The $27 million building will have 73 units, 17 of which will be accessible
Mayor Josh Morgan and the city's economic development agency respond to U.S. President Donald Trump's latest decrees on tariffs
In a tight 8-7 vote, London city council has decided to pull its share of funding from a recruitment drive to bring desperately needed family doctors to the city. LFP’s Jack Moulton looks at the program: what it does, why funding was yanked, and what it will mean going forward. WHAT IS THE PROGRAM? The […]
Funding for homeless drop-in services at Ark Aid Street Mission will continue to flow, despite the ward councillor putting up an intense fight to halt it. In a 9-5 vote at a city council meeting Tuesday, councillors resurrected a motion quashed at a committee meeting in March to give $611,000 to the agency so it […]
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The governing body of London Transit has been disbanded by city council, and seven councillors, including the mayor, will take its place on a temporary basis. The four remaining members of the commission, Coun. Jerry Pribil, Stephanie Marentette, Scott Collyer and Sheryl Rooth, were dismissed in a 10-5 vote at Tuesday’s city council meeting. Councillors […]
The group behind a 20-unit tiny home village for homeless veterans in London is hoping to raise at least $4-million from the community.
It was business as usual Wednesday for the governing body of London Transit, despite a city council committee endorsement the night before to dismiss its decision-makers. The remaining four London Transit commissioners, along with the agency’s staffers, met at the commission’s Highbury Avenue office as scheduled, and made no mention of Tuesday’s vote. “We’re a […]
What for decades has been the butt of a joke at city hall about missed opportunities suddenly became a little more serious Tuesday after politicians endorsed lobbying Queen’s Park for a ring road. In a 12-3 vote, city council, sitting as the strategic priorities and policy committee, voted to support having the mayor and city […]
In a drastic step after months of tension, city politicians voted late Tuesday to abruptly dissolve the London Transit Commission and appoint a temporary team of five council members to oversee the public transit service. City council members voted 9-6 to take control of London Transit effective April 1, citing an increasingly fraught relationship between […]
London city councillors voted Tuesday to fire the city’s integrity commissioner, citing concerns with some of the work the firm has done and the positions it has staked out. Meeting as the strategic priorities and policy committee, councillors voted 9-6 to can the civic watchdog by providing a 30-day notice to terminate its contract. “Having […]
Look in the mirror, Londoners: Comfy with ordinary. Risk-shy. Too self-absorbed. This is Part Four of Postmedia's How Canada Wins series.
To bring the tax increase down the needed 23 per cent, or 1.5 percentage points, would mean finding $13 million in savings.