Tag: Thames River
Councillors balk at adding more homeless encampment depots
London’s program to provide people who live in homeless encampments with food, water, garbage cleanup and portable washrooms is on shaky ground, after city councillors floated a lifeline until the end of February. Councillors ultimately voted 10-5 at a meeting Tuesday of city council’s strategic priorities and policy committee to endorse letting depots as they […]
New grants incentivize London-area farmers to fight Lake Erie algal blooms
Canadian environmental officials hope a new funding program will entice farmers around London, Ontario, to do more to reduce the algal bloom-causing phosphorus that leaves their farmland. The new Thames […]
Trail system at Sifton Bog expands as developers sell land
The London regionâs conservation authority bought a parcel of land beside the Sifton Bog from two local developers.
Research project could influence freshwater management in the Great Lakes and around the world
Algae blooms in the Great Lakes are becoming increasingly common. This is why a doctoral student at the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research chose to focus her research on […]
Oudshoorn: Poverty, addiction, mental illness not causes of homelessness, success is
Visible homelessness persists at crisis levels within London.
Ontario mayors seek mental-health law reviews: ‘Absolute crisis’
Ontario Big City Mayors are asking the province to review mental-health laws and whether to expand the scope of involuntary treatment for people who are addicted to drugs and live on the streets. The organization that represents 29 mayors of cities with more than 100,000 people say they are taking no position on treatment given […]
Dozens displaced as encampment near Blackfriars Bridge shut down
Outreach workers say the city has put lives at greater risk by shutting down a large homeless encampment along the Thames River in London
Bus rapid transit: The very latest on construction, expected completion date
Reporter Jack Moulton takes a look at where things stand, and what comes next.
Unsteady funding for conservation is made worse by competing priorities
It seems a seesaw battle between a wholistic approach of preserving habitat, and a species-by-species, individual-by-individual plan
As winter nears, coyotes get ‘more brazen’ – and cat owners more nervous
Neighbours in London’s west end report seeing coyotes out in the open and prowling residential backyards early in the morning and at night.Â