The newly elected County of Brant council meets today, Tuesday, Nov. 10, at 9 a.m. for a Council Education Session at the Wilkin Family Community Centre, 169 Grand River Street North, Paris.

The posted agenda covers committee structures and appointments, the nominating committee, strong-mayor powers, the procedural by-law, by-laws and resolutions, MFIPPA, the council portal, the code of conduct, the Conflict of Interest Act, the inaugural meeting and the Nov. 24 council meeting.

The new council term begins Sunday, Nov. 15. The County’s Oct. 28 certified-results notice tentatively schedules the inaugural meeting for Monday, Nov. 16. As of Monday evening, a dated inaugural agenda had not yet been posted on the County’s meeting calendar.

The County of Brant O.P.P. Detachment Board held a special meeting Monday afternoon. The agenda included a staff report on a draft 2027 board operating budget of $40,300 (0 per cent change from 2026), covering board costs such as training, travel, insurance, memberships and community engagement — not OPP policing-contract costs. No minutes or vote record had been published by Monday evening; this edition reports only that the draft was considered, not that it was approved. The board’s next regular meeting is Tuesday, Dec. 8, at 9 a.m.

Council Education Session agenda · OPP Detachment Board special meeting agenda · County certified results, Oct. 28

The Brantford–Brant South federal by-election, which includes the southern County, is Monday, Dec. 7. Five candidates have been named so far; nominations close Monday, Nov. 16, at 2 p.m. The field and voting times, Beyond Brant, page 20.

Roads to watch this week

• Grand River Street North at Watts Pond Road, Paris: storm-main work. The eastbound lane of Watts Pond Road is closed at the intersection.
• Governors Road East: the eastbound lane is closed from Dundas Street East to about 100 metres east for sanitary-main work, expected into late November or December. Eastbound traffic is detoured via Paris Road.
• Pottruff Road, Paris: field investigations run until Nov. 20. Lane restrictions are possible; access to homes and businesses stays open.
• Wednesday: Remembrance closures in Burford, Paris and St. George, 10:30–11:30 a.m. (page 12).

County of Brant news and notices · Municipal 511

After the services

In Burford, snacks and refreshments are served at the Legion. In St. George, Branch 605 serves light refreshments, announces its Poster and Literary Contest winners and hosts music by Dave Souliere and Friends.

The County asks drivers to allow extra travel time and to follow posted signs and directions from event officials. Questions about the closures go to Olga Denisova, the County’s special events and filming coordinator, at olga.denisova@brant.ca.

A centennial year for the Legion

This year’s services fall in the 100th year of the Royal Canadian Legion, founded July 17, 1926. To mark it, the County has added commemorative crosswalks and banners at the local branches: a painted crosswalk at the driveway of South Brant Legion Branch 90 in Oakland, one at Park Avenue and King Street for Branch 543 in Burford and one at Grand River Street North and Mechanic Street for Branch 29 in Paris. St. George Branch 605 commissioned a new mural on its building, funded through the Community Improvement Plan.

County of Brant: Remembrance and Veterans · County notice, Nov. 5

Paris Mounties • PJHL

The Paris Mounties lost 3–2 in overtime at home to the Tavistock Braves on Saturday, Nov. 7, Heart FM reported. Tavistock leads the Doherty Division; Paris sits last with 12 points. The Mounties’ next home game is Saturday, Nov. 14, at 7:30 p.m. against the New Hamburg Firebirds at the Brant Sports Complex. They also host Wellesley on Monday, Nov. 16, at 7:30 p.m.

Marcie Culbert • 104.7 Heart FM, Nov. 9 · Brant Events: Mounties home games

Burford Minor Hockey • Sunday and Monday results

• U18: Burford lost 1–4 to Ayr Flames U18-2 on Sunday at 4:30 p.m.
• U8 MD: tied Delhi-Norwich 59ers 0–0 on Sunday at 2:30 p.m.
• U21: beat Simcoe Warriors U21 4–3 on Sunday at 9:30 p.m.

U15 Team 2: won 2–1 at the Waterford Wildcats on Monday at 8 p.m., a 2–1 FINAL on the club’s latest scores.

This week: U11 at Tillsonburg tonight (Tue.) at 6 p.m.; Wednesday at Burford Arena — U15 Team 2 vs Port Dover at 7 p.m. and U18 vs Six Nations at 8:15 p.m.

