Sharon Hayes

With heavy hearts, we announce the passing of Sharon Hayes, a beloved wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. Sharon shared 24 years with (late) Jerry Fogal and 31 years with Allen Hayes until her passing.

Sharon was a loving mother to Marcy Fogal and Daryll Fogal (Paul). She treasured her blended family with Heather Hayes (Tim). She adored her grandchildren, Ben Fogal (Cas), Andrew Fogal, and Kristen Ruby (Jackson), her great-grandchildren, Jace, Lachlan, Ronan and baby Georgia, and her niece Belinda and nephews Krys and Jerry.

Her legacy of love and resilience lives on in those who knew and cherished her.

The family extends their gratitude to the staff at Royal Oak in Kingsville for their kindness and exceptional care throughout Sharon’s illness.

A memorial service will be held on March 2nd from 1:00 to 2:30 PM at the South London Community Centre, 1119 Jalna Boulevard, London.

In lieu of flowers, donations in her memory may be made to: Wings Rehabilitation Centre in Amherstburg.

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Police in Durham Region are investigating after a man was killed when his snowmobile was hit by another snowmobile on Sunday evening in Brock Township.

Tuesday, February 18
6-7:30 p.m.

Come out and meet up with Mayor of Kingsville Dennis Rogers and Councillor Thomas Neufeld at the Kingsville Branch on February 18th.

If you’d like to engage in conversation with them, if you have any questions, here’s your chance to sit down and talk.

Mayor Rogers will be there from 6-7:30 p.m. Councillor Neufeld will be arriving around 6:30 p.m.

Kingsville Library Branch:
40 Main Street West
Kingsville, Ontario
Phone: (226) 946-1529 ext. 445

Photo: Kingsville Times

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The Town of Kingsville is hosting a meeting to provide information regarding updates to our Municipal Sewer-Use By-law on February 26th, 2025, from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm in rooms B & C at the Kingsville Arena, 1741 Jasperson Drive.

At this meeting, we will:

• Review current By-laws and greenhouse connection requirements
• Present investigations and reasons for the amendments
• Provide a Question and Answers session for industry leaders

Resilient infrastructure is an established priority in the Town’s Strategic Plan—a 2040 Vision for Kingsville. These By-law amendments help us take important steps to maintain the integrity of our municipal sewage collection and treatment systems.

Photo by Mike Gosselin

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Hello again from Joan Murray Barton! I was born and raised in Kingsville. Now I’m a retired RN living in the bush here on the Bruce Peninsula. I’ve been here for the past 20 years and loving every minute.

And I love Cold Water Swimming!

I’m still swimming on the Bruce Peninsula … winter, spring, summer and fall! My husband Tony Barton took this picture of me floating among the ice pans.

Cheers from the Bruce!

~ Joan Murray Barton 

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Canada’s Largest Cycling Conference Will Showcase Cycling and Active Transportation Progress and Opportunities in Windsor & Essex County

The Share the Road Cycling Coalition (The Coalition), Ontario’s cycling advocacy and policy organization, welcomed the news that the City of Windsor will host Canada’s largest cycling and active transportation conference, the 2025 Ontario Bike Summit, at Caesars Windsor from May 27-30.

The event is expected to draw 250 delegates, including elected representatives from all levels of government, municipal and provincial staff, and industry leaders from across Canada and internationally to share innovations, best practices, and opportunities for progress in cycling.

This year’s Summit theme, “Bridging Communities, Building Connections”, will celebrate the opening of the Gordie Howe Bridge and highlight its innovative active transportation infrastructure, which will facilitate active travel and tourism.

The event will also showcase Windsor’s investments in connecting residents and tourists to nature, neighborhoods, and attractions.

The Summit is organized by the Share the Road Cycling Coalition, a province-wide cycling policy and advocacy organization based in Burlington.

“We are delighted that Windsor is hosting the 16th annual Ontario Bike Summit. With cycling infrastructure investments providing connections to the new bridge and the new National Urban Park, Windsor is the ideal location for conference attendees to both learn from Windsor’s progress and be inspired by innovations underway in cities across North America,” said Eleanor McMahon, Founder and Board Chair, Share the Road Cycling Coalition.

Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens welcomed the announcement: “We are pleased that cycling and active transportation professionals and enthusiasts have chosen Windsor for the 2025 Ontario Bike Summit. We look forward to showcasing Windsor’s active transportation networks, including infrastructure investments that connect cyclists to the dedicated multi-use path on the Gordie Howe Bridge, which is part of the Trans Canada Trail.”

