Tag: Southwestern Ontario
Lower-speed limit signs going up soon near site of fatal crash: Warden
Signs showing a reduced speed limit will go up within the next three weeks on a stretch of a Southwestern Ontario road where three people were killed in a crash, the county warden says. Three people in travelling in an SUV were killed and two others critically injured when the vehicle collided with a transport […]
Southwestern Ontario construction firm fined $60K after worker’s fatal fall
A Southwestern Ontario construction company has been fined $60,000 after one of their workers fell to their death while building a barn in 2023, provincial officials say. Following a guilty plea in provincial offences court in Woodstock, Hendrik Jan Van Ginkel Construction, located at 324943 Norwich Rd. in Norwich Township in Oxford County, was convicted […]
Astronaut Jeremy Hansen’s message to Canada as Artemis II launched
Before Wednesday’s historic launch of the Artemis II, the Canadian Space Agency broadcast a recorded message from Jeremy Hansen, the Southwestern Ontario astronaut who is a member of the crew on the 10-day mission around the moon. Here’s what the 50-year-old Ingersoll native said in comments that mixed both French and English. “What an honour […]
SEE IT: ‘Scary’ video shows wrong-way driver on highway, police say
The Ontario Provincial Police posted video to social media showing a vehicle driving in the wrong direction on a busy Southwestern Ontario highway. Sunday, the OPP posted the footage, captured by a dashboard camera, which they said showed a pickup truck heading west in the eastbound lanes of Hwy. 403 between Wayne Gretzky Parkway and […]
High winds, rain, cold, snow: Wild late-winter weather set to hit London
Get ready for a wild bit of weather to kick off the work week. London and the surrounding area was under an Environment Canada wind warning on Monday, with winds expected to gust from 70 to 90 kilometres/hour all day and into Tuesday, according to the national weather agency. There was expected to be rain […]