London city councillors have endorsed dismantling a homeless encampment and on-site service depot after a Sunday night fire and explosion at a park. Members of city council’s community and protective services committee unanimously backed an emergency motion at a Monday meeting to order city staff to help relocate 39 people living in the encampment at […]
One person has been arrested following a homeless encampment fire that was deemed an act of arson, London police say.
A Free Press reader suggests removing the homeless and panhandlers loitering downtown and accommodate them along Hamilton Road.
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 […]
The group behind a 20-unit tiny home village for homeless veterans in London is hoping to raise at least $4-million from the community.
The Southwest Ontario Aboriginal Health Access Centre is hours away from shutting down the Jordan's Principle program
Many Londoners have opinions about the state of the core. One reader would like to add her voice, as someone who still lives downtown, and loves it.
A Free Press reader has been increasingly concerned that "downtown has been left to rot and has been taken over by the homeless."
A Free Press reader says it's time to clean house at the Thames Valley District school board, with "their skewed priorities."
To bring the tax increase down the needed 23 per cent, or 1.5 percentage points, would mean finding $13 million in savings.
Potentially hundreds of current and former employees of a London Indigenous organization face up to 10 years of income tax bills after learning they don’t qualify for a federal tax exemption. The employees believed Canada’s Indian Act exempted them from paying income tax, but their employer, Atlohsa Family Healing Services, recently learned that’s not the […]