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Wellness and recovery centre in Owen Sound operating at capacity
Less than six months after it opened, the Brightshores Wellness and Recovery Centre has reached its capacity of 45 patients. Ann Ford, Chief Executive Officer of Brightshores Health System was at Owen Sound council on Monday for a presentation about advancing health and wellness in its communities, and provided an update on the wellness and […]
Arguments for, against expanding London’s urban growth boundary
As London’s population swells beyond expectation, and the city looks down the barrel of the national housing crisis, there are new questions about available land and its affordability. LFP reporter Jack Moulton takes a look at the city’s urban growth boundary, and why it should or shouldn’t be expanded. WHAT IS THE URBAN GROWTH BOUNDARY? […]
Letters to the Editor: December 4, 2024
King Street will be known as the final battle in our city council and administration’s war against the car.
Site for proposed Catholic high school in north London clears hurdle
A plan to demolish a nearly 150-year-old north London home and build a Catholic high school on the site, a top priority for the fast-growing London-area Catholic board, cleared a key hurdle Tuesday. All five members of city council’s planning and environment committee â councillors Steve Lehman, Shawn Lewis, Peter Cuddy, Elizabeth Peloza and Steven […]
Canada is one step closer to burying nuclear waste in northwestern Ontario
By Fatima Syed, The Narwhal
The Great Lakes News Collaborative includes Bridge Michigan, Circle of Blue, Great Lakes Now at Detroit PBS, Michigan Public and The Narwhal who work together to bring audiences news and information about the impact of climate change, pollution, and aging infrastructure on the Great Lakes and drinking water.
Lowered London minimum ceiling height of six feet moves ahead
A city council committee has given its endorsement to reducing the minimum ceiling height in London to barely more than six feet to align with Ontario’s building code. Councillors voted 3-1 in favour of the tweak to London’s property standards bylaw, reducing the minimum headroom in a home by 10 centimetres to 1.85 metres, or […]
Two suffer life-threatening injuries in London-area crash
Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) is probing a two-car crash north of London late Saturday that sent three people to hospital, including two with life-threatening injuries. An officer attempted to stop a vehicle on Highway 4, near Croydon Drive, in Arva, shortly before 11 p.m. Saturday, Middlesex OPP said in a news release Sunday afternoon. […]
Winter arrives with a wallop as lake-effect squalls cover parts of Grey-Bruce with snow
Warm lakes plus cold air means winter is here. The Ontario Storm Prediction Centre expects the snow squalls blanketing much of the area will continue into Tuesday. Snow squall warnings are in place throughout the region as of Sunday afternoon with snowfall accumulations exceeding 50 cm in parts of Grey-Bruce and Owen Sound this weekend. […]
Space crunch: London eyes lowering minimum headroom in homes to six feet
Watch your head London, the city and the province aren’t looking to raise the roof.