Police chiefs from two London-area municipalities sat down with a newly elected local Conservative MP to discuss public safety, with a focus on bail reform.
he chief of a small Southwestern Ontario police force has joined the chorus of top cops from larger local cities in decrying the release from custody of what they’ve all dubbed “prolific offenders.” Kyle Johnstone is police chief in Aylmer, a town of 7,500 located 45 kilometres east of London that’s one of the few […]
Drew Doughty isn’t the only high-profile London hockey connection to the City of Angels anymore. Knights defenceman Henry Brzustewicz was selected 31st overall by the Los Angeles Kings in the first round of the NHL draft Friday. The pick elicited a loud roar at the 7,100-seat Peacock Theater in L.A., the site of the draft […]
A driver is dead after a single-vehicle crash in Tillsonburg on Wednesday morning, Ontario Provincial Police say. Vienna Road at Simcoe Street and Old Vienna Road in Tillsonburg was closed following a single-vehicle crash, Oxford OPP said on social media Wednesday at about 10 a.m. The crash happened shortly after 9 a.m. and the driver […]
New use of the Quyon mill will be as a farmers' market, a cafe and terrace with river view, and ice cream truck on site
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 […]
LFP sportswriter Ryan Pyette is breaking down the OHL Western Conference final series between the London Knights and the Kitchener Rangers. Here are five things to follow: Rest or rust? The Knights had a big layoff between the Owen Sound sweep and the start of the Erie series. It took London a half-game or so […]
Televised candidates’ debates in London ridings held by Rogers tv have been marred by no-show Conservative candidates. Conservative candidates in four ridings – Adam Benni in London West, Kurt Holman in London-Fanshawe, Stephen Gallant in London Centre and Andrew Lawton in Elgin-St. Thomas-London South – were absent from Rogers tv televised debates recorded recently and […]
A health unit near London at the epicentre of a provincewide measles outbreak continues to see an increase in cases of the highly infectious disease. Here is the latest on the outbreak that has spread throughout Southwestern Ontario, including Middlesex-London. THE EPICENTRE Measles cases continue to climb in Oxford and Elgin counties that accounted for […]
Glorious and Free is being brewed so far by some 40 breweries in every province and Yukon.