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Longtime Chatham-Kent councillor Steve Pinsonneault won Thursday's Lambton-Kent-Middlesex by a landslide, despite low voter turnout. The winning ticket for the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance Foundation's Spring 50/50 was worth almost $75K. The federal government is providing $104M to help Toronto host six World Cup games in 2026.

Voter turnout in Thursday's Lambton-Kent-Middlesex by-election was way down. Time is running out for youth to apply for a $1,000 award from the Chatham-Kent YMCA. Ontario is expanding the powers of midwives. The winner of the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance Foundation's Spring 50/50 is taking home almost $75K.

The acting medical officer of health in Chatham-Kent says the municipality has an obesity problem, several events are taking place in downtown Chatham this weekend to honour missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada, and a draw will take place this hour for the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance Foundation's Spring 50/50 fundraiser.

Two big wins for the Progressive Conservatives in a pair of byelections in Ontario last night, voter turnout in both of those byelections was way down compared to the results from the general election two years ago, and the damage is estimated at up to $200,000 and a firefighter reported a minor injury after a house fire on O’Neil Street in Chatham.

A Chatham-Kent councillor whose motion to review the make-up of municipal council was shot down is leaving the door open to revisiting the issue, voting stations across Lambton-Kent-Middlesex are open for the provincial byelection, and OPP are investigating after a 28-year-old motorcyclist was killed in a two-vehicle crash in the Leamington-area.

The polls open at 9 o'clock this morning in the Lambton-Kent-Middlesex by-election, a 22-year-old Chatham woman is facing impaired driving charges after a single-vehicle crash on Highway 40 between Chatham and Wallaceburg, and it's almost time for drivers to start their engines at the Southern Ontario Motor Speedway in Buxton.

No visit from the Premier after all in Wallaceburg, Ontario is looking to put students who want a job in the trades on a fast track to getting a career, and the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation is expecting a busier housing market in southwestern Ontario next year.

Morning News for Wednesday, May 1, 2024