Agriculture Owen Sound Sun Times

Farmers keeping an eye on Trump

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Farmers are feeling uncertain and concerned about the incoming Trump administration in the United States, farm groups say.  President-elect Donald Trump has proposed a 10 per cent universal tariff on all imports into the U.S., or even 20 per cent. He wants to reopen the free trade agreement between Canada, Mexico and the U.S. too.  […]

Great Lakes Now Lake Superior Michigan Ontario

Public hearing draws on big questions about Upper Peninsula copper mining

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Public hearing draws on big questions about Upper Peninsula copper mining

By Izzy Ross, Interlochen Public Radio

This coverage is made possible through a partnership with IPR and Grist, a nonprofit independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future.

In Gogebic County, on the western end of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, towering old-growth evergreens carpet the landscape as it rolls down toward the deep blue of Lake Superior.

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Owen Sound Sun Times

Supreme Court denies SON request to appeal lower court decisions

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The Supreme Court of Canada has denied the Saugeen Ojibway Nation’s request to appeal parts of lower court decisions against its multi-billion-dollar Bruce Peninsula land claim and Aboriginal title to territorial waters around the peninsula.  But with the appeal denied, SON now plans to move ahead with seeking remedies after the lower courts did agree that […]

London Free Press

Strathroy council rejects proposed flag ban that irked LGBTQ group

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STRATHROY – Politicians here overwhelmingly rejected restrictions proposed by a town council colleague that would have banned non-government flags on municipally owned land, a possibility that rankled LGBTQ community members. In an 8-1 vote Monday night, politicians turfed Coun. Brian Derbyshire’s bid to allow only municipal, provincial and federal flags on flagpoles on municipal properties, […]

London Free Press

Father gets 21 years, mother 18, for ‘relentless’ abuse of children

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The family home, the judge said, was “a house of horrors.” Superior Court Justice Thomas Heeney, in his decision to sentence two parents to long prison sentences for routinely sexually and physically abusing their four children during an 18-year period, said the facts of the case were “the most egregious that I have encountered during […]

London Free Press

Children’s Hospital opens clinic to give RSV shot to babies

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The Children’s Hospital is trying to head off respiratory virus season, launching an immunization clinic to help protect infants from a cold-like infection that lands some in hospital.  The just-opened immunization program is targeting respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a seasonal disease that triggers mild symptoms in most but can be a particular threat to infants in […]

London Free Press

Two more sex-related charges laid against Southwestern Ontario doctor

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CHATHAM – Two more sex-related charges involving a minor were laid against a Chatham-Kent Health Alliance emergency physician. Robert Nathanial Wismer was arrested on Oct. 25 and charged with sexual assault and sexual interference involving a minor, according to court documents. According to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario website, the two new […]