http://www.brantfordexpositor.caRecent Local Newsen-usCopyright: (c) 2008 www.brantfordexpositor.ca, All rights reserved.http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1187823The root of the deadly listeriosis outbreak that's caused 13 deaths may have been an accumulation of bacteria in slicing equipment at a Maple Leaf Foods plant, CEO Michael McCain said Friday night at a hastily-scheduled news conference. An investigation has indicated that the Listeria bacterium may have [...]Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:00:00 GMThttp://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1187823http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1187806As a citizen of Brantford, I praise the men and women of our Brantford police services. I'm all over town and always spot a cruiser. Only one thing I don't understand. If I see 25 vehicles, only five use their direction lights, regarding making a left or right [...]Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMThttp://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1187806http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1187809Two cardboard evidence boxes sit perched atop a two-metre-high metal shelving unit in the evidence storage room at the Brantford police station. Most boxes don't hang around for a quarter of a century. These are special. They hold physical evidence, reports and witness statements pertaining to an unsolved [...]Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMThttp://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1187809http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1187827On Sunday, the prime minister and the Governor General will meet to dissolve the current Canadian Parliament. This decision means that by the end of October, we could see a new set of faces in the House of Commons and some constituency offices throughout the country. However, even [...]Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMThttp://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1187827http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1187858Cut the police some slack, OPP Commissioner Julian Fantino told more than 100 people at Friday's Rotary luncheon. Officers are just as frustrated as anyone about the conflicts over native land claims. The province's top cop shared some of his thoughts on the recent Caledonia blockade, the [...]Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMThttp://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1187858http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1185899Impressive and classy are among the words Brant County politicians are using to describe an artist's rendering of the municipality's proposed new twin-pad arena. "I was really impressed when I first saw it," said Coun. Brian Coleman, chairman of Brant's twin-pad building committee. "I think the public will [...]Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMThttp://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1185899http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1185903Even though she was clad in a green plaid hat, a wildly-patterned necktie and a cape fashioned from a bargain-priced curtain, Danielle Reeves didn't really stand out from the crowd gathered at Victoria Park on Thursday. Wacky get-ups were standard issue at Laurier Brantford's faculty lunch meet and [...]Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMThttp://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1185903http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1184241A city man has been arrested in connection with one of three shootings early Wednesday morning in Eagle Place. No one was hurt in the incidents and the only casualties appear to be a car, a van and a house. All of the incidents occurred within a [...]Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMThttp://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1184241http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1184278Drinking fountains in 17 area schools have been turned off after unacceptable levels of lead were found during routine testing this summer. Officials at both the public and Catholic school boards said the higher lead levels likely can be attributed to the schools sitting unused over the summer. [...]Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMThttp://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1184278http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1184280Peggy Turkey always considered her neighbourhood safe -- until bullets blasted through two windows at the front of her Superior Street home early Wednesday morning. "I'm a little bit scared," she said Wednesday night, speaking hesitantly through the partially open door of her home at 81 Superior St. [...]Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMThttp://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1184280