Tag: Strike
London officer cleared in arrest of man left with broken nose
Ontarioâs police watchdog has cleared a London officer of any wrongdoing in the arrest of a man whose nose was broken.
Detective details how DNA, genealogy and police solved eight-year mystery
His name was Garnet Michael Nelson. His long way home is finally over. Itâs taken eight years to confirm the homeless drifter’s identity and to end a nagging mystery about the body found on the beach at Port Albert, north of Goderich in October 2016. At the time the body was found, police had a […]
Police seek luxury car after bullets strike Woodstock home
Woodstock police are looking for a black sedan after shots were fired into a home on Monday. There were no injuries, police said. A report of shots being fired brought officers to the Harcourt Crescent/Upper Thames Drive area, where they found the home hit with the bullet holes, police said. The home is located in […]
Pickets delay girl’s appointment at Western University’s Elborn College: Father
A London man is calling for striking Western University workers to cool the rhetoric on the picket line after an incident involving his wife and three-year-old daughter.
Dyer: No hope for Israeli hostages under Netanyahu
Netanyahu is Israelâs curse, but he and his strategy are safe at least until the U.S. election in November, and a lot longer if Trump wins then.
Tension flares as Western University closes campus roads amid ongoing strike
As frustration mounts over bumper-to-bumper traffic near Western Universityâs campus, striking workers and the school are nowhere near reaching an agreement, a union representative says.
Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP Byers won’t be seeking re-election
There will be a new Member of Provincial Parliament for the riding of Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound after the next provincial election. Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound MPP Rick Byers announced on Tuesday that he will not be running again. Byers, who was elected MPP of the riding in the 2022 provincial election, announced his decision not to run to […]
SEE IT: 101-yard opening kickoff return paces Western Mustangs to 52-21 win
Roman Campanaro called fielding the opening kickoff in front of a big home football crowd “nerve-wracking.” Sixteen seconds and 101 yards later, he was celebrating in the end zone. âI just tried to calm myself down,â the Mustangs fill-in return man said after his first U Sports score in a 52-21 victory over winless Carleton […]
A spectacular failure: The “Salt Combines” of Huron
Peter McEwan and Sam Platt’s discovery of salt in the Maitland River flats in May 1866 ignited a salt boom in Southwestern Ontario. A lot of southern Ontario was on the Michigan salt bed that stretched from Kincardine to Windsor and over to central Michigan. It was an extraordinary find of an inexhaustible mineral vital […]