An event started out of the COVID-19 pandemic to give Saugeen Shores and area families a place to enjoy the thrills and chills of Halloween continues to grow. For the third year in a row, the trail meandering around Southampton’s Fairy Lake was alive with youngsters loading up on treats from locals who set up […]
A union representing approximately 55,000 Ontario education workers said Monday its members will walk off the job on Friday despite the government tabling legislation to impose contracts and ban a strike. Laura Walton, president of the Canadian Union of Public Employee’s Ontario School Board Council of Unions, said whether workers continue to protest after Friday […]
An advocate for Ontario’s migrant workers is calling a serious single-vehicle crash near Chatham that sent eight people to hospital – four with serious injuries – a “workplace accident.” The passenger van, driven by a 31-year-old migrant worker, was travelling east from Chatham on Fairview Line early Sunday morning when it reportedly failed to stop for […]
Saugeen Shores police are investigating after a young girl stepped on a piece of wood pierced with nails near a parking area adjacent to the main beach in Port Elgin earlier this month. On Oct. 23, police responded to the beach following reports of a girl stepping on a plank covered in nails while walking. […]
Not all school boards in midwestern Ontario will be affected if CUPE education workers walk off the job across the province Friday.
A St. Thomas man accused of throwing stones at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in London was one of dozens of people profiled in a police intelligence report prepared as the “freedom convoy” protests swept across Canada earlier this year.
The Canadian Union of Public Employees says its approximately 55,000 education workers will stage a provincewide protest Friday, meaning they will be off the job despite the Ontario government tabling legislation to impose contracts and ban a strike. Laura Walton, president of CUPE’s Ontario School Board Council of Unions, says whether workers continue to protest […]
Chatham-Kent police are investigating two serious weekend crashes that sent a total of nine people to hospital, including four by air ambulance. One of the weekend collisions involved a passenger van and the other a motorcycle, police said. Police received a 911 call around 6:47 a.m. Sunday reporting a serious motor vehicle collision on Kent […]
Sue Paterson is back for a third term mayor of Hanover. Paterson easily won the two-person race for the mayor’s seat by receiving 1,881 votes to beat out Rob McKean, who received 446 votes. “I am honoured and deeply humbled that the citizens of Hanover have elected me as mayor for a third term. It’s […]
The Ford government is set to pass legislation that will impose a contract on education support workers, but the union says the workers will strike anyway.
Local school board elections in Grey-Bruce returned four of six incumbents at the Catholic board, and five of nine incumbents returned at the public board. Bruce Grey Catholic District School Board trustees re-elected Monday are Lori DiCastri, the current board chair, in Huron-Kinloss, Brockton Ward 31, Kincardine; Linda Strader, Brockton, Ward 34 and 36; and […]
There’s no shortage of live entertainment hitting London in November. Here’s a roundup of some of the events: DAVID MYLES Juno-winning songwriter David Myles will be at Aeolian Hall Nov. 2. Myles, who won the 2022 Juno for his instrumental album, That Tall Distance, comes to London with his newest album, It’s Only A Little […]
