Tag: Western
Who is working to preserve and restore wetlands in Metro Detroit? | Great Lakes Now
By Erica Hobbs, Planet Detroit
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Wetlands don’t often come to mind when thinking about major metropolitan cities like Detroit. Bogs, marshes, vernal pools, and swamps contrast starkly with the city’s skyscrapers, roads, and industrial plants, and up to 90 percent of the area’s wetlands along the Detroit River have been lost since European settlement.
London’s leveled-up NASH Cup will now provide Olympic squash springboard
The NASH Cup has leveled up at an interesting time. The 16th annual Professional Squash Association stop in London is now considered a âCopperâ world tour event with more points available and US$25,000 purses for both the menâs and womenâs draws. That boost has happened as the sport prepares to take part in the Olympics […]
Judge gives plaintiffs a week extension as algal bloom grows again – Great Lakes Commission
Ohio-based plaintiffs seeking strict limits on agricultural runoff allowed into Lake Erie streams and tributaries have been given until Monday to tell a U.S. District Judge how they would like […]
PHOTOS: Western Invitational university golf tournament
Some of the best university golfers in Ontario were at the St. Thomas Golf and Country Club on Monday for the Western Invitational, which drew 60 men and 40 women from 11 schools. Photos by LFP’s Derek Ruttan druttan@postmedia.com
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.