Tag: Thames River
Outbursts over encampment forces evacuation of council chambers
A heated discussion about the future of a homeless encampment near downtown London caused politicians to evacuate chambers and a woman to be barred from city hall.
Accused says she was asked to lure drug dealer to her apartment
Ashley Bourget said she’s putting her safety and reputation at risk by taking the stand at her first-degree murder trial. “I’m afraid of retaliation from the mob,” she testified Tuesday as the defence began its case in the Superior Court jury trial now in its fifth week. “I’m also afraid of what people on the […]
As council weighs homeless camp’s fate, resident wants to stay put
As London city council is set to weigh in on a proposal to clear one of the city’s largest homeless camps, people living there and residents who live on a nearby street are unsure about what could come next. A city council committee backed Ward 1 Coun. Hadleigh McAlister’s emergency motion to close the city-run […]
Officials turn to public for cash to save more endangered baby turtles
London-area conservation officials are eyeing an expansion of its incubation lab for endangered baby turtles and seeking donor funds to make it happen this spring.
Accused’s violent poem entered as evidence at drug dealer murder trial
Ashley Bourget called her poem “Small Child” – but it contained a big, glaring comment that kept it out of a jailhouse poetry-writing competition. Instead, her creative writing from October 2023 while she was behind bars became evidence at her first-degree murder trial in the death of high-level drug dealer Grant Norton. “Now that I’m […]