Wingham Free Press
(Wingham, North Huron) — The Ontario Provincial Police have confirmed their deployment of plain-clothes officers to the December 15, 2025 North Huron council meeting, where officers interfered with citizens attempting to ask questions prior to the meeting. Video of the incident has spread nationwide, attracting the attention of free-speech advocates, civil liberty monitors, and “The […]
Wingham, North Huron, has faced its share of storms, but this one isn’t made of smoke and flame. It’s a slow-burning crisis of selective enforcement, broken trust, and pedestrian safety that has smoldered for nearly twenty years. Today, that fire finally met its match. Fire Chief Chad Kregar has stepped forward. Quietly at first. Then […]
This week, the Free Press takes the unprecedented step of adding Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers assigned to the PLT division—Paul Richardson (Badge 12861) and Robert Hann (Badge 13409)—to its Hall of Shame. We do not do this lightly. But what occurred at the recent North Huron council meeting was not routine policing. It was […]
(Wingham, North Huron) — At some point, negligence stops being ignorance and becomes a choice. That moment has arrived for North Huron Fire Chief, Chief By-law Enforcement Officer, and Public Safety Officer Chad Kregar. Last week, Kregar was directly informed—face to face—of active pedestrian hazards created by snow and ice left on municipal sidewalks, including […]
(WINGHAM, ON) — Serious questions are being raised about the role of Provincial Liaison Team (PLT) officers Paul Richardson (Badge 12861) and Robert Hann (Badge 13409) after a tense and widely witnessed confrontation at a recent North Huron council meeting—an incident residents say crossed the line from “keeping order” into stifling democratic participation. According to […]
(Wingham, North Huron) It didn’t start with shouting.It didn’t start with anger.It started the way all real change starts — with one person asking a fair question. A citizen stood in a public building, at a public meeting, asking public officials to do something simple and decent: replace a tattered cenotaph flag and explain why […]
(Wingham, North Huron) It didn’t start with shouting.It didn’t start with anger.It started the way all real change starts — with one person asking a fair question. A citizen stood in a public building, at a public meeting, asking public officials to do something simple and decent: replace a tattered cenotaph flag and explain why […]
(Wingham, North Huron) — A disturbance occurred during last night’s North Huron council meeting involving two individuals who claimed to be members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP). The individuals were dressed in plain clothes and declined to produce police identification, photo ID, or business cards when requested, stating that they did not have them […]
(SMITHS FALLS, ON) – Once again, the Ontario Provincial Police have embarrassed themselves on video — this time, caught refusing to enforce Ontario’s own Trespass to Property Act and treating the complainant with hostility instead of professionalism. This was not a split-second street encounter or a complex legal dispute. It was a basic matter of property rights […]
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