February 26, 2021 · 0 Comments
Judge in OPS trial provides reasons for ruling
By Paula Brown,
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The Ontario Court judge who acquitted former Orangeville Police Service (OPS) officer Stephen Fisher, has provided the reasons for her ruling.
In the court document released on Feb. 11, Justice Shannon McPherson cited the Crown not being able to prove a recorded conversation in an interview room was a private communication and the lack of credibility from a witness, as the reasons of her ruling.
Fisher was charged with disclosure of private communication and breach of trust by a police officer in December of 2018 by the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), following an investigation into the release of a video which contained a conversation between two manager officers, allegedly harassing other OPS employees. Fisher was acquitted of both charges by McPherson on January 15.
February 26, 2021 · 0 Comments
By Paula Brown
Preparations for a COVID-19 Hub Vaccination Clinic in Orangeville are now underway.
Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph (WDG) Public Health in a press release on Monday (Feb. 22) said the public health unit, Dufferin County, and the Town of Orangeville are now working on completing the preparations for the vaccination clinic which will be located at the Alder Recreation Centre.
The clinic is expected to open on March 3.
“Moving quickly and strategically is essential to getting our region vaccinated against COVID-19. I thank our partners at the County and Town for their commitment to ensuring the people of Dufferin County have local access to the vaccines necessary to ending this pandemic,” said Dr. Nicola Mercer, Medical Officer of Health and CEO for WDG Public Health, in the press release.
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Conservation officials: proposal to expand Conservation Commission threatens future of conservation in Missouri
The Missouri Department of Conservation director testified Monday night in Jefferson City against a proposal to increase the size of the Conservation Commission from four to nine, saying it could lead to regional favoritism.
State Rep. Chris Dinkins, R-Annapolis, testifies before a Missouri House committee in Jefferson City on January 28, 2020 (file photo courtesy of Tim Bommel at House Communications)
The hearing was delayed for about an hour, when a fire alarm began sounding at the Capitol. Lawmakers had to be evacuated, until firefighters checked the building.
School choice bills have been pushed in Missouri for years. Will the pandemic pave the way?
By Tessa Weinberg
Yet despite massive GOP majorities in both the House and the Senate, they often fall short.
Since the expansion of charter schools into unaccredited districts in 2012, attempts to push through education reform have crashed into a wall of resistance year after year resistance that spans across political, ideological and geographic lines.
Now the top Republicans in both the Missouri House and Senate have once again declared school choice a top priority, fast tracking bills that would expand charter schools statewide and establish scholarship accounts that could be used toward things like private school tuition.
February 18, 2021 · 0 Comments
By Paula Brown,
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Dufferin-Caledon has received more than $3.4 million in funding from the Ontario government for local infrastructure projects.
The $3.4 million funding from the provincial government is through the Ontario Community Infrastructure Fund (OCIF), and will be spread across 10 municipalities in the community to address local infrastructure needs. The funding is part of the Ontario government’s commitment to provide approximately $200 million to 42 small, rural, and northern communities to help address core infrastructure projects for 2021.
Dufferin-Caledon MPP Sylvia Jones in a press release said the funding will help build and repair roads, bridges, water and wastewater infrastructure within the Dufferin-Caledon municipalities.