On February 18, 2021, in Granby courthouse, Pete Persons Terre Sable & Gravier Inc. was sentenced and fined a total of $15,000 after pleading guilty to two offences under the Species at Risk Act. The fine will be directed to the Government of Canada’s Environmental Damages Fund. Strong and effective enforcement of Canada’s environmental and wildlife protection laws is one…
SUDBURY — A man who went missing while snowmobiling spent the night outside Feb. 19 before he was rescued in the afternoon of Feb. 20. Sault Ste. Marie Ontario Provincial Police were told the man went missing somewhere between Searchmont and Half Way Haven. He was found at 2 p.m. Saturday thanks to the efforts of OPP Aviation Services, OPP…
EDMONTON — The Alberta government has yet to release details on how it will “optimize” the province’s parks by getting other people to run them. It’s been almost a year since the plan was revealed in the budget and Alberta Parks is to begin accepting reservations March 4 for this summer’s camping season. Despite repeated requests from politicians, environmental groups…
CROW PANTHERBONE WAS KILLED IN A PEDESTRIAN CROSSING AT MACLEOD TRAIL AND GLENMORE TRAIL LAST WEEK
Since it was launched in 2003 so founder Mark Zuckerberg could judge who were the “hotter-looking” students at Harvard, Facebook has morphed in 16 short years into your grandparents’ social media. It only lacks a whiff of lavender or the scent of Old Spice. But it is worth untapped billions. Last week, Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault again vowed Canada would…
‘We know frauds are designed to play on people’s emotions,’ says RCMP analyst
The ongoing struggle to meeting school needs while keeping costs low for Hamilton and Wenham got some help with the addition of additional state aid. The Hamilton-Wenham School Department will receive $160,481 in additional Chapter 70 education aid to apply to its fiscal 2022 budget. The money comes as the result of adopting the Student Opportunity Act to help underperforming…
Rules off to bumpy start with jammed phone lines, confusion over exemptions
Ontario schools are reporting 37 positive COVID-19 cases out of the 3,706 students apart of the asymptomatic testing program being implemented by the Ministry of Health. According to the Ministry, five regions have had targeted asymptomatic testing which began in January. “Our government has taken action to deploy asymptomatic testing province-wide, the first program of its kind in Canada, as…
Residents in central Saskatchewan witnessed something spectacular Monday morning. A bright ball of light hurtled across the morning sky and it didn’t take long for social media to light up with people who saw it. “It looked like an explosion kind of thing and then a streak of light. (There were) some beautiful colours,” said Darren Maroniuk, who was driving…