Tag: Staff
The lonely Lake Superior caribou and a lesson in limits | Great Lakes Now
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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Another parent voices safety concerns over high school’s ‘large-scale’ renovations
Another concerned parent has raised safety concerns about ongoing construction at West Elgin secondary school after her child was injured this fall after slipping on a wet floor.
Grey County wants to talk affordable housing at spring meeting
Grey County will host a meeting in the spring to encourage affordable, near-market rental and attainable housing development. It owns lands in Markdale and Durham which could be used for affordable housing and county staff are looking at potential incentives to get it built, a report to council Oct. 10 says. Among those to be […]
‘Strong mayor’ powers needed to speed affordable housing: City staff
Strong mayor powers could soon become a more common tool at London city hall, with the suggestion it could get affordable housing built faster.
Executives resign as London Health Sciences Centre shakeup continues
London Health Sciences Centre is losing two key members of its leadership team, including the head of Children’s Hospital, the latest change in the top ranks of the hospital put under provincial supervision just weeks ago. Nash Syed, the vice-president of Children’s Hospital and women’s services at LHSC, has tendered his resignation effective Jan. 3, […]
Man calls on Grey County to act on local groundwater threat
Thorsten Arnold warned Grey County council Thursday that it must act to avoid widespread drinking water contamination due to a combination of local factors. This area’s karst geology is well known, with its shallow soil layer over permeable bedrock in places which reduces aquifer protection. The geology includes sinkholes and fissures which allow surface contaminants to […]
Nursing home resident hit with fraud worries, big rent increase: Family
An elderly woman living at a Southwestern Ontario retirement home where police allege a fraud duped several people out of more than $50,000 is facing a new stressor, her family says â an increase that would more than double her rent. Miranda Guitard said her husbandâs 90-year-old grandmother, who has been diagnosed with dementia, became […]
Grey County task force seeks to make some busy rural roads safer
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, […]
Big Rig Konnor Smith nets hat-trick as Bears battle back in St. Kitts
If you had a Konnor Smith hat-trick on your Owen Sound Attack 2024-25 bingo card, well, congratulations. The Big Rig turned into the Big Rip Friday night as the Attack captain netted three goals to help Owen Sound (2-3-1-0) come from behind and hand the Niagara IceDogs (4-1-0-0) their first loss of the season, 6-4, […]
ANALYSIS: Why London has no winter homelessness plan beyond Dec. 31
City officials say they’ve got homeless Londoners living outside â more than 180 at last count â covered for the first part of winter.