London Free Press

City council steers new homeless ‘drop-in spaces’ away from main streets

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Politicians have voted to further crack down on where the city’s homeless can lay their head, specifically in business districts. Not only will encampments and service depots for their residents have to be located roughly a football field’s distance from any residential property line, but resting spaces also will be barred from the main streets […]

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 […]