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New Cannabis Ventures
February 6, 2018
The Company operates an indoor facility in Aylmer, Ontario, and is awaiting its second-site cultivation license for its greenhouse facility located in Strathroy, Ontario. WeedMD has entered into supply agreements in addition to strategic relationships with established cannabis brands. WeedMD is focused onÃÂ ...
Strathroy Age Dispatch
January 29, 2018
If the Progressive Conservatives were looking for a silk purse out of the sow's ear delivered with the sexual impropriety charges levelled at Patrick Brown and his abrupt resignation as leader, wisdom would dictate proceeding with a caution rarely exhibited. With the Tory caucus choosing their finance critic,ÃÂ ...
Strathroy Age Dispatch
January 28, 2018
James Martin can still treat transgender adults, but not youth, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario has ruled. The latest restriction came after Martin failed to hire someone to supervise his transgender practice and sign off on treatment decisions, the college said on its website. The Free PressÃÂ ...
Strathroy Age Dispatch
January 26, 2018
Carillion Canada, the provincial snow-clearing contractor on major Southwestern Ontario highways, has been granted protection from creditors by the Ontario Superior Court under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act. The Canadian branch of insolvent British construction giant and state contractorÃÂ ...
Strathroy Age Dispatch
January 25, 2018
After refusing to resign hours before, Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Patrick Brown stepped down amid sexual misconduct allegations early Thursday morning. But the time between his initial press conference, where he denied the accusations, and his eventual resignation sparked a flurry ofÃÂ ...
Strathroy Age Dispatch
January 24, 2018
Border officials are tallying up their haul of seized goods from Southern Ontario's crossings, a bonanza that included more than 900 weapons and almost enough alcohol to fill eight hot tubs. The goods were snapped up from travellers at the Canadian Border Services Agency's Windsor, Sarnia, Fort ErieÃÂ ...
Strathroy Age Dispatch
January 23, 2018
A new commentary by the Financial Accountability Office (FAO), one of the province's fiscal watchdogs, says average debt loads grew 5.65% a year between 2010 and 2016. The average Ontario household was almost $154,000 in the red in 2016, compared to $119,000 in 2010. The FAO says most of thatÃÂ ...
Strathroy Age Dispatch
January 23, 2018
The new starting wage is $14.75, though the staff average is closer to $15.45, he said, adding they raised prices by about 10 per cent on everything they serve in their Toronto and Port Hope, Ont., shops. From small mom-and-pop shops to a discount retail giant, there are already examples of companiesÃÂ ...
CTV News
January 22, 2018
Provincial police say last winter marked the highest number of snowmobile-related deaths the force has responded to in almost 15 years. They say they responded to 27 snowmobile deaths in the winter of 2016-2017 -- one third of which involved people travelling on frozen waterways who went through theÃÂ ...
CBC.ca
January 21, 2018
Environment Canada issued a fog advisory on Sunday for London, Strathroy and Middlesex County. The weather agency says dense fog patches are expected to clear out later today. In the meantime, drivers are cautioned as travel conditions may be hazardous along roads with "zero visibility" from the fog.
Sarnia Observer
January 20, 2018
And because Leamington suffered an upset loss to Strathroy Thursday, the Legionnaires moved into a tie for third place with the Tomato Town team, just two points behind second ranked LaSalle in the Western Ontario Hockey Conference standings. Sarnia travels to Chatham Sunday, then hosts StrathroyÃÂ ...
Strathroy Age Dispatch
January 20, 2018
Khawlah Noman and her mother Saima Samad, (right) arrive at Pauline Johnson Public School in Toronto, Ont. on Jan. 12, 2018. (Stan Behal/Toronto Sun/Postmedia Network). Bookmark and Share. Change text size for the story. Print. Report an error. It was a tale worthy of Aesop himself: the girl in hijabÃÂ ...
Strathroy Age Dispatch
January 20, 2018
Step aside maple syrup, icewine is the hottest Ontario treasure savoured around the world. This month, they're celebrating the chilly nectar of the vine in Niagara. In “cottage country,” there's the Bracebridge Fire and Ice Festival with its take on a traditional winter carnival. And, in these cold, dark days ofÃÂ ...
Strathroy Age Dispatch
January 20, 2018
The turbine, located on Sixteenth Line in south Chatham-Kent, Ont., is part of the Raleigh Wind Energy Centre, owned by TerraForm Power Inc. and SunEdison ... Home to the largest number of wind turbines in Ontario, and the province's largest wind farms, much of Southwestern Ontario — especially ruralÃÂ ...
Strathroy Age Dispatch
January 20, 2018
We aren't going to pick apart Premier Kathleen Wynne's pre-election cabinet shuffle because the problem with the Liberal Titanic is the captain, not the crew. With less than five months to go before the Ontario election which must be called no later than June 7, Wynne mainly promoted women MPPs eitherÃÂ ...
