Amid surging influenza cases provincewide, public-health officials for London and surrounding Middlesex County are reporting 20 times more cases than this time last year.
A London MPP is calling on the province to declare homelessness a state of emergency amid an estimated 50 deaths this year.
By Clara Lincolnhol
New research says workers picking, grinding and packaging cannabis are developing workplace-related asthma, and two deaths have occurred so far.
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Opioid-related emergency department visits, hospitalizations and deaths in London and Middlesex County have declined for a third straight year, just-released public health figures show. Dr. Alex Summers, the top doctor with the Middlesex-London health unit, detailed at a Wednesday press conference the agency’s 2025 opioid crisis report – which indicated those three metrics all declined […]
The loss of measles elimination status in Canada is a symptom of a declining trust in public messaging about science and health
Ontario's Natural Resources Ministry is asking for the public's help as it investigates the deaths of two swans in a provincial wildlife area east of Goderich.
By Eric Freedman
The Michigan Court of Appeals has cleared the city of South Haven of liability in the 2020 drowning of an 18-year-old swimmer at a public beach on the Lake Michigan coast.
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By Eric Freedman
Motorcycles and deer don’t mix. And motorcyclists are especially vulnerable to injury or death when they do, according to a recent study of a decade’s worth of crashes in Michigan.
The hubs run by Atlohsa Family Healing Services and Youth Opportunities Unlimited are operating at capacity with waiting lists.
The total caseload now stands at 94, including 86 hospitalizations and four deaths.
esidents on an east London street described on Monday being awoken to the sound of gunfire and a large police presence after an overnight shooting. Emergency crews were called around 1:20 a.m. to a home on Fieldgate Circle, northeast of Gore and Clarke roads, where officers found a man with a gunshot wound, police said. […]
xford's MPP was first elected to the provincial legislature in June 1995