“Over the past six years, Windsor’s cycling network has increased by 40 km, with almost 15 km of new multi-use trails and 24 km of new bicycle lanes. Residents and visitors now have access to nearly 175 km of multi-use trails and nearly 100 km of bike lanes, including 12 km along the waterfront, the Malden Park mountain bike trails, Ganatchio Trail, Little River Corridor, the 42.5 km Windsor Loop, 15 km of woodland and prairie hiking trails at Ojibway, plus access to 205 parks across the city and over 2,400 acres of green space. In 2024, our 10-year capital plan was approved to invest $35.2 million in active transportation, including bike lanes, as we continue to grow.”

“We also look forward to active transportation professionals experiencing the trails and pathways in Windsor that are part of the County Wide Active Transportation System (CWATS), a unique 800-kilometre active transportation network that connects the seven County municipalities, facilitating safe cycling opportunities for residents and tourists alike,” Dilkens added.

The City of Windsor maintains more than 1,000 km of sidewalks and trails, nearly 100 km of bike lanes, and more than 175 km of multi-use pathways.

Tourism Windsor Essex Pelee Island CEO Gordon Orr noted the growing contribution that cycling makes to the tourism offerings and economy in the region as highlights that will be shared at the Summit.

“The City of Windsor and our municipal partners in Essex County and Pelee Island offer abundant opportunities for cycling tourism experiences and we look forward to sharing with conference attendees how the unique topography, the award-winning wineries and culinary tourism as well as the nature-based attractions across the region have shaped our approach to attracting tourists,” said Orr.

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People in the eastern half of Canada are digging out after another monster storm dumped huge amounts of snow for the second time in recent days, with parts of Quebec walloped the hardest.

Tails were wagging and it was treats galore as the cast of Stratford Festival’s upcoming production of Annie met the newest members of their crew. The cast playing the orphans said it was an exciting day getting to meet the dogs playing Annie’s companion in the show, Sandy.

There are currently no weather warnings in effect for Monday from Environment Canada, but the federal weather agency says an additional two centimeters of snow is expected.

There's lots of activities to keep you busy on Family Day.

Heather Morgan says she's missed trains and almost had her wheelchair ramp swiped by vehicles multiple times at the Allandale Waterfront GO Station in Barrie, Ont., because people without permits are constantly parking in the accessible spots. It's an issue she says has been ongoing for the last couple of years.

The winter weather didn't discourage turnout at Ottawa's winter festival. In fact, Ottawa Tourism said it may have brought in more people than last year.

For years, Carleton University in Ottawa has been synonymous with basketball. Led by head coach Dave Smart, the men's program racked up 17 titles in a 20-year span. So when Dani Sinclair left her alma mater Victoria to become the Ravens' women's head coach in 2020, she was ready to embrace the pressure.

The city of London is looking to expand its licensing rules for adult body-rub parlours to require women who work in the parlours to hold licences, a move some critics say won't achieve the stated goal of enhancing their safety.

The owners of a Ukrainian coffee shop in London, Ont., welcome people to come in and spend time with loved ones, not just when much of Canada marks Family Day. "We try to create a place where everyone from Ukraine could come and feel like they came to Ukraine," says Yullia Konariev, who came to Canada with her husband a year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

With polls suggesting Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford commanding a strong lead in the Ont. election, tonight's debate could be the last chance for the opposition leaders to deflate some of that support. CBC News spoke with analysts and observers about what each leader needs to do.

Daryl Watts scored 51 seconds into overtime, propelling the Toronto Sceptres to a 3-2 Professional Women's Hockey League victory over the Ottawa Charge Sunday at Rogers Place.

As the nearby Grand Erie region continues to experience a community-wide measles outbreak, Hamilton is reporting a new case in a child. 

If you want to see a majority of members of Hamilton City Council lose their minds, just make any kind of a contrary comment about anything to do with the proposed Hamilton LRT. “Sending the wrong signal,” about LRT is at the top of the list in the catalogue of Council taboos—even worse than “impugning motives” of fellow councillors, and God knows how reprehensible that is. Such was the case last week when councillor Tom Jackson suggested postposing what started out at roughly $6 million in what were termed “LRT-enabling public works,” but which ended up getting whittled down to $2.3 by staff who were clearly jittery to see the motion popped in just as council was about to finalize the city’s 2025 budget. Seeing how a number of cost-cutting motions had been ruled out of order a week earlier, for a number of reasons, Jackson pulled the motion from that agenda and  huddled with staff over several days to ensure the language of his motion was bulletproof. He was outraged when on the last day staff had altered his motion a final time, saying some of the work’s weren’t really LRT-enabling after all, that in the case of an extension of Frid Street, it was something the city was going to do anyway.

