Tag: Local News
Oxenden residents drum up support for local symbol of reconciliation
Charmaine Jenner (Tauchkwe), a self-taught local artist from Neyaashiinigmiing, will have her painting of a crane installed on the old general store in Oxenden as a community-funded symbol of grassroots reconciliation efforts. A group of neighbours are raising $10,000 to commission and install the piece after it was selected by a jury of local residents […]
Police close westbound Hwy. 402 as anti-restrictions convoy hits Sarnia
PLYMPTON-WYOMING – Erin Barry has been all over the province in recent days to participate in the various convoys protesting COVID-19 restrictions. The Wyoming resident made the 650-plus-kilometre drive to Ottawa and stayed there overnight Thursday, sleeping in her car parked next to rows of commercial trucks. “Gorgeous environment,” she said Sunday amid the latest […]
‘Solid’ research shows school closings hurt small communities: advocate
New research supports calls to consider local economic and other impacts before small community schools are shut down, says a group dedicated to saving Southwestern Ontario rural schools.
City councillors should get fixed annual pay increases: task force
An outside committee reviewing pay for London city councillors will suggest predictable, predetermined annual raises in a bid to end yearly squabbling.
Dangerous new opioid mixes surfacing, prompting push for safer supply
“We need to stop criminalizing it and instead offer people the support that they need.”