Ontario Provincial Police said they were investigating after an 81-year-old from Woodstock died in a two-vehicle crash involving a passenger vehicle and a commercial vehicle along Hwy 401 in Oxford County. Emergency crews were called at about 11:50 p.m. on Saturday to the two-vehicle crash in the eastbound lanes of the 401, near the Mill […]
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The Conservative seeking re-election as MP in the Southwestern Ontario riding of Oxford has drawn fire from his Liberal opponent over missing a debate, the latest clash between the two in the campaign's final days.
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More than 250,000 London and area voters cast ballots at advance polls ahead of Monday’s federal election, reflecting a trend that saw high turnout across the country. The advance polls for the federal campaign, held during the Easter long weekend, saw a 25 per cent increase in participation nationally and turnout also was strong across […]
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Just four days in, a judge has declared a mistrial and ordered a new jury be selected at the sexual assault trial of five players from Canada’s championship-winning 2018 world junior hockey team. While the decision may have caused the trial to slightly wobble, it hasn’t derailed it. A new jury panel had already assembled […]
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Thames Valley school board officials have a plan to boost grades, improve student literacy and math scores that haven’t kept up with provincial scotres, according to a report released this week.
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Ontario education minister Paul Calandra has put the Thames Valley District school board – home to 84,000 students – under Queen’s Park supervision following a controversial three-day Toronto retreat by top officials last summer that cost $38,000. Investigators, auditing the board’s books, found a lack of financial oversight in the budgeting process led to a […]
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Measles cases have surged again for the Southwestern Ontario public health office at the centre of a provincewide outbreak, after a dip in reported cases.
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The sexual assault trial of five former Team Canada junior hockey players won’t be back before the jury until Friday.
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One person is dead and one is in hospital after a two-vehicle collision involving a passenger vehicle and a transport truck northeast of Strathroy. Ontario Provincial Police said emergency crews were called shortly after 10:30 a.m. Thursday to the scene of the collision and had closed Egremont Drive between Hedley Drive and Ilderton Road. That’s […]
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Charges have been laid after London police responded to a report of a man with a gun in the city’s north end early Tuesday, police say. At around 1 a.m., a group of men was in a parking garage in the 700 block of Kipps Lane, near the intersection of Adelaide Street North, when they […]
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The Liberal candidate in a Southwestern Ontario riding is accusing his Conservative rival of “divisive and fear-mongering politics” over a letter suggesting the government intends to end the tax-exempt status of churches. David Hilderley, running for the Liberals in Oxford, released a statement accusing Conservative incumbent Arpan Khanna of engaging in a “disinformation and smear […]