Music

The best musicians across the Thames Valley District school board performed at Canada Life Place in downtown London during the annual Variety Is . . . showcase concert. Photos by LFP’s Mike Hensen mhensen@postmedia.com

Of all the messages in this federal election – some bland, some spicy – the most refreshing is the grassroots campaign to save the CBC.

In local arts news this week, we explore Classical IPR’s new podcast through the lens of humor. And then there’s a murder, a fictional one.

Gordon Berg learned about Hospice of Michigan while playing music for small groups at the assisted living facility where his mother lived. When he saw a hospice volunteer playing music for one of the residents, he volunteered to do the same.

A London restaurateur has opened what she says will be the city’s first zero-food-waste eatery. After two years of planning, designing and building, Jess Jazey-Spoelstra officially opened the doors to Los Olivos on Tuesday following a soft launch during the weekend. “This was my baby,” said Jazey-Spoelstra, who opened Bear and Frankie’s at Covent Garden […]

Wands casting fire. A spell that lights it up like a flashlight. A staircase that dances on its own.

Imagine completing a live recording of one of the most difficult pieces of music to play on the violin, all in one seamless take…at your family cottage. In a once-in-a-generation … Continued

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Thirteen school trips to the U.S. approved by the Thames Valley District school board! Who sits on this board?

Oakridge secondary school principal will be following a bus load of high schoolers as they make their way across the Canada-U.S. border next week.

U.S.-Canada trade tensions led to a steep drop in Canadians heading south last month – a trend that, if it continues, could help boost the London region’s tourism sector, an industry watcher says. Some 1.5 million Canadians made return trips to the U.S. by car in March, a 31.9 per cent drop from the same […]

Thames Valley schools must have a plan in case students on 13 school trips to the U.S. are turned back at the border, officials say

The Traverse City demonstration was one part of Saturday's grassroots rallies held nationwide as part of the “Hands Off” protest movement.