Voter suppression
Of all the messages in this federal election – some bland, some spicy – the most refreshing is the grassroots campaign to save the CBC.
The federal election campaign came to London Friday night, with Liberal Leader Mark Carney and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh holding separate rallies within five kilometres of each other. Facing the prospect of losing some of the 24 seats the party had in the last Parliament, Singh carved out time in the crucial home stretch of […]
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 […]
Ontario education minister Paul Calandra has put the Thames Valley District school board – home to 84,000 students – under Queen’s Park supervision following a controversial three-day Toronto retreat by top officials last summer that cost $38,000. Investigators, auditing the board’s books, found a lack of financial oversight in the budgeting process led to a […]
The Liberal candidate in a Southwestern Ontario riding is accusing his Conservative rival of “divisive and fear-mongering politics” over a letter suggesting the government intends to end the tax-exempt status of churches. David Hilderley, running for the Liberals in Oxford, released a statement accusing Conservative incumbent Arpan Khanna of engaging in a “disinformation and smear […]
Officials with the London region’s largest school board say they have no plans to send any more students on class trips to the United States amid uncertainty at the border since President Donald Trump’s re-election. While student treks to America have been common for decades, the Thames Valley District school board “isn’t planning any future […]
A craft brewery in St. Thomas is distancing itself from a former executive after a photo of him making an obscene gesture outside a Liberal rally in Brantford went viral on social media. Matt Janes, who is a volunteer for David Goodwin, a Liberal candidate in Elgin-St. Thomas-London South, was photographed as he held up […]
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In recent weeks, President Donald Trump and Elon Musk have floated the idea of privatizing U.S. mail services. But letter carriers say that would be detrimental to rural areas like northern Michigan.
Rogers TV partnered with The London Free Press to hold debates for the federal election candidates running in the city’s four traditional ridings. You can watch them below and check out our list of who’s running where across the region right here. ELGIN-ST. THOMAS-LONDON SOUTH LONDON CENTRE LONDON WEST LONDON-FANSHAWE
If we can't have respectful conversations that further understanding, we are destined for division
Spring is here and so is another year for the South Bruce Dairy 4-H Club. The club kicked off the first meeting on April 9 at the Teeswater Agri-Curl. Every year, the club focuses on a different part of the dairy industry. Last year, the club learned about dairy cow’s nutrition and digestive system. This […]