Noon News for Saturday, November 5, 2022.

Thousands of protesters are gathering outside of Progressive Conservative MPP's offices across the province today, the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance is welcoming three new doctors to its team, and don't forget to turn your clocks back this weekend and be extra careful on the road.

Thousands of protesters are gathering outside of Progressive Conservative MPP's offices across the province today, the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance is welcoming three new doctors to its team, and don't forget to turn your clocks back this weekend and be extra careful on the road.

Education support workers across the province are hitting the picket lines today, students within the local public and Catholic school boards will both be at home today, and a Wilkesport man who pleaded guilty to a pair of weapons offenses in connection with a shooting in Wallaceburg will spend another month and a half in jail.

Time is running out for the province and the union representing education support workers to reach a deal, a man involved in a shooting in Chatham last year will be sentenced next year, and the fundraising results are in from the Maroons' annual Breast Cancer Awareness Night on Sunday.

School bus service is cancelled across the region this morning because of the foggy conditions on the road, CUPE is upping the ante in its plans to strike if it can't reach a contract agreement with the province for education support workers, and sentences have been handed down for two Chatham residents accused of second-degree murder a year ago.

Evening News for Wednesday, November 2, 2022

The province is reviewing a new offer from the union that represents education support staff in Ontario, CUPE isn't the only union taking aim at the Ford Government right now, and the Chatham-Kent Workforce Planning Board wants to hear from local business owners about their workplace challenges and successes.

Provincial officials are back at the bargaining table with union reps for Ontario's education support workers, the fundraising totals are in from this year's Tim Hortons Smile Cookie campaign locally, and construction on the Clachan Road Bridge across the Thames River is taking a little bit longer than expected.

The Ontario government's bill to impose a new contract on educational support workers is expected to pass second reading today, a Chatham-Kent family is mourning the loss of a loved one following a fatal workplace accident in Dawn-Euphemia, and a 30-year-old woman is charged with robbery after she allegedly walked into a store in Wallaceburg on Halloween and stole some candies and other merchandise.