Body found in motel on Christmas Eve raises city's homicide tally to 15, while the Christmas Cheer Fund experiences an increase in applications for holiday hampers and council directs city staff to look into new indoor turf facility proposal.
City council authorized $170,000 in spending to assess a proposal from Soccer Northwest Ontario to build an indoor turf centre adjacent to the Canada Games Complex and Community Auditorium.
The future of a proposed indoor turf facility was put on pause as city officials waited to hear whether or not funding from senior levels of government could be secured.
Local soccer players and other supporters rallied in front of city hall on Monday, calling for a newly elected city council to go ahead with building an indoor turf facility.
Defense counsel is calling for a sentence of three to five years for Jonathan Yellowhead, who was found guilty of manslaughter for his role in the 2018 death of 17-year-old Braiden Jacob