Hockey jerseys out, grad gowns in. London’s downtown arena, home to the national champion London Knights junior hockey team, will become convocation central for not just one, but both of London’s post-secondary schools for the first time starting Monday. Thousands of graduates from Western University and Fanshawe College, and their guests, will converge on the […]
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Legal arguments over potential evidence inconsistencies dominated Wednesday morning’s proceedings at the high-profile Hockey Canada sexual assault trial.
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The numbers didn’t add up for Graham Henderson. Toronto had four million people and a music economy of $500 million a year. Austin, Texas had a fifth of the people, 800,000, and three times the music economy, $1.5 billion a year. As president of Music Canada at the time, Henderson set out to figure out […]
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Attention, Woodstock shoppers. It’s a good time to check that old lottery ticket you bought. Ontario’s lottery and gaming regulator is urging the winner of the May 4, 2024 Lotto 6/49 draw to come forward and claim their $5 million prize, with less than two weeks to go before the ticket expires. The […]
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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 […]
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Thirteen school trips to the U.S. approved by the Thames Valley District school board! Who sits on this board?
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Frustration is mounting among some Covent Garden Market vendors as construction that shut down the front entrance will drag into the summer
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One was an old factory, the other an overlooked area downtown. Both are now go-tos. This is Part Five of Postmedia's How Canada Wins series.
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For a new London business, the address could not be more historic. It’s the place where the city’s first entrepreneur set up shop. Located in the shadow of two giant downtown highrises, with two more planned that will set a height record for London, the new Vietnamese restaurant also stands ready to cash in on […]
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London's 180-year-old downtown market is changing its hours in May, another sign of the shifting nature of the city's core.
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Amid a snap election, plenty of Londoners we sampled appear skeptical of Ontario's $3-billion mass mail-out of money to virtually everyone.