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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A motorcyclist was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries after a crash northwest of London Saturday morning, police say. Two riders were heading south on Vanneck Road when one lost control and crashed around 7:30 a.m. in Middlesex Centre, the Ontario Provincial Police said. Anyone with information about the crash is asked to contact Middlesex […]
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Two gunmen killed a nurse outside her northwest London home in a botched hit targeting her boyfriend, a court heard.
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Elgin County is examining how its growing population will get around in the coming decades.
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A pedestrian is dead in Ingersoll after being struck by a train, Ontario Provincial Police in Oxford County said on Monday morning. Police closed Mutual Street North (between Carnegie Street and Wilson Street) and Thames Street South (between Carnegie Street and Oxford Lane) amid the investigation and the OPP was warning drivers to avoid the […]
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"It’s worrisome that government keeps saying the right thing but nothing has been triggered"
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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 […]
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A scheduled homicide trial starting Monday of a man charged in the shooting death of Lynda Marques has taken an unexpected turn.
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A London high school student is nearly finished building from wood a custom electric Mercedes-Benz G-Class SUV, informally known as the G-Wagon, after the project hit an unexpected roadblock.
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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 […]
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A 28-year-old London man is facing three arson charges after a string of fires along Hamilton Road over a three-day period, police say.
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Parents are sounding the alarm after two vehicles recently struck parked school buses – with students already on board – outside a south London elementary school. “There have been multiple incidents involving vehicles colliding with parked school buses along Ernest Avenue” at Sir Arthur Carty elementary school, parent Ashleigh Withenshaw said. “The pattern is alarming […]