Interest rates, Donald Trump and London’s 2025 housing market outlook

Interest rates, Donald Trump and London’s 2025 housing market outlook
London Free Press
London’s housing market ended 2024 on a positive note, bolstered by a strong fall that helped the region reach 8,000 homes sold for the first time in three years. All signs pointed to an even stronger 2025 amid lower interest rates and new mortgage rules meant to help first-time buyers. But clouds are now on […]
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Union: Trustees must come clean on who OK’d big school board pay hikes

Union: Trustees must come clean on who OK’d big school board pay hikes
London Free Press
The head of a union representing 1,600 Thames Valley District school board employees says she wants to know whether trustees approved senior staff pay raises of up to 33 per cent that began in 2023.
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Probe into Amazon worker’s death finished – but widow still in dark

Probe into Amazon worker’s death finished – but widow still in dark
London Free Press
Ontario’s Labour Ministry has completed its probe into the death one year ago of an Amazon employee at its London-area mega-plant – but his widow must file a a freedom-of-information (FOI) request to get the final report that includes autopsy results. It’s a “frustrating” process that puts more stress on grieving families, said Sudbury NDP […]
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Children in need may face compromised care and long waits in clinics and hospital emergency departments, as Children’s Aid Society of London and Middlesex is shutting down its internal medical clinic,

Children in need may face compromised care and long waits in clinics and hospital emergency departments, as Children’s Aid Society of London and Middlesex is shutting down its internal medical clinic,
London Free Press
Children in care may face compromised health care and longer waits, as Children’s Aid Society closes its medical clinic.
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School board chair won’t say who approved big pay hikes for senior staff

School board chair won’t say who approved big pay hikes for senior staff
London Free Press
Thames Valley chair won’t say if trustees OK’d pay raises for senior administration in 2023 because of a ministry-ordered audit.
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Letters to the Editor: January 4, 2025

London Free Press
BRT right move
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Teacher unions: Don’t blame us for Thames Valley school board budget woes

London Free Press
Union leaders are speaking out against accusations budget woes are related to teacher absences at the Thames Valley District school board.
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London’s Hollywood watch-master reflects on marking time, making it count

London Free Press
A lifelong expertise, a shopful of specialized tools and a worldwide reputation – yet, here was Derek Dier trying to colour a vintage diamond-and-gold watch with a pink magic marker. When Hollywood calls and when Hollywood helps your business, you jump. The propmaster for the hit series Mad Men had
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Whitmer signs bills to extend jobless benefits to 26 weeks

Interlochen Public Radio
Jobless workers will be able to collect unemployment benefits for a little more than six months under bills signed Monday by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
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FEDERAL DATA: Michigan’s outdoor economy continued growth in 2023

Interlochen Public Radio
According to data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, the outdoor industry brought in nearly $14 billion in economic activity. That’s an 8 percent increase compared to 2022.
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Klassen: Elections, economic angst will dominate politics in 2025

London Free Press
Economics will play an outsized role in politics in 2025 as leaders try to create robust economies in an era of volatility
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Thames Valley students will feel effects as more teaching jobs cut: Union

London Free Press
Thames Valley is eliminating the equivalent of 33 secondary teaching positions as it continues to wrestle with its mounting $16.5M deficit.
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