Tag: university
Olympic berth on the line this weekend for 17-year-old Julia Tunks
Julia Tunks has some added motivation heading into the Canadian track and field championships at Montreal this week.
Police probing alleged animal poisoning at London Pride event
Police are investigating after organizers say animals from a petting zoo may have been poisoned at a weekend Pride event at a London park. Six animals from Little Hobby Hill Farm, a petting zoo in Salford, were part of Oakridge Pride, a volunteer-run, family-focused celebration for LGBTQ communities at Oakridge Optimist Park on Saturday organized […]
Task force eyed to set city councillor pay for ‘full time task’
Several familiar city hall arguments resurfaced during a Monday committee meeting, and politicians are seeking to resolve them in a review of their pay. Alongside voting to cut their own expense limit by 10 per cent, councillors revisited the part-time versus full-time council debate, and whether they should be paid more for the committees and […]
Gateway welcomes Western medical students
GODERICH – The Gateway Centre of Excellence in Rural Health (CERH) welcomed four students from Western University’s Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry on May 29. The day was part of a week-long visit the medical students spent in rural areas to tour the local hospital and explore rural medicine. At Gateway CERH’s office, this […]
Paulgaard: Local stories, told with integrity, should matter to us all
In small town Alberta where I grew up, it was common to see headlines such as The case of the cow in the second-storey window and Coyote captured in town in the local paper.