Daily Archives: February 28, 2009

02.28.09
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Meth clinic to open in St. Thomas

Posted by Ian:

Have confirmation a new pharmacy will open on Monday, March 2 at the west end of Talbot Street near Tim Hortons. It will feature a meth clinic, similar to one now operating in London. In fact the facility may be owned by the same individual who operates London Medical Pharmacy’s methadone maintenance treatment centre at 528 Dundas St. E. Any further details would be appreciated.

02.28.09
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Not the end of the Sutherland Press saga

Ian McCallum

Ian McCallum


Fall-out from the protracted Talbot Street tussle has been nothing short of spectacular.
Our downtown thoroughfare has been completely closed and then partially blocked for nine months. The transit terminal was shuttered before the paint had dried following a $500,000 refurbishing, and the home of our bus fleet only re-opened Friday.
The city entered into a $150,000 contract to demolish the Sutherland Press building, a boxy tribute to the industrial era, which precipitated a judicial joust with owner David McGee– and yet the structure has survived to taunt its detractors.
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