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Kids head back to class as boards manage growth pressures
Bluewater District School Board particularly continues to face escalating enrolment, adding pressure to build more schools and add portables. The Catholic board is facing some challenges too. Bluewater projects average enrolment around 18,500 students, three per cent more than last year. But the board has seen enrolment grow for at least the past four years […]
Family of victim in July shooting seeks aid as ‘Miracle Man’ unable to work
Eduardo (Eddie) Belen is known as the Miracle Man at the hospital.
SIU looking at police traffic stop at Saugeen First Nation
Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit is looking into a Grey Bruce OPP traffic stop at Saugeen First Nation involving an ATV pulling a trailer in which one of the riders suffered serious injuries. The SIU oversees police conduct where there is serious injury, death, the discharge of a firearm at a person or an allegation of […]
Former city politician Maureen Cassidy has been named chief executive at Pillar Nonprofit
Former London city councillor Maureen Cassidy has been named chief executive at Pillar Nonprofit.
Muslim leaders keep close watch as Nathaniel Veltman trial begins
WINDSOR – Leaders of Ontario’s Muslim community say they will be closely watching a multiple-murder and terrorism trial underway in Windsor amid calls to deter violence against their community.