Premier promises to ban public use of drugs, allow police to remove encampments
Parents arrested in death of Mooretown infant
September 17, 2021
Two people have been charged with manslaughter and criminal negligence causing death after the death of an infant in St. Clair Township last year.
Brock MacPherson, 30 of St. Clair and Elizabeth McPhail, 30 of Sarnia, were arrested Sept. 15. Both have been released on bail with future court dates.
On the afternoon of Nov. 20, 2020 OPP officers and emergency medical services were called to a house on Penrise Street in Mooretown. Nine month-old Tressa MacPherson, daughter of the pair, was found unresponsive and passed away that day.
The OPP Criminal Investigation Branch conducted the investigation which resulted in Tressa’s parents being arrested nearly 10 months later
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Premier promises to ban public use of drugs, allow police to remove encampments
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Warwick mayor says WM will have to talk cash for expansion
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Heather Wright/The Independent Waste Management may believe there isn’t a need to renegotiate the agreement it has with Warwick Township should its expansion project be approved, but the mayor begs to differ. WM held an open house Nov. 27 to give the community information about the project which will see the Twin Creeks Landfill’s life extended by 12 years. The
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Lambton politicians dismiss request to remove fluoride from water
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Helping rural women facing violence
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Cathy Dobson/The Independent A leading expert in gender-based violence says distance and isolation in rural areas make confronting intimate partner violence more difficult. That from Pamela Cross, a lawyer who has advocated for victims of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and frontline workers for more than three decades. Cross, who has an extensive knowledge about the challenges for women in rural
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