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		<title>Port Stanley Terminal Rail Santa Specials</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>London seeking $150 million offered Ford Canada&#8217;s St. Thomas Assembly Plant</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by Ian: St. Thomas and Elgin county lose the Ford plant and as a result the economic impact will be compounded via support operations like Lear Seating, trucking companies and CN who relied heavily on the St. Thomas Assembly Plant and yet London wants the entire $150 million offered by the province for its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ianscityscope.wordpress.com&blog=5357643&post=1992&subd=ianscityscope&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Elderly man loses out in vehicle-pedestrian conflict on Elm St.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
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City staff have come up with a solution to unsafe crosswalks dotting the city &#8230; get rid of them.
Supervisor of Roads and Transportation David White will stand before council Monday to recommend &#8220;the removal of the pavement markings at existing Courtesy Pedestrian Crossings (17 in total including the one in front of St. Thomas-Elgin General [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ianscityscope.wordpress.com&blog=5357643&post=1984&subd=ianscityscope&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A future without Ford &#8211; the new reality</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Kyle Rea
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 As fallout continues from the news that Ford&#8217;s St. Thomas Assembly Plant will shut its doors in fall 2011, three of the biggest casualties locally &#8212; Southwold township, the Lear Seating plant and the Elgin-St. Thomas United Way &#8212; are taking a look at a future without the plant.
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		<title>Elgin county Warden adds voice to those calling for moratorium on hospital cuts and closures</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
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The Ontario Health Coalition; Friends of Four Counties Hospital; Mayor of West Elgin and Warden of Elgin-County, Graham Warwick;and former city councilor of Newbury, Monte McNaughton criticized the McGuinty government&#8217;s plans for its Rural and Northern Health Panel for lack of public consultations. Noting that many devastating cuts and closures are already underway, the group [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ianscityscope.wordpress.com&blog=5357643&post=1975&subd=ianscityscope&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ford&#8217;s closure of St. Thomas assembly plant to affect thousands of spinoff jobs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
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TORONTO — The impact of the closure of a Ford assembly plant in southwestern Ontario will extend far beyond the plant itself, costing the region thousands of spinoff jobs and millions of dollars in tax revenue, according to union officials and local politicians.
Ford (NYSE:F) announced Friday the plant in St. Thomas, near London, will close [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ianscityscope.wordpress.com&blog=5357643&post=1972&subd=ianscityscope&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ford turns up nose at unprecedented offer to save St. Thomas Assembly Plant</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ In a last-ditch effort to save the St. Thomas assembly plant, the province and Canadian Auto Workers made offers of cash and unprecedented concessions &#8212; but Ford Motor Co. said no.
The province offered as much as $150 million and the union told the company to cherry-pick details of any collective agreement and put it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ianscityscope.wordpress.com&blog=5357643&post=1969&subd=ianscityscope&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>80% of CAW Local 1520 membership vote in favour of new deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ TORONTO, Nov. 1 /PRNewswire/ &#8211; Thousands of CAW members working at Ford facilities in Oakville, Windsor, St. Thomas and Bramalea have voted in favour of a new agreement, ratifying the deal by 83 per cent during a series of meetings held over the past two days. The deal was reached on October 30 between [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ianscityscope.wordpress.com&blog=5357643&post=1965&subd=ianscityscope&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>St. Thomas-Elgin Branch of ACO applauds preservation of Elgin County Courthouse</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
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Members of the St. Thomas-Elgin branch of the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario applaud the decision to preserve the historic Elgin County Courthouse by consolidating the Ontario Court of Justice and the Superior Court of Justice under one roof.
“We&#8217;re thrilled that the project preserves the heritage of the 1853 courthouse,” branch president Suzanne van Bommel said. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ianscityscope.wordpress.com&blog=5357643&post=1955&subd=ianscityscope&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Samsung&#8217;s turbine deal with Ontario in jeopardy</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ontario government&#8217;s multi-billion-dollar wind turbine deal with South Korean industrial giant Samsung Group is in jeopardy after a power play in Premier Dalton McGuinty&#8217;s cabinet, the Toronto Star has learned.
Sources say rival ministers opposed to Deputy Premier George Smitherman&#8217;s pet scheme, which they fear will mean &#8220;billions&#8221; of dollars in subsidies to Samsung, have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ianscityscope.wordpress.com&blog=5357643&post=1952&subd=ianscityscope&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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