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Bush party murder trial: Pathologist describes teen’s fatal gunshot wound
It was one gunshot that killed Josue Silva.
NWMO wants to talk about its other nuclear waste problem with SON
The Nuclear Waste Management Organization wants to keep talking with Saugeen Ojibway Nation about what to do with more than spent nuclear fuel within its traditional territory. South Bruce, which is within that traditional territory, voted on Monday in favour of being the host site for an underground vault to store Canada’s used nuclear fuel, […]
Goderich approves $50,000 in funding for Menesetung Bridge
GODERICH – Goderich council has agreed to provide $50,000 in funding for concrete repairs at the Menesetung Bridge. Council approved a motion to provide the money at its Oct. 21 in response to a September request from the Menesetung Bridge Association’s Michael Dawson, who requested funding of $150,000 from the town over three years. In […]
South Bruce DGR opposition promises to keep fighting
A group opposed to burying high-level nuclear waste in South Bruce says it will keep fighting because having just 78 more votes in favour than against the project in Monday’s referendum isn’t a “compelling” demonstration of community support. Bill Noll, the co-chair of Protect Our Waterways – No Nuclear Waste, said in an interview that that’s […]
Five charged for bank heists in Southwestern Ontario, provincewide
More than $2 million was stolen, but none of the money has been recovered, police said
Animal shelters struggle with challenges
By Victor Wooddell Capital News Service Animal shelters in Michigan are at capacity, even while facing staff and resource shortages. According to experts, more animals are being abandoned and too few pet owners are having their animals spayed or neutered. In 2020, adoption rates soared due to pandemic-related stay-at-home orders across the country, according to […]
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Does concentration of animal feeding in U.S. farms represents a biohazard?
Research highlights worker, community and global impacts
South Bruce voters narrowly approve being host to nuclear waste
By a thin majority, the answer in South Bruce was yes. The referendum question — Are you in favour of the Municipality of South Bruce declaring South Bruce to be a willing host for the Nuclear Waste Management Organization’s proposed Deep Geological Repository (DGR)? resulted in 51.2 per cent, or 1,604, of voters saying yes, […]
London’s courts are clogged. Two veteran lawyers aim to ease the backlog
Two veteran London lawyers are launching a new mediation business, a bid to speed up resolutions to legal disputes amid notoriously long delays in bring lawsuits to trial. Â
What we know about retirement home that is suddenly closing
All we know and donât know about the abrupt closing of small Norwich retirement home amid a police fraud investigation.