Just days after popular bus service Onexbus announced the ceasing of its Stratford line, another private organization announced a new stop for the Festival City, filling in a gap that had just erupted.

As snow began to blanket Stratford and area, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE)’s Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU) held a rally outside of Perth-Wellington MPP Matthew Rae’s office. Kevin Cook, first vice-president of OCHU-CUPE, said they were there for one simple reason.

Ontario Green Party leader Mike Schreiner shared some words of wisdom during the party’s first ever Perth-Wellington constituency meeting, shared to him by an unlikely source: Preston Manning, founder of the right-wing Reform Party of Canada.