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    This document summarizes a local newspaper from London, Ontario dated January 4, 2018. The main stories discussed are: 1) A senior Chatham-Kent police officer quitting the force after costing taxpayers nearly $400,000 while suspended with pay for over 3 years facing fraud charges; 2) Utilities in the region scrambling to collect unpaid bills that have mounted as customers struggle with the deep freeze; and 3) Ongoing cold temperatures expected to last into the weekend putting stress on utilities.

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    This document summarizes a local newspaper from London, Ontario dated January 4, 2018. The main stories discussed are: 1) A senior Chatham-Kent police officer quitting the force after costing taxpayers nearly $400,000 while suspended with pay for over 3 years facing fraud charges; 2) Utilities in the region scrambling to collect unpaid bills that have mounted as customers struggle with the deep freeze; and 3) Ongoing cold temperatures expected to last into the weekend putting stress on utilities.

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    cold cash amid deep freeze
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    The London Free Press

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    and DALE CARRUTHERS It also comes ahead of a discipli- used to help their members for off until the ground thaws. Ontario, the brutal reality of sub-
    The London Free Press nary hearing at which Mugridge many, many years,” Sewell said A weeks-long deep freeze that’s zero cold is hitting the pocketbook
    faced almost Wednesday. plunged Southwestern Ontario earlier for many who can’t afford
    CHATHAM — A senior certain termi- Under legislation proposed by into dangerously cold lows. the deep freeze.
    Chatham-Kent police officer has nation from Ontario’s Liberal government, A perfect storm is bearing down And cold temperatures
    quit the force after costing taxpay- the Chatham- police chiefs would be able to on regional power and heating are expected to last into the
    ers nearly $400,000 for the more Kent force. withhold wages from officers sus- utilities, scrambling to collect weekend.
    than three years he was suspended “It happens pended for serious allegations, a overdue accounts from winter- “It puts a lot of stress on us,”
    with pay from the job. all the time, all power their counterparts in other battered ratepayers as the region Nancy Hutton, a spokesper-
    The departure of Sgt. Robert the time,” said provinces have long wielded. braces for more snow and numb- son for  London Hydro, said
    Mugridge, announced Wednesday, John Sewell, a Pressure to change the law came ing cold. Wednesday.
    comes days before the 29-year vet- Mugridge
    former Toronto after a number of high-profile The number of London Hydro “Bad debts affect all customers
    eran of the force is to be sentenced mayor and out- cases, including that of a Waterloo accounts in arrears has skyrock- eventually, and we have to make
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    to end its distinction as the only kept on the payroll for years, only “for a dream come true.” Chatham-based Union Gas, the down for all Londoners.”
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