A network of London advocates and homelessness survivors is calling on city hall to build a women and gender-diverse only homeless hub. That’s just one among more than a dozen “calls to action” announced Wednesday by All Our Sisters, developed after a forum of about 200 people held last fall in London. “Since our first […]
As more snow and cold pounded London on Thursday and city hall emergency shelter funding ended, the immediate housing future of several fire-displaced Londoners remained in limbo. It’s been a painful few weeks for the residents of 753 Dundas St., a privately owned supportive-housing building in Old East Village that was damaged in a $1.2-million […]
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 […]
There was a time in Freeman Hill’s life when he helped build make-believe courtrooms in Toronto for a future wife of a British prince.
Council delayed more than $4 million in promised federal funding for operations from April to March 2026, as well as daytime services
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The YMCA of Southwestern Ontario's 2025 Women of Excellence award winners have been announced.
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 […]
This year our taxes went up an additional $705 for the year. This amounts to about six weekly supermarket visits for food alone
A London teen faces charges after someone tried to sell a stolen laptop online, city police say.
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?
BRANTFORD – A homeless, addicted drug dealer gave a judge here a snapshot of his time in jail as he was being sentenced recently. Travis K. McDonald, 41, had been in jail for almost nine months when he stood before Justice Colette Good and told her what he experienced behind bars. “I’ve seen more drugs, […]