Canada’s aggressive new military rhetoric was on Monday welcomed by an analyst as well as workers at London’s General Dynamics Land Systems Canada plant. The city’s military industrial base may play a key role in Canada’s renewed commitment to national defence. Prime Minister Mark Carney’s pledge to boost military spending by $9 billion this fiscal year could […]
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Bills 5 and 17 are Doug Ford’s exploitation of U.S. threats to our sovereignty and economy to continue his corrupt campaign to destroy our environment for the enrichment of developers.
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 […]
Elgin County is examining how its growing population will get around in the coming decades.
As city hall looks to limit next year's tax hike, there's limited appetite to cut services either within the city hall or from agencies funded by the city
"It’s worrisome that government keeps saying the right thing but nothing has been triggered"
Trends, fads, time – like all apparel companies, London-based Illbury + Goose has endured its share of the familiar tests in a notoriously fickle industry. To that you can add a pandemic that left many merchants, including small clothing retailers, scrambling to reinvent their business, and – now – a U.S-triggered trade war that’s slapped […]
A Cambridge resident faces charges, including of operating a vehicle while impaired, following a weekend car-train collision in Oxford County, police say. The Saturday morning collision occurred about 5:30 a.m. in Blandford-Blenheim, a largely rural township northeast of Woodstock, Ontario Provincial Police said. Police said a 38-year-old had minor injuries from the collision and was […]
More damage to gravesites at a Stratford cemetery has been reported to police, following a public alert issued nearly two weeks ago. Stratford police late last month said they were investigating several reports of damaged or stolen memorial plaques at Avondale Cemetery, and asked people to check their loved ones’ headstones for other damage. Friday, […]
A Free Press reader says the $125M plan to redevelop London city hall is "not an investment, it's a growing debt burden."
A local childcare provider says she’s getting the runaround when it comes to subsidized rates through the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care (CWELCC) system. “There are no spaces left to expand (under the CWELCC system) according to what the government divvies up to every county,” Joan Finlay, owner of Unique Minds Childcare Inc. in […]
Police are investigating the theft of a rainbow Pride flag from a Norwich Township school – the third such act of vandalism in the area in less than 20 days.