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PHOTOS: Celebrating Canada Day in downtown London
Patriotic Londoners turned downtown’s Dundas Place into a sea of red on Monday during Canada Day celebrations. âItâs a great day to come together as friends, families as we reflect on what it means to be Canadian,â said NDP MPP Terence Kernaghan, who represents London North Centre. âI think back to my family when they […]
City waterfront ‘nowhere near’ its potential, local businessman says
It was grey and cool at Owen Sound’s Westside Boat Launch as 12 people in life vests prepared to head out in a dragon boat Sunday. They paddled out past the John D. Leitch, the towering, black-hulled lake freighter moored against the east harbour wall, and tooled around the inner harbour. The Sound Waterfront Festival, […]
Strathroy kids’ railway knocked out in Canada Day crash, teen charged
A teenager is charged with impaired driving after a Canada Day crash into a storage building at a children’s miniature railway in Strathroy-Caradoc.
City firefighters douse encampment fire near elevators
City firefighters extinguished a tent fire amid tall reeds near the harbour’s edge, by the wharf at the grain elevators Sunday afternoon. The call came in at 3:24 p.m., just as firefighters were returning to the fire station from an apartment fire on 3rd Avenue East, which remains under investigation by police and the provincial […]
Police investigate intimate partner violence in Chesley
South Bruce OPP investigated two reports of intimate partner violence in Chesley this long weekend. On Sunday police charged a 23-year-old Chesley resident with assault, assault with a weapon and uttering threats. In an unrelated investigation Saturday, police charged a 70-year-old with breaching firearms regulations and unauthorized possession of firearms. Police provided no other details […]