Tag: World
Dave Mounsey Memorial Fund donates defibrillator to Goderich Regional Airport
GODERICH – The Dave Mounsey Memorial Fund continues to make area facilities safer by donating life-saving defibrillators. That community work continued Friday, Oct. 25, when memorial fund co-founder Patrick Armstrong visited the Goderich Regional Airport with a new defibrillator that will be installed at the facility. It was the 199th defibrillator the Dave Mounsey Memorial […]
South Bruce DGR opposition promises to keep fighting
A group opposed to burying high-level nuclear waste in South Bruce says it will keep fighting because having just 78 more votes in favour than against the project in Monday’s referendum isn’t a “compelling” demonstration of community support. Bill Noll, the co-chair of Protect Our Waterways – No Nuclear Waste, said in an interview that that’s […]
A Foraged Great Lakes Woodland Chai Tea
This story is a part of “A Year in the Wild Kitchen of the Great Lakes,” a series in partnership with expert forager Lisa M. Rose, with the mission of nurturing a deeper connection with the natural world through foraging. To get started with your foraging journey, begin here with our “Framework to Sustainable and Safe Practices.”
As the season shifts and the air chills, I find myself drawn to the warmth and sustenance that the wild foods of fall offer — from roots to mushrooms to nuts to herbs — and take great satisfaction in concocting nourishing recipes for my family and friends.
Spooky Lake Superior: The SS Kamloops
Spooky Lakes: 25 Strange and Mysterious Lakes That Dot Our Planet is a new book by Geo Rutherford. Below is an adapted excerpt from her New York Times best seller, all about Lake Superior. Follow Geo on TikTok or Instagram for more content on spooky lakes.
Sports notes: London Beefeaters, Western and Fanshawe cross-country
A collection of news and notes from across the Southwestern Ontario sports scene
Views on safety of nuclear fuel DGRs
NWMO DGR safety statements irresponsible I am writing about the Deep Geological Registry (DGR) proposed for Teeswater by the NWMO as a way of managing all of Canada’s high-energy nuclear waste. I can no longer remain silent as I have witnessed the reckless way that the NWMO has [dealt with] the public and municipal leaders […]
Friends speak out after death of man, 33, found unresponsive in London jail
The man who died after he was found unresponsive in his cell at Londonâs troubled provincial jail faced previous trauma and abuse in the justice system, but never stopped trying to improve his life, his friends say.  Friends have identified the man found unresponsive at the Elgin-Middlesex Detention Centre on Thursday as Matthew Bouvier, 33, […]
Honouring our Local Veterans ceremony brings family together
West Coast artist Helen Downing-Hunter was just a newborn when the RAF Lancaster her father James Downing was piloting crashed in July 1944 while conducting nighttime air operations against Stuttgart, Germany, during the Second World War. But now, some 80 years later, it is through her late father’s war heritage that she has reconnected with family in Owen […]
Tree dedicated in Owen Sound in honour of Sharif Rahman
As a brisk autumn winds lashed the lone oak tree newly planted on the south lawn of the Julie McArthur Regional Recreation Centre, its tawny-coloured leaves rustled and swayed vigorously, but remained attached. It showed why the oak is a symbol of longevity, strength, stability, endurance and justice, and reinforced the decision to plant it in memory […]
Pearson: Single act of defiance saved the world
It was 62 years ago this month when I looked out our kitchen window in Calgary to see our neighbour operating a backhoe, digging a hole in his backyard.