London city councillors voted Tuesday to fire the city’s integrity commissioner, citing concerns with some of the work the firm has done and the positions it has staked out. Meeting as the strategic priorities and policy committee, councillors voted 9-6 to can the civic watchdog by providing a 30-day notice to terminate its contract. “Having […]
Four city council members want to dissolve London's transit authority, citing a breakdown in the relationship between the long-standing municipally funded agency and city hall.
City hall has come up with a list of quick-start fixes to support downtown London, an interim step as a long-term plan for the core takes shape.
A Free Press reader says it's time to clean house at the Thames Valley District school board, with "their skewed priorities."
To bring the tax increase down the needed 23 per cent, or 1.5 percentage points, would mean finding $13 million in savings.
Middlesex Centre is asking London for a favour that would allow more housing in Arva but it may not like the answer. Instead of saying yes to the request for London to take more of Arva’s sewage, the chair of city council’s planning and environment community said he thinks the community could be better off […]
A city council committee endorsed increased funding for a family doctor recruitment strategy that has had some success, even if some members are uneasy about it. Council’s community and protective services committee ultimately recommended an $80,000 funding extension to the primary-care recruitment and retention program, funded through the city-funded London Economic Development Corp. (LEDC) reserve […]
City funding for encampment outreach and 88 shelter beds is poised to continue, but more than $600,000 in funding for homeless drop-in services at one London agency is in jeopardy after a tie vote Monday at a city council committee. Nearly $3.6 million in funding was endorsed by the community and protective services committee for […]
The results are in. The first year of London’s green bin program, launched in January 2024, saw significant uptake and limited non-compliance, a new report to council’s community and protective services committee says. The program, the most significant change made to London’s waste collection system since 1996, reached 130,000 households and approximately 325,000 people. Our […]