London Free Press
London’s unemployment rate jumped by half a percentage point in April as the local economy shed nearly 2,000 jobs and the toll of the U.S.-Canada trade war came into sharper focus.   Statistics Canada reported Friday the jobless rate for the region, which includes St. Thomas, Strathroy and portions of Elgin and Middlesex counties, hit […]
London Free Press
Volkswagen has dodged the tariff and trade dispute between Canada and the U.S. and its manufacturing plant being built in St. Thomas will proceed full speed ahead, the city’s economic development boss says. Electric-vehicle batteries made in St. Thomas will be tariff-free under recent changes to the trade policy announced by the U.S., auto industry […]
London Free Press
A former St. Thomas police officer abused his position of authority to engage in a sexual relationship with a teen girl and wore his uniform during some of their sexual encounters, according to a new lawsuit. A 25-year-old St. Thomas woman, who alleges she was 15 when she started a sexual relationship with then-Const. Garry […]
London Free Press
A 56-year-old is charged after London police say a man assaulted a couple he knew before forcibly taking their dog. It was about 11:30 a.m. on Thursday when city police say a man and woman were walking their dog in the 300 block of Wellington Road – just north of Base Line Road East, and […]
London Free Press
Officers responded to incidents at two separate St. Thomas schools this week involving students making threats, police say. The first incident was on Tuesday when officers were called to an unidentified high school after a student threatened a member of the administration, St. Thomas police stated in a news release on Friday. Officers went to […]