In introducing his motion which lost incidentally, Jackson said the intention, was not aimed at attacking the project, just delaying the expenditure for a year as there was no likelihood of LRT construction this year.  A tense debate ensued with the city’s LRT director at one point providing a new justification for the works, now suggesting the purpose was to act as a “bargaining chip” with Metrolinx. Whether that meant a “bargaining chip” to get some kind of response from Metrolinx to say they were actually committed to the project or something else was not clear. It certainly felt like the plan was more to prime the pump with city cash, so to speak, showing Hamilton was prepared to put some skin in the game to elicit some kind of a positive signal from Metrolinx. One thing was clear though, Jackson had violated the unwritten rule—speak no evil of LRT lest the province overhear and pull the plug…the residents of Hamilton are 100 percent committed, after all.

Several other councillors were passionate in their indignation at Jackson as well. What the LRT supporters did not address in their calls for more vision from their laggard colleagues, was the inconvenient fact that half of the funding envelope of $3.4 Million, the federal portion, is not nailed down. Perhaps they weren’t listening when on two occasions, Filomena Tassi, Hamilton’s representative at the federal cabinet table, said Ottawa was still waiting to see a business plan from Ontario for the project and that the fed’s were still expecting to see as part of the plan, affordable housing.

So, we have a majority of council saying there is something seriously wrong with people who question a project that does not have its funding in place, and which nobody believes will ever get built for the $3.4 Billion that was earmarked in 2021. The deal appears to be that the province will cover any cost overruns. Beyond that, there is still the lack of clarity on the operation and maintenance cost, which will be Hamilton’s responsibility, and which increasingly looks like it will not be known until after the project is completed.

This Mensa caucus of Hamilton Council who have taken to referring to themselves as governors and stewards seem to turn into more like wide-eyed Swifties when LRT is involved. To hell with the numbers not adding up, and next to no information, lets just go for it…because it’s City Building, dummies. You just don’t get it.

Despite significant snowfall in Ottawa overnight Saturday, Environment Canada says the heaviest snowfall is expected Sunday afternoon.

People in the eastern half of Canada faced another monster storm that dumped huge amounts of snow for the second time in recent days, with parts of Quebec walloped the hardest.

An additional measles exposure has been reported in a health care setting in the London area, officials with Southwestern Public Health say.

Ontario police watchdog released its findings into the Oct. 15 incident that resulted in a man, 51, being treated in hospital with a shoulder laceration and broken collarbone.

Hamilton Police Service will be presenting its Race and Identity-Based Data (RIBD) Strategy at a Community Information session February 25th.

The RIBD strategy is focused on racial inequalities, including differences in outcomes like use of force among racial groups, internal policies, and training practices.

In 2020, Ontario’s Ministry of the Solicitor General directed police to record the race of individuals in use-of-force incidents. Ontario-wide trends revealed disparities among racial communities, including Black, Southeast Asian, and Middle Eastern groups, compared to the resident population in areas such as injuries, weapons, and other use-of-force tactics. Guided by human rights and trauma-informed principles, Hamilton Police have developed RIBD Strategy in line with the 2017 Anti-Racism Act (ARA).

The RIBD Community Information Session will take place at the David Braley Health Sciences Centre at 100 Main St W, Tuesday, February 25, 2025 from  6:00pm-7:30pm

The information session will provide the community with an opportunity to learn more about the strategy and ask questions.

In June 2024, Hamilton Police Service also announced the formation of the first RIBD Community Advisory Panel. The ten-member group helped to shape the RIBD strategy. CAP members provide critical perspective that challenge data interpretations, strategy, and action planning while offering suggestions based on their community perspectives and lived-experience. The Community Advisory Panel includes individuals with experience in data, social justice and community service.

The Ottawa Police Service says its homicide unit is investigating the death of a 25-year-old man Friday night in the city’s east end.

A winter storm warning has been issued for London and Middlesex County as the region sees its second major dumping of snow in less than a week.

Like several Liberal MPs, who initially proclaimed their exits from federal politics, then changed their minds when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced he was retiring, there has been some confusion on the provincial front in Burlington ahead of the Feb. 27 election.

Progressive Conservative incumbent Natalie Pierre first declared in October she would not run again, then changed her mind and said she would in December.

She said the change in direction resulted from the many calls, messages and personal visits she had urging her to reconsider and run again.

Pierre was elected in 2022 polling 42 per cent of the vote to outdistancing Liberal Mariam Manaa by close to 7,000 votes.

