Two Ontario sites deemed ‘safe’ for nuclear waste: report

The northwestern Ontario site being considered for a nuclear waste repository is safe for that use, according to the industry-funded organization tasked with creating a repository. So is the other site on the shortlist for the proposed deep geological repository, according to the Nuclear Waste Management Organization. Read the full story by MidlandToday. Read the…

Two multi-vehicle crashes on Highway 401 as winter blast hits region

Stretches of Highway 401 west of London were closed Friday as police investigated several crashes, including two multi-vehicle collisions within an hour of each other. Seven vehicles, including four transport trucks, collided at about 10:55 a.m. in the eastbound lanes of Highway 401 near kilometre marker 125 in Chatham-Kent. Seven people were inside one of […]

Landlords push back as city hall mulls ‘renoviction’ bylaw

London city hall is one step closer to implementing municipal rules to curb renovictions, taking a page from other cities as it prepares to present a draft bylaw later this spring.   The new bylaw to reduce or prevent renovictions – the practice of forcing renters out of their units for major repairs, then making […]

Jury selection set to start in fatal Girl Guides collision trial

Jury selection is expected to begin Monday morning in the criminal negligence trial of a woman charged in a crash that killed a young girl and injured other members of her Girl Guides troupe.   Petronella McNorgan is expected to plead not guilty to criminal negligence causing death and several counts of criminal negligence causing […]