Toronto Sun
January 19, 2018
New wind turbine projects will be affected by the Ontario Liberal government canceling their green energy act to save money. Photograph taken on Tuesday September 27, 2016 near Strathroy, Ontario west of London. Mike Hensen / The London Free Pres. BY MATTHEW LAU. In a 1999 interview, the lateÃÂ ...
Strathroy Age Dispatch
January 19, 2018
Members of Ontario Federation of Labour protest outside a Tim Hortons Franchise in Toronto on Wednesday January 10, 2018. ... after Jeri Horton-Joyce and Ron Joyce Jr., the children of the brand's billionaire co-founders, rolled out the controversial measures at two Cobourg, Ont., locations they own.
Strathroy Age Dispatch
January 9, 2018
Police say a Canadian man arrested in the U.S. and charged in the death of his ex-girlfriend last spring has been escorted back to southwestern Ontario. ... of second-degree murder in the death of Melinda Vasilije, 22, whose body was found with multiple stab wounds in her home in Kitchener, Ont., in AprilÃÂ ...
BlackburnNews.com
January 8, 2018
Good news for travelers as the OPP reopened Hwy. 402, both eastbound and westbound, Sunday by mid-morning. It had been closed since Thursday January 4 due to poor visibility in snow and blowing snow and multiple collisions in the Watford and Strathroy areas. There are still partly snow coveredÃÂ ...
CBC.ca
January 5, 2018
Dozens of drivers were forced to hunker down for the night Thursday at the Gemini Sportsplex in Strathroy after the Ontario Provincial Police closed Highway 402 on Thursday after wind driven snow caused multiple crashes, including a tractor trailer that wound up on the median near Strathroy. With noÃÂ ...
Canadian Accountant
January 3, 2018
MNP will create a new region, known as Southwestern Ontario, formed by the London-based firm's five offices in Arkona, Clinton, London, Stratford and Strathroy. It will be led by Doug Greenhow (pictured above, left), the new MNP Regional Managing Partner, a 36-year veteran of Collins Barrow in London,ÃÂ ...
Strathroy Age Dispatch
January 3, 2018
... owned by the children of the co-founders of the franchise say they have reduced employee benefits and cut back paid breaks to help offset Ontario's $2.40 jump in hourly minimum wage. Jeri Horton-Joyce and Ron Joyce Jr. wrote a letter to employees at their two Tim Hortons restaurants in Cobourg, Ont.,ÃÂ ...
Strathroy Age Dispatch
December 26, 2017
Full-time, part-time and seasonal Ontario workers will be eligible for 10 days of personal emergency leave – the first two paid – beginning Jan. 1. A new stand-alone leave for victims of domestic or sexual violence will take effect in the new year as well, with the first five days paid. These new labour rules areÃÂ ...
Strathroy Age Dispatch
December 18, 2017
In a rare move, a private charge has been laid against the owner of a rescue-training company after a Southwestern Ontario trainee died in an ice-rescue exercise on a weekend course in 2015. The death of 30-year-old Adam Brunt, a firefighting student who drowned while trying to get through a narrowÃÂ ...
Canadian Beer News
December 18, 2017
STRATHROY, ON – Ontario Beverage Network reports that a new brewery and pub opened this past weekend in downtown Strathroy, a small community in Southwestern Ontario. ... Rusty Wrench is located at 9 Front Street West in Strathroy, and is open every day except Mondays and holidays. For moreÃÂ ...
Strathroy Age Dispatch
December 13, 2017
TORONTO - Scalper bots are now banned in Ontario, as a bill to protect ticket buyers passed Wednesday, though the ticket industry warns some parts of the legislation may actually put fans at a disadvantage. The provisions in a new Ticket Sales Act are contained in omnibus consumer protection legislationÃÂ ...
Strathroy Age Dispatch
December 31, 1999
They bullied Toronto into abandoning plans for tolls on major highways, they bullied school boards to close schools without regard to students, they bullied rural Ontario on wind factory locations, etc. The campaigning involved in this move could be called crass politics at its ugliest. Wynne's unpopularityÃÂ ...
Strathroy Age Dispatch
December 31, 1999
Ice coats the rocks and observation deck at the base of the Horseshoe falls in Niagara Falls, Ontario on January 3, 2018. The cold snap which ... “I just wanted to see the ice and the frozen falls,” said Diane Zhao, who made her fourth trip from China to Niagara Falls, Ont. to see it in person. “It's so huge andÃÂ ...
