Tag: Provincial
Councillors call for end of 39-person homeless camp in park after fire
London city councillors have endorsed dismantling a homeless encampment and on-site service depot after a Sunday night fire and explosion at a park. Members of city council’s community and protective services committee unanimously backed an emergency motion at a Monday meeting to order city staff to help relocate 39 people living in the encampment at […]
Local MPP looking into loss of program supporting vulnerable adults
‘. . .it is time for our community and government leaders to take immediate action to reinstate these critical protections,’ Jennifer Miller said.
Autoworkers’ long history of protecting our environment
Great Lakes Moment is a monthly column written by Great Lakes Now Contributor John Hartig. Publishing the author’s views and assertions does not represent endorsement by Great Lakes Now or Detroit PBS.
April 22, 1970 was the first Earth Day. On that day, two boats — one with an American flag representing American autoworkers and one with a Canadian flag representing Canadian autoworkers — met in the middle of the Detroit River to hold a wake, symbolizing the death of the river from pollution.
Stolen car crashed after driving through school yard as kids played: Police
A London man is charged after police say a stolen vehicle was driven through a school yard while children were playing nearby.
Sweetness overload during Maple Weekend at Nicholls sugar shack
There are few things more Canadian than queuing in nearly freezing weather for freshly churned ice cream topped with maple syrup from nearby trees. That’s exactly what people were doing Sunday at the Nicholls’ family farm sugar shack in Grey Highlands. The family-run farm hosted its second Maple Weekend festival, which included bush tours, wagon […]