The province says keeping the current Ontario Science Centre building open to the public even temporarily would still require the “immediate closure” of the facility along with an initial investment of $70 million in “urgent capital repairs” and another $20 to $40 million for “immediate roof repairs.”
Staff can remain at the facility over the summer in order to decommission the site by Oct. 31, the province has said. “A recent roof leak in Building C occurred in an area adjacent to an uninvestigated area, which further reinforces the ongoing risk associated with the unknown condition of these areas.”
The provincial government has issued a request for proposals for temporary space, which those opposed to the closure have labelled potentially more expensive than making the necessary repairs to the current site. A Chinese woman who was swept out to sea while swimming at a Japanese beach was rescued 37 hours later after drifting in a swimming ring more than 80 kilometres in the Pacific Ocean, officials said Thursday.
A Louisiana sheriff says a one-year-old 'miracle baby' survived two days of sometimes stormy weather before a truck driver spotted him crawling along a roadside the day after his four-year-old brother was found dead and his mother was arrested in Mississippi. A group of farmers, who expressed concern about expropriation in Wilmot Township, say they’ll keep fighting even though their latest push for answers has failed.Crews responded to the scene on Highway 24 about 10 km north of Simcoe, and said one driver was taken to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.The Mayor of Sarnia is calling on the province to help fix what he calls the, "Staffing crisis in Ontario's Community Health Sector.