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The Globe and Mail COLIN GRAF Published February 21, 2021 Colin Graf/The Globe and Mail Almost 80 years after the last homes of the Stoney Point Indigenous community were removed by the Canadian government on flatbed trucks to make way for a military base, the first new homes for their descendants arrived this week in the same manner. The prefabricated homes are a welcome sight for Pierre George, brother of Dudley George, the Indigenous protester killed by an Ontario Provincial Police sniper in 1995. He was with a group of Indigenous activists who had reoccupied their ancestral land and th...

Author of the article: Paul Morden Publishing date: Dec 18, 2020  •  December 18, 2020  •  3 minute read  •  Ernie Hardeman, Ontario's minister of agriculture, food and rural affairs, is shown in this file photo speaking in May 2019 in Lambton Shores when funding was first announced to boost broadband service in the county. Standing behind him are, from left, Lambton-Kent-Middlesex MPP Monte McNaughton and Sarnia-Lambton MPP Bob Bailey. Photo by File photo /The Observer Article content Construction has begun on a project to improve broadband service to 990 homes and businesse...

The Huron Waves Music Festival was originally supposed to have live music across Huron County in May and in December. However, they were unable to do this due to COVID-19 and they had cancelled the festival all together. That was until the Ministry of Culture and Tourism came up with some funding ideas to help the festivals think of a new way to share their event. So, Sunday, Dec 13th, at 3pm, they went live on YouTube and Facebook. Pre COVID-19, the festival was going to feature artists from around the world, but as it switched to online, they decided to have this event feature local musicia...

  WINGHAM, ONT. -- The Huron Waves Music Festival was supposed to hit stages across Huron County for its inaugural performances in May and then December. But the pandemic had other ideas, cancelling the festival all together. That was until the Ministry of Culture and Tourism came up with some funding to help festivals like Huron Waves to “reimagine” their events. So, it turns out there will be a Huron Waves concert in December, it’ll just be online. “We’re excited. In fact, this may take Southwestern Ontario internationally, in a way that a live program set in Exeter or Clint...

Fishing Report: Champions of environment detect change in the air By Dave Monti, Special to the Journal © Courtesy of Dave Monti Jerry Elmer Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., held the 11th annual Rhode Island Energy, Environment and Oceans Leaders Day on Dec. 4, an online event this year with more than 300 attending. The event recognized champions of energy, environment and oceans in Rhode Island.  And it fostered awareness of state and national environmental policy today and what the future might look like with a new presidential administration.  Participants came fr...