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The lonely Lake Superior caribou and a lesson in limits | Great Lakes Now

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The lonely Lake Superior caribou and a lesson in limits

By Emma McIntosh, The Narwhal

Emma and photographer Christopher Katsarov Luna spent four days in northwestern Ontario, reporting from the shore of Lake Superior.

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Great Lakes Echo

Automated shuttles provide new mobility options, but coverage concerns remain | Great Lakes Echo

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By Donté Smith Capital News Service Detroit’s streets are becoming a testing ground for future transportation, with automated shuttles like Accessibili-D and Connect AV offering mobility solutions. These shuttles, which started operating this year, help residents, particularly those with limited transportation, access essential destinations such as doctors’ offices and grocery stores. The Connect AV shuttle provides fully […]

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London Free Press

Two seniors killed in separate weekend crashes across London region

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Two seniors are dead after separate crashes on rural Southwestern Ontario roads Saturday, including one involving a pedestrian. A 72-year-old Chatham resident was rushed to hospital, where they later succumbed to their injuries, after a two-vehicle crash in western Elgin County Saturday afternoon. Paramedics, Dutton-Dunwich firefighters and Elgin OPP officers responded to the crash involving […]

Grey County Owen Sound Sun Times

Grey County task force seeks to make some busy rural roads safer

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A Grey County task force proposes to transfer more than 50 kilometres of its urban county roads, bridges and sewers to municipalities and assume and make safer certain increasingly busy rural municipal roads roads in exchange for other county rural roads.  County council decided Thursday to receive a report which provided lists of affected roads, […]

London Free Press

Western University workers ratify new deal, campus roads reopen

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Striking blue-collar workers at Western University have ratified a new deal, effectively ending a six-week job action by the union’s 330 members. Members of CUPE Local 2361 – the union that represents caretakers, landscapers and trade workers at the university – voted in favour of the deal at a meeting Friday morning, vice-president Chris Yates […]