7 d. ago Nonprofit trust launches $10M campaign to buy, protect natural lands

The Thames Talbot Land Trust is launching a fundraising campaign to collect $10 million to buy 1,500 acres of land in Southwestern Ontario – an effort that’s already well over half-way there. The Nature Nearby campaign, launched Monday, has quietly raised $6.5 million over the last two years, all part of an effort that’s already […]

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1 week ago Two truckers charged with smuggling meth into Southwestern Ontario

A two-person team of truck drivers was arrested at the Blue Water Bridge and accused of smuggling drugs over the Michigan-Sarnia area border.

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1 week ago Children’s author Robert Munsch donates letters, story drafts to Guelph Public Library

Children’s author Robert Munsch is donating his stash of story drafts, publisher notes and fan letters to the Guelph Public Library. The southwestern Ontario library said the collection will offer a rare glimpse into Munsch’s decades-long career, during which he penned bedtime classics including “The Paper Bag Princess,” “Love You Forever” and “Mortimer.” It will […]

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2 w. ago LIVE Q+A: What is the future of Southwestern Ontario's auto sector?

Norman De Bono has covered the auto industry for decades and will answer your questions on Thursday

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2 w. ago RECAP Q+A: What is the future of Southwestern Ontario's auto sector?

Norman De Bono has covered the auto industry for decades and will answer your questions on Thursday

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2 w. ago This Southwestern Ontario golf course could be yours for a song in tax sale

Ever dreamed of owning a golf course on the cheap? Norfolk County may have a deal for you.

Economics

2 w. ago ‘We got him’: B.C. man charged in 4 violent sex assaults in Ontario from 1997

A British Columbia man is facing several charges almost 30 years after four females were violently sexually assaulted in southwestern Ontario, police say.

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2 w. ago Three decades on, police make arrest in string of sexual assaults

A man living in British Columbia is facing 15 charges in connection with a series of violent sexual assaults that took place in Southwestern Ontario communities nearly 30 years ago, police say. Wednesday, Ontario Provincial Police detailed four separate incidents that happened between March and August of 1997 – in Lambton County, Kent County and […]

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2 w. ago The LFP Podcast, ep. 220: Another body blow for Southwestern Ontario's auto sector

Rachel Gilbert spoke withJonathan Juha about the General Motors decision to stop making the BrightDrop electric van and the future of Cami

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3 w. ago GM pulls plug on electric van, clouding future of Cami auto plant

Southwestern Ontario’s auto sector received another blow on Tuesday after General Motors (GM) Canada announced it was ending the production of its BrightDrop electric-vehicle cargo van, which was assembled at the Cami plant in Ingersoll.  The company said the decision to end production is the result of poor sales of the vehicle, of which GM […]

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