Burford Minor Hockey

AABHN • volleyball and girls basketball semis today

Results are pending for Tuesday’s semifinals. Senior boys volleyball: Paris District at BCI, 3:30 p.m.; Assumption at North Park after the junior game. Junior boys: Paris District at St. John’s, 1:30 p.m.; Assumption at North Park, 3:30 p.m. Senior girls basketball: BCI at Assumption and North Park at St. John’s, both 5:30 p.m. Junior girls: BCI at St. John’s and MPSS at Assumption, both 4 p.m. Championships are Thursday, Nov. 12 (times and places still to be set).

Brian Smiley • Brantford Expositor, volleyball · Brian Smiley • Brantford Expositor, girls basketball

Brantford Bulldogs • FINAL 5–2 at Oshawa

Sunday’s road win was a 5–2 FINAL over the Oshawa Generals. The Bulldogs improved to 13-5-0-1 and reclaimed first place in the OHL’s Eastern Conference, the Expositor and the club reported. Next: Friday, Nov. 13, at 7:07 p.m. at Guelph; Saturday, Nov. 14, at 7 p.m. at home vs Oshawa at the TD Civic Centre.

OHL: Bulldogs game report, Nov. 8 · Brantford Expositor

St. George Ravens (GMHL): 7–0 over Richmond Hill and 6–1 over Durham; now 9-7-0-0. Home Friday, Nov. 13, 7:30 p.m. vs North York and Sunday, Nov. 15, 3 p.m. vs Orangeville, Gaukel Memorial. (Details, page 6.)

Paris Mounties (PJHL): three losses last week, 6–2 to New Hamburg, 3–2 in overtime to Tavistock and 6–1 to Wellesley; now 4-11-3-0. Dimitri Eleftheriadis scored in all three games. Home Saturday, Nov. 14, vs New Hamburg and Monday, Nov. 16, vs Wellesley, both 7:30 p.m. at the Brant Sports Complex.

Brant County Riverhawks (NPHL): at Tilbury on Saturday, Nov. 14, at 7:30 p.m.

Beyond Brant • Brantford Titans (GOHL): lost 5–4 in overtime to Welland and beat Stoney Creek 5–4; now 3-15-2-0, 11th of 12 in the East. Home at the Gretzky Centre Thursday, 7:30 p.m. vs Elmira and Friday, 7 p.m. vs Stoney Creek.

Beyond Brant • Caledonia Corvairs (GOHL): beat Port Colborne 7–2 and Pelham 5–3; tied with Cambridge for first in the East at 16-2-1-0. At Fort Erie Saturday, 7 p.m.

Wilfrid Laurier University hopes to open a law school at its Brantford campus by fall 2028, once the approvals are complete, CBC News reported Monday. The University of Guelph is proposing a second new school on the same timeline.

Both schools would focus on serving rural communities. The Brantford school would also focus on improving access to justice in Indigenous communities.

Poonam Puri has been appointed special adviser to Laurier’s provost to help develop the proposed Faculty of Law and its Juris Doctor program. She told CBC that south-central Ontario is one of the most densely populated regions of the province without a law school, and that one goal is to encourage graduates to stay in Brantford and in other small and mid-sized communities.

Puri said programs already on the Brantford campus, including criminology, law and society, and Indigenous studies, fit the plan. Jennifer S. Rooke, chair of the Federation of Ontario Law Associations, told CBC that rural communities outside the Greater Toronto Area face a shortage of criminal and family lawyers.

Lauren Kuivenhoven • CBC News, Nov. 9

Brantford’s vigil begins tonight

Cadets stand vigil at the Brant War Memorial, 6 Dalhousie St., from 6 p.m. to midnight tonight and from 7 to 11 a.m. Wednesday. A walking march leaves Harmony Square at 10:40 a.m., and the Civic Service of Remembrance begins at 10:50 a.m., with a Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum fly-past planned, weather permitting. Downtown municipal lots are free from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., and Brantford Transit fares are waived for those attending.

Kimberly de Jong, Local Journalism Initiative • BrantBeacon, Nov. 5

After a second fire, the old TH&B station’s future is in doubt

The former Toronto, Hamilton and Buffalo Railway station on Market Street South has now been damaged by two fires in 18 months, and its future is in doubt, CTV News Kitchener reported Sunday.

The most recent fire broke out late on Oct. 22. Firefighters found heavy flames through the roof of the boarded-up building, the Brantford Expositor reported at the time. No one was hurt.

