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Ontario Activates Disaster Recovery Assistance in Southwestern Ontario

Ontario Government Activates Disaster Recovery Assistance to Support Residents in Southwestern Ontario The Ontario government is activating the Disaster Recovery Assistance for Ontarians (DRAO) program in certain areas of southwestern Ontario. The safety of those affected by this natural disaster is the government’s top priority. On August 23, 2023, a […]

Health

Nominations Open For The 2024 Nursing Now Ontario Awards

The fifth annual Nursing Now Ontario Awards (NNOA) is accepting nominations for Ontario-based nurse practitioners (NP), registered nurses (RN) and registered practical nurses (RPN) who have demonstrated high professional standards, superior evidence-based and compassionate clinical practice. Nurses across the province in all health sectors and settings provide quality care to individuals […]

Canadian News

Coast Guard Rescue Boats Set To Close For The Season

The Canadian Coast Guard’s seasonally operated search and rescue stations on the Great Lakes, Georgian Bay, and St. Lawrence River in Ontario are closing on the following dates: November 27: Thunder Bay December 4: Tobermory, Meaford, Goderich December 11: Amherstburg, Port Dover, Port Weller, Cobourg, Kingston These stations will reopen in spring 2024. Rescue boats are designed for open-water use […]

Organizations

Essex Soil & Crop Improvement Association Annual Meeting on Dec. 7

The Essex Soil and Crop Improvement Association (ESCIA) is having its 2023 annual meeting on Thursday, December 7, 2023, from 9:00 am until 3:00 pm.  Door registration starts at 8:30 am.  Please preregister by December 5 by email mdick@erca.org, or call 519-259-1461.  An interesting and informative schedule has been planned that […]

Books

49th Shelf: Misfortune and Fame

Misfortune and Fame 10 Reasons You Don’t Want to be Rich (or Famous) by (author) Paul Berton Paul Berton takes aim at the waste and excess of consumer culture with a lively and satire-laced exposé of the rich, famous and totally miserable. There is little argument that having enough money to […]

Schools

School Board Seeks Community Representatives For School Naming

The Greater Essex County District School Board is seeking 2 creative and open-minded individuals to serve as community representatives on the School Naming Committee for the new K-12 school in Kingsville. All applicants must be public school supporters. The GECDSB School Naming Policy, Regulation and Appendices are posted on the board website. The committee […]

Town & County News

Where’s Neptune? (Water Meter Project Update)

Kingsville’s Water Meter Upgrade project has begun. With the implementation of Automated Metering Infrastructure, we’ll see several benefits, including improved operational efficiency, revenue protection, enhanced customer service, and a better distribution system performance. There are also societal and environmental benefits. The project is expected to be completed by the end of […]

Books

49th Shelf: Commune

Commune by (author) Des Kennedy This is the spellbinding story of six young dreamers who set out from Vancouver in the seventies to haphazardly establish a back-to-the-land commune on a small island in the Salish Sea. Against all odds, the dream endures for half a century through fierce internecine squabbling, occasional […]

Business

Businesses Ask For Extension To Forgivable Portion Of CEBA

Small businesses that took out a Canada Emergency Business Account (CEBA) loan have just over 60 days to repay the loan while securing the forgivable portion of up to $20,000, and many are worried they won’t be able to meet the January 18, 2024, deadline. If government doesn’t extend the repayment deadline, there will be […]

Town & County News

Charges Follow Multi-Million Dollar Drug Bust At Ambassador Bridge

On March 4, 2023, a semi-truck coming into Canada at the Ambassador Bridge border crossing was referred for secondary examination by Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) border services officers. During a thorough inspection of the trailer, officers discovered suspected methamphetamine weighing approximately 300 kilograms. The driver was arrested, handed over […]

Business Consumer News

BBB Tip: Shop Safe And Shop Smart This Holiday Season

The 2023 holiday shopping season promises to be an unpredictable one.  High inflation rates and increased prices of consumer goods are already throwing a wrench into holiday shopping. Electronics, toys, and other products will be (or already are) in short supply, and retailers are struggling to staff up as the shopping season nears. Just like in 2022, […]

Ontario News

Ban of Canadian Work Experience Requirement In Job Postings Proposed

Proposed changes would help qualified newcomers fill labour shortages in health care and other in-demand industries The Ontario government will soon introduce legislation that, if passed, would make it the first province in Canada to help even more internationally-trained immigrants work in the fields they’ve studied in by banning the use of […]

Books

49th Shelf: Two for the Road

Two for the Road by (author) Chantel Guertin For readers of Emily Henry, Gail Honeyman and Josie Silver, a tender, funny and wise new novel about a romance bookshop owner who embarks on the adventure–or misadventure–of a lifetime in search of her own happily ever after. Sometimes there are detours on […]

Canadian News

Ottawa’s Misguided Indo-Pacific Trade Strategy Unlikely To Succeed

The federal government’s new Indo-Pacific trade strategy (IPS), meant to encourage increased Canadian exports to Indo-Pacific countries such as India and China through subsidies and other preferential treatments, unwisely shifts attention from Canada’s largest trading partner and key source of prosperity, finds a new study released on October 24, 2023 […]

OPP News

OPP West Region Launches Festive Ride Campaign

OPP, Municipal and First Nations Policing Services United Against Impaired Driving Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) West Region officers are joining forces with their municipal and First Nations policing counterparts to combat impaired driving this holiday season, as the annual Festive RIDE (Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere) campaign rolls out across southwestern […]