Strathroy Age Dispatch
December 31, 1999
Their deaths came amid the unseasonable deep freeze that's gripped Southwestern Ontario in the last week, in stark contrast to the same period last year when Ontario was emerging from its ... Grant Triebner (90) and Ada Triebner (83) were found dead at their home in Blue Water, Ont. on Wednesday.
Strathroy Age Dispatch
December 31, 1999
In a letter dated December 2017, Ron Joyce Jr., son of company co-founder Ron Joyce, and his wife, Jeri Horton-Joyce, who is Tim Hortons' daughter, told employees at two Tim Hortons restaurants they own in Cobourg, Ont., that as of Jan. 1, they would no longer be entitled to paid breaks, and would haveÃÂ ...
Globalnews.ca
December 31, 1999
A snow squall warning is in effect for London, Parkhill, Strathroy, as well as Eastern and Western Middlesex County. Coulson says the system is set up near Grand Bend and ... The squalls arrive in the midst of a cold snap hitting southwestern Ontario. Environment Canada cancelled an extreme coldÃÂ ...
London Free Press
December 31, 1999
Provincial Highway 402 remained closed Friday morning from Highway 401 to Nauvoo Road in Lambton County after frigid temperatures and lake-effect squalls caused havoc on roads and forced Strathroy to turn a local rink into an emergency shelter. OPP say Strathroy-Caradoc opened the doors to theÃÂ ...
Toronto Sun
November 21, 2017
Photograph taken on Tuesday September 27, 2016 near Strathroy, Ontario ... at Queen's Park in Toronto, Ont. on Wednesday March 1, 2017.
Strathroy Age Dispatch
November 20, 2017
The conditions that caused snow squalls and poor visibility on local roads nearly obscured the Perth County Paramedic Services sign warning ...
Toronto Sun
November 18, 2017
New wind turbine projects will be affected by the Ontario Liberal ... Photograph taken on Tuesday September 27, 2016 near Strathroy, Ontario ...
Globalnews.ca
November 12, 2017
The province's police watchdog has invoked its mandate after a man was hit by a vehicle following a brief visit to an OPP detachment.
Strathroy Age Dispatch
November 6, 2017
There are 233 craft breweries in Ontario, including five in London with five more just opened or on the way. Entrepreneurs are also jumping on ...
BlackburnNews.com
October 31, 2017
Five people are in hospital after a rollover collision closed the eastbound lanes of Hwy. 402 in the Strathroy area. The Ontario Provincial Police ...
parrysound.com
October 18, 2017
ORILLIA — Over a seven-day period, 46 police services across Ontario helped ... Stratford Police Service, Strathroy-Caradoc Police Service, Greater Sudbury ...
Peterborough Examiner
October 18, 2017
... the Peterborough Regional Health Centre in 2015. Jeffrey Ysebert, 34, who grew up in Strathroy, Ont. in southwestern Ontario, died on Jan.
Strathroy Age Dispatch
October 18, 2017
Lindsay Kerdohan, curator at Museum Strathroy-Caradoc, seats at a ... the Archives of Ontario, called “Medical records in Ontario, while the ...
Strathroy Age Dispatch
October 13, 2017
A proposed anti-tobacco plan is “totally irresponsible” say critics and will only fan the flames of the province's already out-of-control illegal ...
Strathroy Age Dispatch
October 11, 2017
... Centre Deer Collision Prevention Strategy in Middlesex Centre, Ont. ... “But it's serious in other areas of Ontario as well … if we can make a ...
London Free Press
October 2, 2017
... time for knee replacement surgery in Strathroy is the longest in Ontario, ... Congdon will wait two years for a hip replacement in London, Ont.
Strathroy Age Dispatch
December 31, 1999
... at 33358 Queen St. in Ailsa Craig, Ont. on Thursday, November 23, ... OPP and Ontario Fire Marshal's investigators were still on the scene ...
CTV News
December 31, 1999
... her toddler, who died after being scalded by hot coffee in Strathroy, Ont. ... and Scott Bakker, 27, were sentenced in a London, Ont. courtroom ...
Strathroy Age Dispatch
December 31, 1999
House finches are seen across Southwestern Ontario in good ... Since these seed crops are relatively low in northern Ontario this year, we may ...
Strathroy Age Dispatch
December 31, 1999
... is seen in the woods on Dellen Millard's property near Waterloo, Ont., in this evidence photo. ... THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, Ontario Courts ...
Investing News Network
December 31, 1999
Strathroy is conveniently located 30 kilometers away from London, Ontario, and 60 kilometers from WeedMD's existing facility in Aylmer. As part ...
BlackburnNews.com
December 31, 1999
Taylor Evans, 27, of Strathroy, and Thomas Hudson, 29, of London have both been arrested and charged with break and enter, as well as theft ...
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