The LocalSKIM for Thursday, August 13

  • Brock University has joined the University of Toronto, Western University and Ontario Tech University as being the latest to announce that individuals stepping onto campus will need to be vaccinated. Brock University previously had said that only those who will be living on campus and students athletes would be required to be vaccinated. (610 CKTB)
  • Police have confirmed the body found floating near Niagara-on-the-Lake last Thursday is the missing 27 year old man who disappeared in the Niagara River after trying to help a friend who was in distress in the water on the Civic holiday weekend. (610 CKTB)
  • The City of St. Catharines has charged Bayshore Groups’ numbered company and its directors for demolishing the landmark smokestack at the former General Motors property on Ontario Street earlier this year without a permit. (St. Catharines Standard)