Michigan has the fourth highest rate of sexual assault in the country. The Women’s Resource Center in Traverse City has been working on this issue for 50 years.
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Western track and field stars Kenneth West and Favour Okpali have been named the Mustangs' athletes of the year
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Funding for homeless drop-in services at Ark Aid Street Mission will continue to flow, despite the ward councillor putting up an intense fight to halt it. In a 9-5 vote at a city council meeting Tuesday, councillors resurrected a motion quashed at a committee meeting in March to give $611,000 to the agency so it […]
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A departing Conservative MP with deep roots in a London-area riding won’t endorse any candidate to succeed her, not even the one running under her longtime party’s banner. Karen Vecchio, who had represented Elgin-Middlesex-London since 2015, said she won’t publicly support anyone to fill her vacated seat, now renamed Elgin-St. Thomas-London South after the riding’s […]
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A collection of news and notes from across the Southwestern Ontario sports scene GOSLING ADDED: Londoner Julia Gosling has been added to Canada’s senior women’s national hockey team for the world championships scheduled for April 9-20 in Ceske Buejovice, Czechia. The London Devilettes grad will replace Toronto Sceptres teammate Hanna Miller, who was deemed ineligible […]
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An embattled outreach agency for street-level sex workers is suing its former director, alleging failures to submit various tax filings to the Canada Revenue Agency during her tenure on the board. SafeSpace London – a drop-in centre that supports sex workers, other women and non-binary people – has launched a legal action against its former director and […]
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At first glance, the two accused of the murder of OPP Const. Greg Pierzchala could be mistaken for a couple making a business deal. But Randall McKenzie and Brandi Stewart-Sperry, sitting in two separate prisoner docks in Cayuga court Thursday, are charged with the first-degree murder of the young officer on Dec. 27, 2022 – […]
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The Crown’s last witness at Koree Dockstater’s trial was one of the last people to see Shaniqua Henry alive. That wasn’t lost on Robert John, 30, who grew emotional when he was asked questions about his friend Henry, 27, whom he found dead in a puddle on a gravel driveway on Chippewas of the Thames […]
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“I’m blessed to be able to do this,” said Lisa Harper, resource development manager for United Way Perth-Huron. Harper was the guest speaker at the March 20 meeting of the Kinloss Kairshea Women’s Institute, held at the former Lucknow town hall and she spoke on the Northern Huron Connection Centre (NHCC) in Wingham. The NHCC […]
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Middlesex Masters Soccer League is hosting a founders' appreciation event on April 4, for players from the seven original clubs.