An embattled outreach agency for street-level sex workers is suing its former director, alleging failures to submit various tax filings to the Canada Revenue Agency during her tenure on the board. SafeSpace London – a drop-in centre that supports sex workers, other women and non-binary people – has launched a legal action against its former director and […]
Surging Liberal fortunes may pose a threat to London’s lone New Democratic Party seat in the federal election as NDP support in national polls plunged into single digits, one political analyst says.
Ashley Bourget wouldn’t tell Joe Hodgkin over the phone why she urgently needed him to come to her apartment.
After hefty increases in 2023, the pay for almost all senior administrator with the Thames Valley District school board dropped last year
Deb Tait wanted to run for the federal Conservatives. Now, she doesn't even want to vote for them.
The Crown’s last witness at Koree Dockstater’s trial was one of the last people to see Shaniqua Henry alive. That wasn’t lost on Robert John, 30, who grew emotional when he was asked questions about his friend Henry, 27, whom he found dead in a puddle on a gravel driveway on Chippewas of the Thames […]
Devon Cherrey-Rooke’s family never doubted how much he loved them and they loved him back. Sometime before his death on Aug. 7, 2022, he sent them a letter saying he was ready to move past the tough life he was living. “I’m done doing drugs. I miss my family, making good money, being trusted and […]
It is an unusual court exhibit at a trial about an unusual homicide. When investigators found it, it was wrapped in three layers of plastic and tucked into an old pillowcase. On Wednesday, the Superior Court jury at Ashley Bourget’s first-degree murder trial got a second look at a hatchet found in a homemade backyard […]
Ambitious streetscape project will showcase the best of the city's historic core. This is Part 5 of Postmedia's How Canada Wins series.
It was a snippet from the main witness’s testimony at Craig Allan’s second-degree murder that the Crown wanted the judge to hear again. Assistant Crown attorney Marcia Hilliard, during her closing argument, replayed for Superior Court Justice Patricia Moore one of several confrontational moments between the witness, who was an associate of Allan’s and whose […]
The cash-strapped Thames Valley District school board spent more than $300,000 in legal fees in February, its latest financial figures show, and it’s not saying why. “If you are looking for information on this matter, you will need to submit an FOI (Freedom of Information) request,” a spokesperson for the board said in an email. […]
Before they found Grant Norton’s body, the police already had information that he might have been killed. “We had information that he was involved in the illicit drug culture and that he had been robbed . . . and killed,” London police Det.-Const. Blake Morrison, who has spent years on the investigation into Norton’s death, […]