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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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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
Massey’s Indian restaurant leaving core for west London: ‘We didn’t feel safe’
After nearly two decades in downtown London, one of the cityâs top-rated Indian restaurants is moving to the cityâs west end.
Dyer: No matter who wins U.S. election, voters will see little gain
Donald Trump knows he could lose the U.S. election in two weeksâ time and he thinks he knows why. âYou have one issue, you have the issue of abortion,â he said recently on Fox and Friends. âWithout abortion, women love me.â
International student cuts concern Georgian College, Grey County
Georgian College’s president has raised concerns about the federal government’s plans to reduce the number of temporary residents eligible to enter Canada and the impact that is having on colleges and communities, including those in Grey-Bruce. In an Oct. 4 letter to Grey County Warden Brian Milne, the college’s president and CEO, Kevin Weaver, said […]
Downtown’s in flux â again. Can a new city hall blueprint fix it?
A downtown with Canada’s highest office vacancy rate.
Eight months in, little uptake on city hall cash to turn core offices into housing
Eight months after being introduced, London’s subsidy to turn empty office space into homes has a grand total of one project with money committed to it, while one more is publicly known to be in the works. Reporter Jack Moulton takes a look at why uptake has been so tepid in a city flush with […]
Local couple creating biodiversity through public pollinator gardens
Having insects chomp at the plant life in your garden could seem like a downer for some, but for one local couple, it’s a major victory. “People will get upset because something is eating the leaves (of their plants), but we get excited when we see something is eating the leaves because then we’re thinking […]
Witness holds firm under defence questioning at bush-party murder trial
As hard as he tried, Emily Altmannâs defence lawyer couldnât get Rachel Johnson to admit she was in a Snapchat video on her best friendâs phone. Thatâs because, she said repeatedly, it wasnât her. The video in question was found on the cellphone of Altmann’s best friend, Isabella Restrepo, and showed mere seconds of Restrepo […]
Baranyai: Quebec proposal takes health care rationing to new level
If trying to lure doctors to a community smells desperate, reassigning them has the stench of battlefield medicine, Robin Baranyai argues.