Tag: money
Ex-employee pleads guilty to defrauding United Way of $300K
CHATHAM â A former United Way of Chatham-Kent employee has pleaded guilty to fraud after the local non-profit agency discovered it had been defrauded of more than $300,000. Veronica Whittal, 49, of Tilbury, entered a guilty plea in a Chatham court on Friday. An agreed statement of facts presented by assistant Crown attorney Kate Bailey […]
‘Don’t be afraid to make mistakes,’ Repair Café repairman says
Paul Vanar bent over his workbench and tinkered with a broken wind-up toy horse, perhaps 75 years old. Lorraine Rutherford brought him the toy to fix. It’s been broken for a long time but its sentimental value was too great to part with it. It belonged to her late husband Jim Rutherford, whom […]
Nursing home resident hit with fraud worries, big rent increase: Family
An elderly woman living at a Southwestern Ontario retirement home where police allege a fraud duped several people out of more than $50,000 is facing a new stressor, her family says â an increase that would more than double her rent. Miranda Guitard said her husbandâs 90-year-old grandmother, who has been diagnosed with dementia, became […]
Grey County task force seeks to make some busy rural roads safer
A Grey County task force proposes to transfer more than 50 kilometres of its urban county roads, bridges and sewers to municipalities and assume and make safer certain increasingly busy rural municipal roads roads in exchange for other county rural roads. County council decided Thursday to receive a report which provided lists of affected roads, […]
Pearce: Going off the grid a growing option – and growing threat
Advances have made it possible for more people to go off the power grid, but it would be better if they stayed on it, a researcher says
This Historic Ship Runs on Coal. Can It Find a New Way Forward? | Great Lakes Now
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Transport minister visits London, details $45M in rail safety work nationwide
The federal government is investing more than $45 million in improving railway safety across Canada, transportation minister Anita Anand announced in London on Friday.
Q+A: Why Canada Life snagged London arena naming rights
Friday marks the official renaming of Londonâs downtown arena, which is leaving behind its Budweiser Gardens moniker for a new name: Canada Life Place.
Thanksgiving food drive enters home stretch with ground to make up
As the Thanksgiving food drive enters the home stretch, the London Food Bank is noticing an increase in donations, one of its co-directors says. Glen Pearson said after a slow start to the drive that began Oct. 4, he expected tough economic times finally would curtail donations, but that suddenly changed. “Some of our food […]
Silver Cs donate funds, food to Salvation Army Owen Sound food bank
The Owen Sound Salvation Army’s Thanksgiving Food Drive received a big boost on Thursday from a group of local retirees. The Silver Cs Caring Canadians made a donation of 7,538 pounds of food and $3,149 in funds that the members gathered after holding collection drives at area grocery stores in recent weeks. It was the second […]