Tag: Local News
Officials tight-lipped on work status of charged police college instructor
The ministry that oversees police training in Ontario won’t say whether an instructor at the Aylmer police college charged after a gun was fired during training remains on the job.
Home County cancellation underscores local non-profit ‘crisis’: Leader
The abrupt cancellation of next year’s Home County Music and Arts Festival because of financial and volunteer recruitment issues is an example of the “crisis” the non-profit sector is facing post-pandemic, the head of one advocacy group says. The Home County board has announced the 2024 festival is being scrapped as the organization makes serious […]
LIVE: Nathaniel Veltman murder trial, Day 24
Follow the live blog below for up-to-the-minute coverage from the murder trial of Nathaniel Veltman, charged with killing four members of the Afzaal family in London The trial is expected to resume Monday morning. It was paused on Friday after a pair of jurors fell ill, interrupting a week-plus of Veltman’s at-times-riveting testimony. To read […]
London homeowners aren’t the only ones pinched by spiking interest rates
The Middlesex-London health unit is making a plea to both city hall and Middlesex County to let it use budget surpluses to help pay down a variable rate loan from its relocation downtown. According to correspondence going before city council’s corporate services committee Monday, the Middlesex-London health unit likely faces a deficit by the end […]
SON map project to show its connections to land, water
Saugeen and Nawash members are helping to create a map that shows how Saugeen Ojibway Nation people have used territorial lands and how much their lives are connected to the land and water. The land use and occupancy mapping project has heard from at least 40 SON members so far. Interviews started Oct. 21 at […]