The station was built in 1896 and expanded in 1906. It later became the Iron Horse Restaurant and has been vacant for more than 20 years. The city designated the oldest parts of the building under the Ontario Heritage Act in 2019. A conditional site plan approved in March 2023 for an eight-storey, 163-unit building on the property requires a conservation plan for the station before construction starts.

Hannah Schmidt • CTV News Kitchener, Nov. 8 · Brian Thompson and Michelle Ruby • Brantford Expositor, Oct. 23

Five names so far in Brantford–Brant South; the field may still grow

The federal by-election in Brantford–Brant South, a riding that includes the southern County, has five candidates named so far: Conservative Kevin Davis, Liberal Joy O’Donnell, Independent Dave Carrol, Brad Ward, the expected NDP candidate, and Green Kathryn Kissinger, whom the Green Party of Canada named on Nov. 6, CTV News reported. Ward was to be nominated at a Nov. 7 NDP meeting; that result has not been independently confirmed.

A candidates’ meeting organized by the Chamber of Commerce Brantford-Brant and the Brantford Home Builders Association was recorded Monday at Rogers TV and is to air on Rogers before the Dec. 7 vote, the Expositor reported ahead of the session. No coverage of what was said has been found.

Nominations close Monday, Nov. 16, at 2 p.m., so the field could still change. Advance polls are Friday, Nov. 27, to Monday, Nov. 30, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Election day is Monday, Dec. 7, from 9:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. The local Elections Canada office is at 102 Wellington St., Brantford. The northern County is in Flamborough–Glanbrook–Brant North. Check your riding with Elections Canada.

Brantford Expositor, Nov. 5 · Shelby Knox • CTV News Kitchener, Nov. 6 · Elections Canada: ways to vote

Police ask for help finding a missing 16-year-old

As of Monday morning, Brantford police were asking for help finding Alara, 16, who was last seen at about 10:53 a.m. on Saturday near Blackburn Drive. Police say she may have travelled to Hamilton. She is described as white, with long brown hair, and was last seen wearing a light blue knit sweater, dark blue jeans, white and black shoes, pink sunglasses and a grey and black backpack. Anyone with information is asked to call Brantford police at 519-756-7050 and quote occurrence BR26045479.

CHCH News, Nov. 9

Purple benches mark a campaign on relationship violence

The City of Brantford, Nova Vita Domestic Violence Prevention Services, Brantford Police Service and the BRAVE Committee have launched the Relationships Should Feel Safe campaign. Three purple benches carry Nova Vita’s 24-hour crisis and support line: at Nova Vita, 59 North Park St.; at the W Lounge at Woodman Park Community Centre, 491 Grey St.; and at the police station, 344 Elgin St., where one will be installed as construction continues. November is Woman Abuse Prevention Month.

Michael Stamou • BrantBeacon, Nov. 2

Which riding are you in? The southern County is in Brantford–Brant South. The northern County is in Flamborough–Glanbrook–Brant North, which has no by-election. Check your address with Elections Canada’s postal-code search before you plan to vote.

Other ways to vote. Elections Canada also offers voting at its local office and voting by mail with a special ballot. Its local office is at 102 Wellington St., Brantford. Check Elections Canada for the deadline to apply for a mail-in ballot in this by-election.

Bring ID. Elections Canada lists the accepted ID on its website. Voters without it may be able to have someone who knows them vouch for them. Check the list before you go.

Not registered? You can register online or at the polling place. Elections Canada mails voter information cards to registered electors.

Tariffs and Brant County

The most recent County-specific tariff reporting found is from this summer, not this week. On July 23, the Expositor reported that FedDev Ontario had announced $8.9 million for seven Brantford-Brant firms under its Regional Tariff Response Initiative, part of a $40.5-million package for 23 Ontario businesses. In the County, Cravo Equipment on White Swan Road received $400,000 toward a $1.3-million plan to expand its retractable-roof greenhouse systems into new markets; Walters Inc. in Princeton received $700,000 toward a $2.9-million upgrade; and Burford’s Fowler Metal Industries received $305,000 toward a $610,000 project. On Aug. 26, Chamber of Commerce Brantford-Brant CEO David Prang told the Expositor that tariffs would be felt across the supply chain after Canada–U.S. trade talks collapsed. No newer County-specific tariff story was found for this edition.

Susan Gamble • Brantford Expositor, July 23 · Susan Gamble • Brantford Expositor, Aug. 26

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