Tag: Population
Sweet relief for overcrowded London school amid boards’ building boom
A nearly completed new addition will help ease enrolment pressures this fall at one of the largest and most crowded schools in the Thames Valley District school board. The project at Eagle Heights elementary school on Oxford Street in London was tendered to Bronnenco Construction Ltd. at the end of May 2023 and was expected […]
Complaint about Coun. Susan Stevenson’s social media posts dismissed
A London city councillorâs social media posts about sex workers, the homeless and agencies helping them may be considered controversial, but she didnât violate city councilâs code of conduct, the city’s integrity commissioner has ruled. Anova, which provides shelter and counselling for abused women, and several homelessness and addictions advocates filed a complaint against Ward […]
Workers start dismantling dangerous homeless encampment near rail line
An environmental cleanup company has begun dismantling a homeless encampment in Woodstock deemed a hazard because of its location near a rail line, a city official says. Woodstock was alerted âsome time agoâ by CN Rail police about an encampment at the end of Clarke Street South that created concern for the safety of people […]
A tiny, rare butterfly gets a chance to thrive again in Michigan | Bridge Michigan
The Poweshiek skipperling was once common in Midwest prairies but the population has plummeted. Zoos in Michigan, Minnesota and Canada are working to breed the species and release adults back into the wild….