STRATFORD – A request for information came during the presentation of the Perth County Forestry Inspector report.  The report states that in September, Marvin Smith, forestry inspector, completed five inspections in response to the submission of a Notice of Intent and three inspections in response to a request from a landowner. According to the report, […]

Immigration Minister Lena Diab has extended the pause on new applications through the Private Sponsorship for Refugees Program for another 12 months as the department works to clear its backlog. New ministerial instructions were published in the Canada Gazette on Friday, along with a notice on the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada website. The pause […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The clock is ticking for the U.S. government to open up its files on Jeffrey Epstein. After months of rancor and recriminations, Congress has passed and President Donald Trump has signed legislation compelling the Justice Department to give the public everything it has on Epstein — and it has to be […]

Amid a surge in users, the Aurora Public Library could have to make some tough decisions if they do not get a financial boost due to inflation in the Town’s 2026 Municipal Budget.  Jodi Marr, CAO of the Aurora Public Library (APL), made the Library’s case at last week’s Budget Meeting where she said the […]

Three Rivers council unanimously voted to appoint a staff member as the new protection of privacy coordinator on November 10. The town is appointing the new clerk of council, Andrea MacDonald, to the position. “There has been a vacancy since the retirement of the previous clerk,” CAO John Jamieson said, noting the position is typically […]

Manitoba’s home-care system, once considered a national model, has been weakened by years of policy shifts, under-resourcing, staffing shortages and poorly executed reforms, according to a new report released Thursday by the Manitoba Nurses Union (MNU). But the provincial government says many of the problems highlighted in the report stem from decisions made years ago […]

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The number of Palestinians dying in Israeli custody surged to nearly 100 people since the start of the war in Gaza, according to a report published Monday by a human rights group that says systematic violence and denial of medical care at prisons and detention centers contributed to many of […]

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The number of Palestinians dying in Israeli custody surged to nearly 100 people since the start of the war in Gaza, according to a report published Monday by a human rights group that says systematic violence and denial of medical care at prisons and detention centers contributed to many of […]

ADELAIDE METCALFE – Council approved a new policy governing the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI) and received an update on the School Road Landfill capacity during its November 3 meeting. CAO Morgan Calvert presented the Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence Policy, explaining that it positions the township ahead of pending provincial regulations. “In 2024, […]

British Columbia’s Attorney General says she’s “deeply disturbed” that the social media company X has filed a legal challenge against an order to remove a non-consensual intimate image from the internet.  Nikki Sharma says the social media firm is challenging a “clear order” from B.C.’s Civil Resolution Tribunal to remove an image from its platform […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge on Wednesday denied a request by the Rose Bowl Operating Co. and the City of Pasadena for a temporary restraining order in their bid to keep UCLA football games at the Rose Bowl. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge James Chalfant said the parties had not demonstrated an emergency that […]

ARMERO, Colombia (AP) — Martha Lucía López released the boat into the river alongside hundreds of others with the faces of missing children, in one last attempt to find her son, or rather, to pray that he would find her. Her son, Sergio Melendro, was one of hundreds of children reported missing when a volcanic […]