Wanted: volunteers to help sell daffodils    
Updated 10 hours ago
The Brant-Norfolk unit of the Canadian Cancer Society is looking for volunteers to sell daffodils later this month. A sign of spring and the Cancer Society's "symbol of hope" for more the 50 years, the daffodil is a big seller for the local society. [more]

Tributes flow online for slain police officer    
Updated 10 hours ago
Thousands of people -- strangers, friends old and new and police officers -- have expressed condolences to the family of slain Huron OPP Const. Vu Pham. [more]

Pair sent to prison in robbery    
Updated 10 hours ago
A man and a woman who robbed a 69-year-old vegetable farmer are headed to penitentiary. Kenneth Halliday, 39, of Brantford, was sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison and time served for his part in the home-invasion style robbery last November of the Middle Townline Road farmer. [more]

Vegas a la carte    
Posted 13 hours ago
You know the old saying what happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas? Not the food! After a whirlwind tour and dining marathon, I discovered there's more to Vegas than slots, sin and sensational shows -- the place has an excess of awesome eateries. [more]

Eagles score often against Dutchies    
Updated 10 hours ago
The Brantford Golden Eagles are one win away from advancing in the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League's Mid-Western Conference playoffs. Brantford can clinch a spot in a best-of-seven semifinal series with a win on Thursday at the civic centre at 7:30 p. [more]

Speedy opponent ousts Trojans    
Updated 10 hours ago
North Park Collegiate's run at the Ontario Federation of School Athletic Associations senior boys basketball AAA championships in Kingston is over. The Trojans were eliminated Tuesday after a 42-28 loss to a tough Toronto team from Jarvis Collegiate that was played at Queen's University. [more]

Women urged to speak up about abuse this International Woman's Day    
Updated 10 hours ago
If you can't talk about it, you can't change it. That was the message that journalist Sally Armstrong delivered to a sold-out crowd of 300 women gathered at the Best Western Brant Park Inn on Monday to celebrate International Women's Day. [more]

Suspect known as a 'nice guy'    
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The 70-year-old man identified as the suspect in the shooting death Monday of a Huron OPP constable is a retired logger whose marriage recently fell apart, a work colleague says. The SIU Tuesday identified the suspect as Fred Preston of Burk's Falls, Ont. [more]

Money shuffled to pay for treatment plant fix    
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The city will take $5 million from its water treatment reserve fund to help pay for repairs to the Holmedale water treatment plant, after council approved a resolution to that effect on Monday night. [more]

Letters to the editor   
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You can pay but climate change won't go away The other day, when I was flipping channels hoping to find some intelligent comments on the budget, I happened to hear Jack Layton criticize: "There is nothing in the budget about climate change. [more]

Ideas pitched to strengthen the tree bylaw    
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A small but hardy band of arboreal advocates came out Tuesday in a bid to strengthen the city's nine-year-old bylaw protecting trees in private woodlots. [more]

Ontario natives join club for broken Liberal promises    
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It really didn't matter what was in the speech read by Lt.-Gov. David Onley on Monday afternoon; there was no way it was going to please everybody. That is standard fare when it comes to throne speeches. [more]

Mohawk considers all options for future    
Updated 10 hours ago
Mohawk College is proud to have served students and employers in Brantford since the early 1970s, when we were the first postsecondary institution to open our doors in the city. [more]

Broadening his horizons    
Posted 13 hours ago
Robert Pattinson admits he was in denial when he signed up for the tragic-rebel/romance film,Remember Me. Yes,Twilighthad just come out. [more]

Groups push for greenbelt expansion    
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A push to get the Dalton McGuinty government to approve a major expansion of the greenbelt westward through Brant County and in other directions in southern Ontario is gaining fresh energy with the entry of new groups and controversial development activities. [more]

OMB to decide fate of Penman project    
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Developers seeking to build an apartment complex on the former Penman brownfield site and the project's opponents are heading to a full Ontario Municipal Board hearing in July On Tuesday, a pre-hearing co-ordinator heard Tuesday that differences remain over the proposed development of the vacant [more]

Funding set aside for waterfront plan    
Updated 10 hours ago
City council is setting up a multi-million-dollar reserve fund, after all, to pay for projects under the proposed waterfront master plan. Council has reversed itself two weeks after defeating on a 5-5 tie vote a resolution from Coun. [more]

Six Nations firm lands contract    
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A Six Nations company has been awarded a contract to construct a campus for a post-secondary institution in Manitoba. [more]

Full-day kindergarten will create funding shortfall for public board    
Updated 10 hours ago
The Grand Erie District School Board could be looking at a $500,000 shortfall in funding for the first year of full-day kindergarten. [more]