South Bruce retired women teachers open eyes and hearts at Christmas

Kincardine News
The South Bruce Retired Women Teachers of Ontario/Organization des enseignantes retraitées de l’Ontario (RWTO/OERO) gathered Nov. 21 at the Kincardine United Church to launch the festive season. South Bruce RWTO branch president Frances Nixon welcomed 32 members and two guests: Nancy Strutt, RWTO/OERO Area 1 director, and Francesca Dobbyn, United
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One-time acting CEO exits London Health Sciences Centre

London Free Press
London Health Sciences Centre is losing another top executive, the fourth member of its leadership team to part ways with the hospital in as many months.   Kevin Chan, the hospital’s vice-president of medicine, research and academics and the former acting president and chief executive of LHSC, is stepping down
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Baranyai: Too often, consequences mistaken for censorship

London Free Press
This fall, a social worker in Yukon temporarily was stripped of her professional registration in B.C. for endorsing conspiracy theories.
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Witness describes ‘complete chaos’ after teen shot at bush party

London Free Press
Reece Davidson had a bad feeling about the man dressed in black and wearing a COVID mask who was hanging around the dying embers of the bonfire at a southwest London bush party.
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National cross country championships hitting stride in London

London Free Press
The Canadian cross country championships will be held for the first of back-to-back years at Fanshawe Golf Course this weekend.
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Bush bash homicide trial resumes with one defendant, not two

London Free Press
The bush party homicide trial continued Thursday, but with only one, not two, defendants.
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Fire causes $1M damage to historic Wortley Village building

London Free Press
An overnight fire at a historic building in the heart of Wortley Village caused estimated $1-million damage. London firefighters responded around 12:30 a.m. Thursday to a structure fire at building on Wortley Road, north of Bruce Street, where crews used two aerial ladders to douse the stubborn blaze, fire department
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London police chief urged to ‘set record straight’ on safe supply programs

London Free Press
The jump in opioid pills hitting London’s streets started when several pharmacies began dispensing them, the health unit says, a finding that suggests federal Conservatives and other critics targeting the older Safer Opioid Supply (SOS) program are missing the mark. “There was a notable increase in hydromorphone prescribing from 2023
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Sport Notes: London Devilettes grads, London Lightning, Delaware Speedway

London Free Press
A collection of news and notes from across the Southwestern Ontario sports scene
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Man charged in public housing shooting lives in building, court documents show

London Free Press
A man charged in a shooting at a London public housing building is a resident at the high-rise and had been charged two months earlier with weapons offences in Aylmer, according to court records.
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Man accused of kidnappings, sexual assaults arrested in London

London Free Press
A man accused of pretending to be a rideshare driver and allegedly sexually assaulting multiple women in the Toronto area has been arrested in London, police say.
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Baranyai: Canada plays role in giving Afghan women hope

London Free Press
For girls and women in Afghanistan, suffocating under ever-more repressive restrictions, hope is in very short supply.
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