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The breadth and depth of rural life was on full display at the second day of the Great Yorkshire Show, with the finest examples of cheese, pigeons and goats taking centre stage for their own championships.
A sewage leak in southern Ontario highlights the toxic relationship between cities and water
It was unveiled Monday north of the chapel on the east side of the ravine. Monument project volunteer Aly Boltman says the historically overlooked Potter’s Field, also known as the Indigent Lot, came into use in 1858 and was a burial ground for more than 130 years for babies, orphans, seniors, Indigenous people, the working poor, the incarcerated and the homeless are buried there. Boltman says many from Owen Sound’s historic Black community, including those who escaped on the Underground Railroad and their descendants, share the resting place, “These were citizens who faced systemic rac...
This had garnered 101 responses, noted senior policy advisor Sue Mavor. Councillors were quick to point out that this feedback, and earlier opinions from iwi and Maori organisations had been carefully considered. Kevin Taylor, absent from the November meeting, acknowledged submissions both for and against. He had read them all, he said, along with a legal opinion on council decision-making “and for the record I am in favour of the resolution.” CHRIS MARSHALL/Stuff The TaupÅ District Council has confirmed a decision originally made last November to have Maori wards in place for at l...
Wiki Samuel was about to celebrate the national day until a councillor knocked on his door with a petition likely to limit Māori representation.