The local Progressive Conservative Riding Association announced Jan. 13 that Pierre had been acclaimed.

Andrea Grebenc, former chair of the Halton District School Board, is running for the Liberals, Megan Beauchemin for the NDP, Kyle Hutton for the Green Party, James Chillingworth for the New Blue Party and David Crombie for the None of the Above Direct Democracy Party.

Crombie registered shortly before the 2 p.m. deadline on Thursday.

Grebenc also ran for regional chair of Halton in 2022, placing third behind incumbent Gary Carr and former Burlington MPP Jane McKenna.

She founded an IT consulting business in 1999 that focuses on eLearning, web design, and software training.

Beauchemin is a graduate of the University of Waterloo, who works in the automotive sector. She has experience in manufacturing, budgeting, procurement and communications.  

She served a term as the Vice-President for the Education for the Waterloo Undergraduate Student Association.

Hutton works as a data and digital organizer for an environmental non-profit, helping organizations across Canada improve their outreach and data collection efforts. He also ran in the 2022 election.

Chillingworth is CEO of The Consulting Practice Inc., a cybersecurity firm serving Canadian and American corporations. He is also an actor with over 100 IMDB Credits, and more than 180 Shoots of various types (Movies, TV Shows, Commercials, Web Series, Music Videos, Print Ads, and Short Films) according to his online profile. The Burlington provincial riding has been Progressive Conservative since it was formed in 1999, except for 2014-2018 when it was represented by Liberal Eleanor McMahon.

In the riding of Oakville North-Burlington, which covers the area in Burlington, northeast of the QEW and northwest of Walkers Line, Progressive Conservative Effie Triantafilopoulos will defend her seat in a race against Kaniz Mouli of the Liberals, Caleb Smolenaars of the NDP and Green Party candidate Ali Hosny.

Mouli, who lives in the Palermo neighborhood, is a mother and business leader.

A labour studies student at McMaster University, Smolenaars is a former legislative intern at Queen’s Park and, although only 20, has already done some union organizing.

Hosny, who works in marketing, also ran for the Green Party in the same riding in 2022.

A second attempt to rob a Grimsby jewelry store in less than a month was thwarted by staff on Saturday, but not before the store’s windows were smashed. On Saturday afternoon, Niagara Regional Police were called to an attempted robbery at Harmony Jewellers located at 37 Main Street West, in Grimsby.

When Police arrived, store employees told them three suspects entered the store carrying backpacks and wearing masks.  The suspicious activity prompted employees to implement theft prevention measures prohibiting the suspects from further entry into the store.  As a result, all three suspects exited the store and no items were stolen.  Once outside the store the suspects linked up with a fourth male.  Prior to fleeing eastbound on foot, the suspects used what is believed to be sledgehammers to break the exterior windows of the store.  The three suspects were last scene entering a blue BMW x3 or x5 model.  The vehicle left the area northbound on Christie Street toward the Queen Elizabeth Way.

The three suspects who entered the store are described as male, black, 16 to 18 years of age, wearing dark clothing, wearing gloves, carrying backpacks, and wearing face masks.

  The store employees did not sustain any physical injuries.  Damage to the exterior windows is estimated to be in excess of $5000.00.

The same store was hit less than a month ago when Police say six suspects marched into the front door of Harmony Jewellers. After smashing the front entrance door with small sledgehammers to gain entry to the store. The suspects then used the small sledgehammers to smash several display cases. The suspects proceeded to scoop up jewellery from the cases. The suspects ran out of the store and fled in a vehicle toward Mountain Street.

Area residents and local businesses are encouraged to review their surveillance footage and contact the lead detective by dialing 905-688-4111, option 3, extension 1009341 with any relevant information.

Members of the public who wish to provide information anonymously are encouraged to contact Crime Stoppers of Niagara online or by calling 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).

The City of Hamilton has closed all programs and facilities due to the weather.

Heavy snowfall that began Saturday afternoon is expected to get worse Sunday morning, Environment Canada says, with snow continuing through the day.

Toronto's deputy mayor says he wants to drive Elon Musk's electric vehicle company Tesla out of town because of the tech mogul's affiliation with U.S. President Donald Trump, who's taken aim at Canada with a spate of recent tariff announcements.

Between 5 and 15 centimetres of snow is expected across London over the Family Day long weekend, with a risk of freezing rain in southern parts of the area. Temperatures will be on the warmer side on Saturday and Sunday with lows of -10 C, before wind chill values drop to -25 C on Monday.

Meteorologists are telling Londoners to bundle up for this year’s Family Day weekend.