Bite fallout prompts push for changes to London’s dog licensing rules

London Free Press
A city councillor wants London’s dog licensing bylaw to start requiring owners to share information after a biting incident, motivated by a resident who says he was left searching for details after his pet was attacked. “Say you’re in a car accident, right? You have to present information to say
Canada, City council, City hall, Community, council, decision, Editorial, Facebook, Hadleigh McAlister, Hamilton, health, Housing, investigation, Journalism, London, London transportation, meeting, missing, plan, Roads, Trail, Transportation, Vaccines

Letters to the Editor: December 27, 2024

London Free Press
Alternative needed
Letters, Opinion, Books, Buses, campaign, children, Christmas, decision, Editorial, federal, Federal election, Government, Hamilton, health, Health care, history, Homelessness, kids, learn, Life, London, London homeless, London letters, London Transit, Mental health, province, Students, Thomas, transit, Transportation, World, youth

Video of masked ‘deportation’ protest at London mall goes viral

London Free Press
A small protest at a London mall has drawn a big response online.
Canada, Community, donald trump, Food, Hamilton, history, Increase, Life, London, London Police, London protests, office, Police, president, Protests, return, Social media, trump, video, White Oaks Mall

U.K. men who came to Southwestern Ontario for ‘crime tourism’ deported

London Free Press
A Sarnia judge had a farewell message for a pair of U.K. men who, apparently unsuccessfully, tried scamming several local homeowners out of money with fraudulent cleaning and repair jobs while on a vacation in Canada. “Go home,” Justice Paul Kowalyshyn said Thursday in a Sarnia courtroom. “Don’t let the door
Canada, Canadian, Crime, fraud, Hamilton, Homes, Jobs, Journalism, Justice, lawyer, London, looking, money, Ontario, Police, Real estate, room, Sarnia, Sarnia police, saw, Scams, Southwestern Ontario, Theft, Toronto, Tourism, Trail, woman

Letters to the Editor: December 20, 2024

London Free Press
Teacher should be congratulated; Students should protest by reading
Books, Education, Letters, Opinion, Calls, Canada, children, City council, council, decision, Editorial, Government, Hamilton, history, Homeless, investigation, job, Justin Trudeau, learn, London, London District Catholic school board, London letters, policy, president, province, Racism, Students, woman

Land ho! Big machine’s long voyage to Southwestern Ontario finally reaches shore

London Free Press
An enormous shipment bound for an Elgin County tool and die company has finally arrived at a Lake Erie beach town after a three-month voyage that began more than 12,000 kilometres away.
Aylmer, beach, Business, Canada, decision, Editorial, Electric vehicles, Elgin County, Government, Hamilton, Homes, Jobs, Journalism, Lake Erie, London, Ontario, Port Stanley, president, Real estate, Region, service, Southwestern Ontario, Thomas, Trail, vehicle, Volkswagen

Strike threat looms over colleges in Southwestern Ontario, across province

London Free Press
London's Fanshawe College and its peers across Southwestern Ontario and provincewide are bracing for a strike that could mark the start of 2025 amid a breakdown in labour talks with the union representing faculty and other staffers.
College Employer Council, Community, decision, Editorial, Education, Fanshawe College, federal, federal government, Government, Hamilton, Holidays, Housing, job, labour, London, Ontario, OPSEU, president, province, Provincial, record, report, return, Sarnia, Simcoe, Southwestern Ontario, Staff, Statement, strike, Strikes, Students, Thomas, Toronto, Windsor, Woodstock, World

Accused over thumbnails: Inside one family’s digital nightmare

London Free Press
A knock at the door. A police search. A rose gold iPhone. Child pornography allegations. Shocking as the charges were against his son, a Woodstock father says the family ordeal that followed shattered his faith in the justice system. Brian Williams reports. CHAPTER 1: THE SEARCH WARRANT A knock at
Calls, Canada, Canadian, charge, Child pornography, children, close, covid, Covid-19, Crime, Damage, Dead, decision, Department, Doctors, Editorial, emergency, Fanshawe College, Government, grey, Hamilton, health, history, Homes, hospital, Identified, investigation, job, Journalism, Justice, lawyer, Life, London, Longreads, looking, meeting, missing, money, Movies, National, news release, office, Ontario, Opinion, pandemic, Police, protect, Provincial, Real estate, report, return, room, saw, Search, service, Snow, Social media, Southwestern Ontario, Speeding, Statement, technology, Theft, Toronto, Trail, Training, Treatment, university, University Hospital, video, Woodstock, Woodstock police

Letters to the Editor: December 14, 2024

London Free Press
Homeless, hopeless
Letters, Opinion, BRT, Canada, Canada Post, Christmas, City council, close, Community, council, Dead, donald trump, Dorchester, Doug Ford, emergency, federal, fire, Food, Food banks, funding, Garbage, Government, Hamilton, Homeless, Housing, Jobs, Journalism, Justin Trudeau, Komoka, learn, Life, London, London letters, Ontario, plan, Plans, president, province, report, Roads, rural, Safety, service, Snow, Tariffs, Thomas, Trail, Transportation, World

Students join fight to keep books containing N-word in Catholic board classes

London Free Press
High-profile criticism of a London District Catholic school board push against assigning books that contain the N-word to avoid causing emotional harm in classrooms is being echoed by a group of two dozen students at one city high school. At Regina Mundi Catholic College – which is at the centre
Books, Canadian, Editorial, Hamilton, history, investigation, London, London District Catholic school board, schools, Snow, Students, university, Western, Western University

Mystery men: Police offer new details on arrested, but unidentified, duo

London Free Press
SARNIA – Sarnia police and Canadian border investigators were still trying on Thursday to identify two unknown men arrested earlier this week amid a probe into allegations a homeowner was asked to pay for eavestrough work that wasn’t done. Sarnia police previously said the men produced identification from another country
Canada, Canadian, Driving, fraud, Hamilton, job, Police, Sarnia, Sarnia police, vehicle

City politician reflects on ‘making a bit of a scene’ with mid-debate exit

London Free Press
A first-term city councillor expressed no regrets about abruptly exiting a debate over rejigged ward boundaries, arguing his political colleagues were ignoring his and his constituents’ wishes. Ward 1 Coun. Hadleigh McAlister walked out of a Tuesday meeting and didn’t return as city politicians debated changes to London’s 14 ward
City council, City hall, CN Railway, council, decision, Editorial, Hadleigh McAlister, Hamilton, Hamilton Road, London, mayor, meeting, plan, Railway, return, Shawn Lewis, Thames River, Transportation
Subscribe to Hamilton