Owen Sound Sun Times

Walk for Wenjack on August 15 in Cape Croker Park

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On Thursday, Aug. 15, at Cape Croker Park in Neyaashiinigmiing, people will gather to Walk for Wenjack. Bruce County and its community partners are hosting the fundraising and awareness-raising event named in memory of Chanie Wenjack who, in 1966, ran away from Cecilia Jeffrey Residential School in Kenora, Ontario. He walked for 36 hours along […]

London Free Press

Can London officials pinpoint source of deadly legionnaires’ disease outbreak?

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Public health officials are promising an update Wednesday afternoon, two weeks after the first reported cases, about an outbreak of a rare disease that has hospitalized nearly two dozen people and killed one. The Middlesex-London Health Unit, with help from Public Health Ontario, is in the midst of investigating an outbreak of legionnaires’ disease – […]

Agriculture Great Lakes Now

How many manure spills is too many? St. Croix County residents scrutinize big farm’s new owner | Great Lakes Now

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How many manure spills is too many? St. Croix County residents scrutinize big farm’s new owner

This article, first posted here, was republished with permission from Wisconsin Watch.

By Bennet Goldstein, Wisconsin Watch

Gregg Wolf vows “to put a new step forward” on “a new day” at a northwest Wisconsin dairy.

Appleton-based Breeze Dairy Group, where he serves as CEO, purchased Emerald Sky Dairy in March, shortly after the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources approved the St.

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