Who knew #ldnont was home to a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. Former @washingtonpost +@Newsday reporter B.D. Colen was also a celebrated photographer who taught his craft for years at @MIT. He snapped this photo last week at @WesternFair last week. 🧵1/ His list of achievements are too long to name here, but you're in luck. He's teaching a workshop w/ the Bayfield Fall Foto Festival. His street photography segment is at the Goderich Library on Sat at 3. Info: pcob.ca/blank. You may have seen this photo.⤵️ 2/

1. A parking thread. Are you heading to Port Stanley this summer? There are some new parking rules you should know about. Fees have kicked in at more lots and if you get nailed by a ticket, it'll cost you more. #ldnont

Photo: @CEBeachRescue 2. You'll have to pay at all of these municipal lots now.

1. WARNING. This story contains graphic details. A woman is sharing her story about a longtime St. Thomas music teacher. Eugene Francois, 59, operated a popular music studio in the city and in 2021, was charged with trafficking + sexual assault.

cbc.ca/news/canada/lo… 2. Then this week, @STPSmedia announced 16 more charges in relation to 10 victims. They include voyeurism, making child pornography + possession of child pornography. We spoke to an alleged victim. She says she was secretly filmed while at a recording studio.

1. Check out this amazing story by @KateDubinski about an incredible daycare + family centre in London. It's Indigenous-led +caters to urban Indigenous families. LOOK AT THESE FACES. Joy. #LdnOnt

This is Lorna Chrysler + her son, Darryl Wright, 5,

cbc.ca/news/canada/lo… 2. This is Dawn Redskey. Her one-year-old son, Robin Redskye-McKinstry goes to the daycare. The first thing Dawn noticed when she walked into the Nshwaasnangong Child Care and Family Centre was the smell of smudge in the air.

1. Yesterday, we aired a story about a woman who collects human skulls. Many of you were troubled by the story, including @cwilliamg. He says overwhelmingly, the human remains that are bought + sold online are Indigenous. 2. The practice of buying and selling remains suggests that Indigenous people, "are still for and worth putting on display and it continues to dehumanize us as people," said Cody Groat, who is Mohawk from Six Nations of the Grand River. @westernuHistory

1. According to @djjohnso, 180 people died homeless in Toronto in 2021. @SanctuaryTO has never added more names to the Homeless Memorial in one year. The community is facing compounding grief, says outreach worker, @lorrainelamchop. This is Daisy Warriner, 24. She died in Nov. 2. Daisy's aunt + grandma raised her. Stephanie, her birth mom, had struggled + couldn't care for her. “We are a story of generational system failures," said aunt Denise Warriner. Stephanie died last year. That story is also tragic. Here's Daisy + her mom

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1. Today on @metromorning, two takes on omicron. One from @COVIDSciOntario's Dr. Peter Juni. Another from @DrJacobsRad, a radiologist @HRHospital. One is worried hospitals will soon be overwhelmed. The other is not. Here's a little more about that. 2. “In the next few days, we will start to see an uptick in patients admitted for Omicron infections," said Juni. Plus, protection against the virus for those with two-doses is waning, he warned. (However, note: protection against hospitalizations remains relatively steady.)