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 […]
City funding for encampment outreach and 88 shelter beds is poised to continue, but more than $600,000 in funding for homeless drop-in services at one London agency is in jeopardy after a tie vote Monday at a city council committee. Nearly $3.6 million in funding was endorsed by the community and protective services committee for […]
Eighty-eight shelter beds, more mobile outreach to London’s homeless encampments but limited money for daytime drop-in spots. City politicians will debate two staff recommendations to address London’s homelessness crisis over the next year that include enhanced support for people living rough and 88 shelter beds, but limited funding for existing day programs. The two […]
It's unclear so far how the restructuring of Canada's oldest company will shake out in London, but it's hitting local shoppers right in the nostalgia.
A grassroots group of municipal politicians is urging voters to make homelessness a provincial election issue, with the equivalent of a city larger than Sarnia living on the street across Ontario. Calling the encampments that have cropped up in municipalities big and small in recent years a “human rights crisis,” the Ontario Coalition for the […]
London’s year-long commitment to new shelter spaces for the city’s homeless will be smaller than what it was just weeks ago. During Tuesday’s meeting of city council, politicians opted not to find funding for 10 supportive housing spaces and delayed a number of components in a staff report promising $5.2 million in funding to Ark […]
Where do Ontario's main three parties stand on the issues facing cities provincewide, and the growing calls for a better deal between Queen's Park and municipal governments?
Preston Hill’s back story before he fatally stabbed a Toronto pastor included a serious brain injury, a London court heard Wednesday.
London is getting millions from Queen’s Park to establish 60 new homelessness and addiction recovery beds at two location in the city
Londonâs Salvation Army has seen an uptick in support for its Christmas campaign since sounding the alarm about a shortage of both donations and volunteers, officials say, but a "crucial shortfall" remains with one week until Dec. 25.
London Free Press
London-based VersaBank is giving $50,000 to the Salvation Army, which have become the primary recipient of its donations. Read More
London Free Press
Two days to go and 20 per cent behind in its goal, the London Salvation Army is making a last-minute appeal for kettle volunteers and donors to help it reach its $580,000 target. Read More