Owen Sound Sun Times

Saugeen Shores Lifesaving Club members heading to world championships in August

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Two Saugeen Shores Lifesaving Club athletes have been selected to represent Canada at the upcoming Lifesaving World Championships in Australia. Team Canada selected Izzy Speiran to join its youth women’s team for the championships in Gold Coast, while Hayden Kaake was chosen for the youth men’s team. Luna Abbott is an alternate for the Canadian […]

London Free Press

City looks to sweeten pot for affordable units, office conversions

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London city hall may offer cash to builders to add affordable units to their projects and increase payments to landlords converting offices to apartments. In two separate proposals to two different city council committees that meet next week, city staff recommend tapping into a $74-million federal government fund to offer increased incentives to developers and […]

Great Lakes Now

As climate change alters lakes, tribes and conservationists fight for the future of spearfishing | Great Lakes Now

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As climate change alters lakes, tribes and conservationists fight for the future of spearfishing

By Melina Walling and John Locher, Associated Press

HAYWARD, Wis. (AP) — Chilly nights on northern Wisconsin’s Chippewa Flowage don’t deter 15-year-old spearfisher Gabe Bisonette. He’s been learning the Ojibwe practice for so long now that when his headlamp illuminates the eye-shine of his quarry, he can communicate the sighting to his dad with hardly a word.

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