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 […]
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 […]
London’s unemployment rate went up by half a percentage point for a second straight month in May, Statistics Canada reported Friday, as the ongoing trade war between Canada and the U.S. continues to take a toll on the local economy. The London region, which also takes in St. Thomas, Strathroy and portions of Elgin and […]
Man held in custody in London's largest-ever fentanyl bust has lengthy criminal record
One Londoner describes being “terrified” when tactical officers raided a neighbour’s home as part of a five-month investigation
What began as a storefront gelato parlour in London has grown into a food business shipping the Italian desserts across Ontario. Coppa Inc. now sells its London-made gelato and sorbet across the province and it manufactures other frozen treats that ship as far as British Columbia, said chief executive Matt Swann. “We want to be […]
Friends of a young father originally from Strathroy who was killed at a precast concrete manufacturing plant are raising money to support his two young children and his mother. Nick Wood, 37, died May 23 in a workplace incident at Fritz-Alder Precast, in the Bruce County community of Chepstow. The company produces large concrete walls […]
In a first for London police, officers seized a Draco as part of a five-month probe that led to the city's largest fentanyl seizure yet.
Toyota Canada will be making a new vehicle at its Southwestern Ontario plants, but with a very familiar look. The RAV4 vehicles now assembled at Canada’s largest automotive manufacturer in Woodstock and Cambridge will be hybrid-only beginning early in 2026, the automaker announced. It now assembles both gasoline-powered and hybrid RAV4s as well as Lexus […]
London’s vegan fast food franchise is set to hit convenience store shelves across Canada.
The puck drops on the Memorial Cup this Friday in Rimouski, Que., with the London Knights back for a second straight year
A Free Press reader thinks the city needs to end the build incentives zoning insanity for luxury units no one can afford.