Jeff Outhit
WR Record
Ontario, Canada
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Deaths fell but hospitalizations surged in Waterloo Region in third year of the COVID-19 pandemic
WATERLOO REGION — More people were admitted to hospital but did not die as the pandemic ground through its third year. Friday marked the conclusion of three years since the global pandemic was declared on March 11, 2020. The disease was a direct or contributing cause in the deaths of 515 residents in the region. Most of those who died were older than 80. Just six were younger than 40. Deaths and… → Read More
Lisa LaFlamme feels hometown love, but like other journalists has faced vitriolic online attacks
WATERLOO REGION — Former CTV anchor Lisa LaFlamme spoke online to a hometown audience and felt the love. “I think way too much importance is put on appearance and that has to change,” she said Wednesday, talking about women in the media as part of a Zoom discussion held on International Women’s Day. Hearts and hands filled the screen as the online audience applauded. “I do try to mentor young… → Read More
Flair Airlines adds new flights but trims others at Region of Waterloo International Airport
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Credibility of Ford government is at risk over latest Highway 7 delay, chamber of commerce says
Province has delayed work to replace the Frederick Street bridge, which is required to support a new highway → Read More
Is Waterloo adding too many highrises, packed too closely? Neighbouring tower developers spar over wind, sunlight, and privacy
Four more highrise towers are proposed in Waterloo as the fast-growing city continues to reach for the sky. → Read More
Different: What it’s like to be Black in a white school in Waterloo Region
Data shows school boards are overwhelmingly white, change is slow, and teacher diversity is a distant goal → Read More
Three more seniors die of COVID-19 as ‘Kraken’ version surges in Waterloo Region
WATERLOO REGION — Three more seniors have died of COVID-19 as hospitalizations for the disease stabilize at a medium level. The death toll has increased to 515 people since the pandemic began almost three years ago, counting deaths where COVID was a direct or contributing cause. The latest victims are a man in his 70s, a woman in her 70s, and a woman in her 80s, the regional public health unit… → Read More
Water and shade are coming to the concrete oasis in Waterloo’s downtown
WATERLOO — It seems this will be the first summer of water and shade at the sun-baked public square in Waterloo’s downtown, thanks to upgrades costing more than $2 million. City council votes Monday to confirm a construction tender for a water feature delayed 14 years since the opening of the concrete square in 2009. It is described as a wall of water that falls into four cascading pools,… → Read More
Miltons restaurant closes in Kitchener after boycott and community outrage
KITCHENER — Miltons Restaurant has closed but remains for sale at a reduced price, after two brothers who operated it sparked outrage by forcefully removing a customer and his service dog in 2021. The incident, captured on video, led to a boycott and a torrent of bad publicity. In the days that followed, people gathered outside the restaurant with signs, urging people not to support the… → Read More
17 new dwellings replace every demolished home as Waterloo intensifies its housing
Housing redevelopment has reached a six-year high in Waterloo → Read More
Waterloo Region announces four more COVID deaths among people older than 70
Hospitalizations trend down to a level that is typical for the three-year pandemic → Read More
Roundabout safety back in the spotlight in Cambridge
CAMBRIDGE — The safety of Franklin Boulevard roundabouts is back in the spotlight and Coun. Doug Craig knows where he stands. “Roundabouts are just safer than (traffic) lights, in terms of pedestrian crossings and also vehicular accidents,” he said. “But what we have to do is to convince people that they are.” This persuasion must happen before regional government revives a long-delayed plan to… → Read More
Police charge Woolwich Township man in connection to death threat against MP Tim Louis
WATERLOO REGION — Member of Parliament Tim Louis is the latest politician to feel threatened by a member of the public. The online death threat Louis says he received has led Waterloo Regional Police to charge a Woolwich Township man, 44, with uttering threats to cause death. Louis is a Liberal government MP for the riding of Kitchener-Conestoga. In a statement Monday, Louis said his office… → Read More
Historic Waterloo pumping station faces overhaul to help make it into gateway to the downtown
The one-storey, yellow-brick pumping station was built in 1899 on William Street and is still used to distribute drinking water → Read More
Two more apartment buildings proposed to replace six houses in central Waterloo
WATERLOO REGION — Waterloo council on Monday will consider two more apartment buildings proposed in the region’s tallest and fastest-growing neighbourhood. The buildings, one at six storeys and one at eight storeys, would add 191 apartments and replace six detached houses in the campus-area Northdale neighbourhood. City council has been asked to tweak planning rules on parking, entrances,… → Read More
COVID-19 kills a man in his 30s, a rare death at that age in Waterloo Region
Only seven deaths out of 505 have involved someone younger than 40 → Read More
Flair stops Kitchener-Montreal flights ‘for the time being’
Airline says it is committed to Region of Waterloo International Airport → Read More
Plan for 179 townhouses comes under fire as Waterloo council weighs three big housing projects
Housing proposals would continue to alter the Waterloo skyline while growing the city’s occupied dwellings by 10 per cent → Read More
How Flair, Swoop, and Air Canada turned Mexican vacation into a ‘disaster’ for Hamilton family
WATERLOO REGION — Not one, not two, but three Canadian airlines blindsided Alaa Sakr on the same day as she scrambled to get her family home from their Mexican vacation. She’s out of pocket about $2,500 after airlines put her family through two cancelled flights and a lengthy delay that caused an overnight layover. “What happened is a disaster,” the Hamilton woman said, arguing the federal… → Read More
‘I am absolutely never flying Flair again,’ Elmira man says after airline cancels flight home from Mexico
Flair Airlines told passengers to wait seven days for another flight, and provided nothing for hotels or meals. → Read More