Tag: Population
New Goodwill Donation Centre diverting waste, creating jobs
Kincardine’s new Goodwill Donation Centre is successfully collecting unwanted items for resale. “We are committed to doing more to steward goods away from landfills, ensure access to affordable goods for our communities, and create green jobs by expanding our work in recycling and the circular economy,” said Bev Kobe, president and CEO of Goodwill Industries, […]
The Poweshiek skipperling has disappeared from most of Michigan’s prairies. Now scientists are raising them in zoos for release back into the wild. | Great Lakes Echo
By Ruth Thornton Standing next to a converted hoop house in one of the back areas of John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids, David Pavlik points to a line of small cloth-covered cages filled with yellow black-eyed Susans and small orange butterflies. “These cages out here are females that have already bred in the facility,” […]
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Ontario mayors seek mental-health law reviews: ‘Absolute crisis’
Ontario Big City Mayors are asking the province to review mental-health laws and whether to expand the scope of involuntary treatment for people who are addicted to drugs and live on the streets. The organization that represents 29 mayors of cities with more than 100,000 people say they are taking no position on treatment given […]
Changes planned to prevent overcrowding at Dundalk schools
Dundalk is growing and its two elementary schools are already overcrowded so the Bluewater District School Board is making moves to make room. There’s a new junior kindergarten to Grade 8 school and $28 million of funding on the way, but not until enrolment at the town’s two schools — Dundalk and Proton Community School […]
Growing Woodstock’s push for more land nears final approval
A land swap that would give Woodstock more room is a step closer to final approval after Oxford politicians approved the deal’s terms.
Letters to the Editor: October 18, 2024
Push to defund CBC pure politics
LETTER: Putting pencil to paper on proposed DGR
Teeswater in South Bruce is in the running for the high-level nuclear waste burial site for all of Canada. Our council has already signed the hosting agreement and the big prize will be $418 million over 138 years, if South Bruce residents and council agree to accept this waste for short-term population growth and job […]
Letters to the Editor: October 16, 2024
Keep credit card debt under control
Push for possible heritage designation of London city hall stalls
London city council had a tepid response to a suggestion to study protecting the interior of city hall. Council voted 9-6 at Tuesday afternoon’s council meeting to ignore a request by the community advisory committee for the city to consider designating city hall a heritage building. Councillors Anna Hopkins, Corrine Rahman, Sam Trosow, David Ferreira, […]
Oxford partners with non-profit to help maintain homeless shelter services
Oxford County is reinforcing its bond with a non-profit organization dedicated to tackling homelessness.