Two Tim Hortons were robbed [June 4] in Burlington, possibly by the same bandit, police say. The first robbery occurred at 1 a.m. at a Tim Hortons on Appleby Line. Halton Police said the suspect had a plastic bag and indicated he had a weapon, although none was seen. He fled with an undisclosed amount of cash and was last seen running to the rear of the store. Police and dogs tracked a scent into a townhouse complex on Bidwell Common and although evidence related to the crime was discovered the thief wasn’t apprehend, police said. About an hour later, another Tim Hortons on Brant St. was hit when a man robbed cash from a register while an employee was away from the counter. Witnesses said a suspect fled in a waiting car.

We found this article in the Toronto Star

An autopsy will be done today on the body of a man found yesterday in Lake Ontario in Oakville.He was found near Burloak Drive and Lakeshore Road.

Police are still trying to make a positive I-D, and the Burlington criminal investigations bureau has taken over the case.

They’re asking anyone with information about the discovery to call Halton Police.

We found this article in AM 900.

Kayla Cornale’s grown up in the spotlight, thanks to the gifted teen’s wins at local and international science fairs in her Burlington high school years.Now, to cap off her time at Assumption Catholic Secondary School, she’s won again — this time, a $60,000 TD Canada Trust scholarship.

You can find the complete article in the Hamilton Spectator.

Lorraine Thorne and her husband were not even settled in their new Ontario home when they got word they won the Foothills Hospital Home Lottery’s $2-million showhome in Calgary — the city they just left.

“This is just great timing, isn’t it?” Lorraine, 72, said yesterday from Oakville, Ont.

“We’re in the process of moving to Burlington”

You can read the complete article in The Calgary Sun .

Faced with a commuter logjam that could see as many as two million more vehicles on Toronto-area highways in the next 25 years, the Ontario government said yesterday it will expand the number of high-occupancy vehicle lanes on the province’s 400-series highways.Transportation Minister Donna Cansfield said the northbound high-occupancy lane on Highway 404, north of Highway 401, will open this summer and more are planned. “We need to be able to move people out of their cars, or into public transit, which frees up and manages other parts of our highways,” Cansfield said. Construction to add HOV lanes on the QEW between Oakville and Burlington is also underway.

You can read the complete article in the London Free Press

The Ontario Association of Food Banks (OAFB) and Vespa Burlington are pleased to announce the launch of Ride Away Hunger, a raffle lottery for a brand new Vespa LX50 scooter valued at more than $5,600. Three Standard Radio stations in Burlington and Hamilton - 102.9 K-Lite FM, 820 CHAM, and Oldies 1150 CKOC - are media partners for the campaign.

Proceeds from the raffle will benefit both local and provincial hunger relief efforts. “We can work to ride away hunger across the province through this initiative with Vespa Burlington,” says Adam Spence, Executive Director of the OAFB. “Hundreds of thousands of our fellow Ontarians go hungry every day. We need community members like the people at Vespa Burlington to assume a leadership role in supporting their neighbours.”

You can read the complete press release at CNW Telbec.

A 32-year-old man faces child pornography charges after police executed a search warrant on his downtown home.

Police said Internet child exploitation investigators began looking into the activities of a Burlington man in November 2006. In January, police were notified that the same individual was being investigated by police from the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre in London, England.

You can read the complete article in the Hamilton Spectator.

Ikea is recalling certain lots of its marinated herring after two customers found pieces of glass within the jars, the furniture and accessories store said Thursday.

The incidents did not occur in Canada.

The recall applies to the Dillsill, Senapssill and Inlagd sill jars of herring labelled IKEA FOOD with a best before date of 13-02-2008 and sold in the chain’s Swedish Food Markets.

The products were sold in select Ontario stores in Burlington, North York and Etobicoke. They were also available in Edmonton and Boucherville, Que.

No injuries have been reported to the company.

Consumers are asked to return the product to the store for a refund.

We found this article in CBC.ca.

Public school budgets appear to depend much more on the community than expected in an “equality”-driven system, since more than $550 million is raised each year by schools to survive, and it’s not very equitably distributed.

A report released this week looked into what, exactly, were the proceeds of school fundraising each year in Toronto, and the results were surprising.

And while Toronto’s school board raised the most in the province, the funds only work out to about $122 per student when distributed around the district.

In contrast, the Halton school board, just west of Toronto, raised $422.43 per student in the small district, covering only the affluent Oakville, Burlington and Milton-area schools.

You can read the complete article at AHN.