Tag: Local News
Health board chair lays out priorities for 2022
Local health board chair Sue Paterson said the health unit is preparing to resume normal operations as part of post-pandemic recovery this year. The mayor of Hanover was returned by acclamation as chair for a second term at the Feb. 4 Grey Bruce Health Unit board of health meeting. She looked ahead in an interview […]
London man charged in downtown SUV plunge: police
It’s fortunate nobody was hurt when an SUV plunged nearly four metres onto a downtown road Monday afternoon, London police say. Emergency crews responded about 3:30 p.m. Monday to Wellington Street, between York and Horton streets, after an SUV travelling east on Bathurst Street went through a fence and guardrail before landing on its roof, […]
FULL COVERAGE: Chaos, frustration at Southwestern Ontario border crossings
Anti-vaccine mandate and anti-government protesters have since Monday evening slowed or outright blocked traffic at the Ambassador Bridge border crossing between Windsor and Detroit – North America’s busiest trade point – and that has created spillover trouble at the Blue Water Bridge crossing two hours east, at Sarnia. It’s all an echo of the anti-government […]
Havoc at Windsor’s Ambassador Bridge spills over to Sarnia border crossing
Highway 402 traffic cameras showed transport trucks backed up beyond Airport Road in Sarnia at about noon Tuesday on the highway’s westbound lanes approaching the Blue Water Bridge.
Business, political leaders denounce ongoing Ambassador Bridge blockade
WINDSOR – Protests for the third day in a row at the Ambassador Bridge brought traffic at the busiest border crossing in North America to a virtual standstill Tuesday, with business and political leaders denouncing the ongoing truck blockade as unfairly hurtful to Canada’s economy and citizens. The head of the Windsor chamber of commerce […]