Great Lakes Echo

By Clara Lincolnhol

New research says workers picking, grinding and packaging cannabis are developing workplace-related asthma, and two deaths have occurred so far.

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London Free Press
TORONTO — The union representing more than 10,000 full-time college support staff at Ontario’s 24 colleges, including London’s Fanshawe College, has reached a tentative agreement after nearly five weeks on strike. Terms of the proposed settlement were not immediately available. The Ontario Public Service Employees Union says picket lines will come down on Wednesday and […]
Great Lakes Echo

By Isabella Figueroa Nogueira
A recent collaborative study, conducted through the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission, the College of Menominee Nation in Kenosha, Wisconsin, nine tribal entities and academic researchers to understand how climate change threatens the lake sturgeon and to develop adaptation strategies rooted in tribal knowledge.

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London Free Press
The Fanshawe Falcons and the Humber Hawks played each other in college baseball action at Labatt Park in London on Sunday. Photos taken by LFP’s Derek Ruttan druttan@postmedia.com
Great Lakes Echo

By Eric Freedman 

 The Michigan Court of Appeals has cleared the city of South Haven of liability in the 2020 drowning of an 18-year-old swimmer at a public beach on the Lake Michigan coast.

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Great Lakes Echo

By Clara Lincolnhol   

The Michigan Department of Transportation is developing a plan to potentially construct the state’s fourth passenger rail route. The proposed east-west route would carry passengers across the Lower Peninsula, connecting Holland and Grand Rapids with Detroit.

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London Free Press
A development quashed by city council 4 years ago over height and sewage capacity concerns is back on the table amid a new housing reality.
London Free Press
In February 1877 a group of Huron College alumni gathered with the goal of turning their college into a university.