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Things were already tense on this rural Ontario council. Then came the lawsuit

May 31, 2026

The simmering tensions dividing the leaders of a bucolic eastern Ontario township have now boiled over into the legal arena, with three council members suing all but one of their council colleagues over alleged abuses of their public positions.



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