News Archive: Cambridge, Ontario Stories

Sourced reference articles based on stories once published by Cambridge Now. 28 articles.

• Afghans Want Peace: Reconciliation and Music in 2013

  Cambridge Now's 2013 roundup on Afghanistan covered a fighter group laying down arms, as reported by Pajhwok, and a Youth FM peace music festival.

• Ben Pearson: Cambridge Defenceman Remembered, 2010

  Ben Pearson, a 20-year-old Cambridge hockey player, died on October 2, 2010; the Norwich Merchants raised his No. 7 jersey and retired the number.

• Best Bites 2010: Medieval Feast in Cambridge, Ontario

  Best Bites 2010 was a September 12 fundraiser at Shade's Mills in Cambridge for Cambridge Memorial Hospital and the Preston Hespeler Rotary.

• Bicycles for Humanity and Cambridge Now's Oct 2007 Story

  Reference on Bicycles for Humanity, which ships donated bikes in containers to Africa, and a Cambridge Now story listed on October 22, 2007.

• Cambridge City Asset Management: IBM and PlayBook

  Overview of the City of Cambridge's asset management project with IBM and Research In Motion, the BlackBerry PlayBook and federal Gas Tax Fund money.

• GO Rail to Cambridge: Milton Line and Freight Bypass

  Background on proposals to bring GO rail to Cambridge, Ontario via the Milton line, and why freight traffic on CP and CN tracks limits trains.

• Mayor Doug Craig's 2015 State of the City and GO Transit

  Doug Craig was mayor of Cambridge, Ontario in 2015. Background on his transit record, GO Transit lobbying and the Cambridge on the GO business case.

• Cardus and Cambridge Faith Organizations: April 2016

  Cardus listed Cambridge coverage on faith-based organizations on April 28, 2016; its Cambridge City Soul context report followed a day later.

• David Wilkins: U.S. Ambassador to Canada Interview

  David H. Wilkins, former U.S. Ambassador to Canada and speaker of the South Carolina House, was interviewed by Cambridge Now; this page profiles him.

• Gasoline Prices in Cambridge, Ontario: What Drives Them

  What sets the pump price of gasoline in Cambridge, Ontario: crude oil, refining, distribution and the fuel taxes charged in Canada.

• Gandhara and Its Early Buddhist Manuscripts, Explained

  Gandhara was an ancient region of northwestern Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan. Its birch-bark Buddhist scrolls are among the oldest known.

• GO Kitchener Line Expansion: Plans for Waterloo Region

  How GO Transit's Kitchener line grew from a 1974 Georgetown service into the corridor planned for all-day, two-way trains to Waterloo Region.

• Google Canada and Its Kitchener-Waterloo Office, 2012

  Google Canada marked ten years in 2012 with offices in Toronto, Kitchener-Waterloo and Montreal; the Kitchener site sits in the former Lang Tannery.

• Grand View Public School in Preston, Cambridge: History

  Grand View Public School at 1144 Hamilton St in Preston opened in 1923, served as a high school for years and was rebuilt in 2012.

• Great Lakes Helicopter R22 Training Accident, 2011

  In late November 2011 a Robinson R22 training helicopter run by Great Lakes Helicopter crashed near Breslau, Ontario. Notes on the aircraft and the TSB.

• Hespeler, Ontario: History of a Cambridge Neighbourhood

  Hespeler is the northeast part of Cambridge, Ontario, a former Speed River town known for woollen mills, plus a note on a Queen Street West reuse.

• Thomas Homer-Dixon and CIGI's 2008-09 Lecture Series

  Thomas Homer-Dixon, a Canadian political scientist, opened CIGI's 2008-09 Signature Lecture Series in Waterloo. Background on him and CIGI.

• Lincoln Highway and Interstate 80: A Photography Subject

  The Lincoln Highway, its replacement by Interstate 80, and the Waterloo School of Architecture in Cambridge, where a 2006 photo show was held.

• Gerry Martiniuk: Cambridge MPP, 1995–2011 Career

  Gerry Martiniuk represented Cambridge in the Ontario legislature from 1995 to 2011 and announced on October 14, 2010 that he would not seek re-election.

• Kathryn McGarry: Liberal Candidate for Cambridge, 2011

  Kathryn McGarry ran as the Ontario Liberal candidate in Cambridge and North Dumfries in 2007 and 2011 before winning the seat in 2014.

• Mike Duffy: Journalist, Senator and Expenses Case

  Profile of Mike Duffy, the CTV journalist appointed to the Senate in 2008, with the documented outcome of the Senate expenses affair and 2016 acquittal.

• Muff Mills: Cambridge Times Cartoonist, 1923 to 2007

  Albert Edward Muff Mills, editorial cartoonist for the Cambridge Times, painted bomber nose art in the RCAF and died in Cambridge on March 7, 2007.

• Murdoch Mysteries Filming in Cambridge, Ontario (2008)

  In August 2008 Cambridge Now reported that Murdoch Mysteries was filming season two in Galt, turning downtown Cambridge into an 1890s Toronto street.

• Preston Neighbourhood Market, Cambridge, Ontario (2009)

  A reference on the Preston neighbourhood market in Cambridge, Ontario, reported in 2009 as entering its second year, and the Preston area it served.

• Prince Andrew's 2007 Visit to Cambridge, Ontario

  In May 2007 Prince Andrew visited Cambridge, Ontario, home of companies of the Royal Highland Fusiliers of Canada, where he served as Colonel-in-Chief.

• Susan Dion of York University on Storytelling and Identity

  York University professor Susan Dion, a specialist in Indigenous education, was mentioned in Cambridge Now on July 21, 2015 on storytelling.

• Waterloo Region Fluoride Plebiscite and Fluoridation

  Reference on water fluoridation in Waterloo Region: how it works, the 2010 non-binding plebiscite that ended it, and Canadian guidance.

• Waterloo Region Rapid Transit and Growth Corridor Plan

  How Waterloo Region tied rapid transit to compact growth: the 2004 study, the June 2009 council vote for light rail, staging and the Cambridge link.