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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"It’s worrisome that government keeps saying the right thing but nothing has been triggered"
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The London Knights are bringing home their third Memorial Cup and the team is planning a celebration with the community on Monday night.
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Ryan Gauss has been elected chairperson of London’s police board. Gauss, longtime chief of staff to London Centre Liberal MP Peter Fragiskatos, replaces Ali Chahbar, who resigned from the board this month, citing personal health reasons. Board member Nancy Branscombe nominated Gauss to become chairperson of the seven-member board that oversees policing in the city […]
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London MP Arielle Kayabaga was dumped from her role with Prime Minister Mark Carney's new slimmed-down cabinet unveiled Tuesday
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Ontario's southwest will bear the brunt of the tariff war between Canada and the U.S., with the London region projected to lose 11,500 jobs, a new Ontario report says.
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The Conservatives tightened their grip Monday on the 10-riding London region, snatching an urban riding in London to increase the party’s seat count to eight. Kurt Holman, who knocked off the NDP’s Lyndsay Mathyssen in London-Fanshawe, and Andrew Lawton, who took Elgin-St. Thomas-London South after a bruising campaign, are the new faces for the Conservatives […]
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The Conservatives let an once-expected victory in Monday night's federal election slip away – but amid the nationwide loss, they gained ground among London voters.
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The federal election campaign came to London Friday night, with Liberal Leader Mark Carney and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh holding separate rallies within five kilometres of each other. Facing the prospect of losing some of the 24 seats the party had in the last Parliament, Singh carved out time in the crucial home stretch of […]
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Here’s your primer on the five London-area races and ridings and the contests in the wider five-riding region for Monday’s federal election. LONDON CENTRE The riding: It’s sort of a new kid on the block this time with a new name — it had been London-North-Centre — and new boundaries that leave out the northernmost […]
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Candidates running in three London ridings in the federal election met with voters at an informal gathering Wednesday at Goodwill Industries on Horton Street. Organized by the London Chamber of Commerce and sponsored by the London St. Thomas Association of Realtors, the event also offered an opportunity for London’s business community to speak with candidates […]
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Do the Liberals have a shot in the redrawn Middlesex-London riding? We sat down with Liberal candidate Kent Keenan to learn more about him.