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 […]
A London human rights lawyer has joined the chorus of critics opposing a legal group’s decision to cancel an address by a Syrian-born entrepreneur because of his social media posts.
A health unit near London at the epicentre of a provincewide measles outbreak continues to see an increase in cases of the highly infectious disease. Here is the latest on the outbreak that has spread throughout Southwestern Ontario, including Middlesex-London. THE EPICENTRE Measles cases continue to climb in Oxford and Elgin counties that accounted for […]
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 […]
A departing Conservative MP with deep roots in a London-area riding won’t endorse any candidate to succeed her, not even the one running under her longtime party’s banner. Karen Vecchio, who had represented Elgin-Middlesex-London since 2015, said she won’t publicly support anyone to fill her vacated seat, now renamed Elgin-St. Thomas-London South after the riding’s […]
The London Knights are one win from a four-game sweep over the Owen Sound Attack in their OHL first-round playoff series
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Huron Bruce Nature (HBN) welcomed Lauren Eby and Kathryn Bruce from the economic development department to their March 25 meeting in Point Clark to talk about tourism in Bruce County. Eby explained that the department focuses on tourism, agriculture and community development by supporting residents and businesses through various initiatives. One such well-known program is […]
A push by a downtown landlord and the London Community Foundation to bring more affordable housing to the core has fallen flat after no partners responded to their offer
Thames Valley trustees pushed back on some names proposed for four new London-area schools because they would be named after people.
The emptying of office space in London’s downtown may be levelling off, one commercial realtor says, as the latest commercial vacancy rate hit a new high in the first quarter of this year. London’s downtown now has 32 per cent of its office space vacant, up from 31.7 per cent at the end of 2024, […]