Of all the messages in this federal election – some bland, some spicy – the most refreshing is the grassroots campaign to save the CBC.
London Free Press
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 […]
Interlochen Public Radio
A U.S. subsidiary of the Swedish defense company Saab announced its plans to build last year. The facility will take up about 60 acres in an industrial park south of Grayling.
Great Lakes Commission
The Trump administration’s new trade rules aimed at penalizing operators of Chinese-built ships and boosting domestic shipbuilding appear to have spared the Great Lakes shipping industry from fees on ships […]
Great Lakes Commission
After the seasonal decline during the winter months, the water levels in Lake Erie are on the rise again and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers predicts the levels will […]
London Free Press
Just four days in, a judge has declared a mistrial and ordered a new jury be selected at the sexual assault trial of five players from Canada’s championship-winning 2018 world junior hockey team. While the decision may have caused the trial to slightly wobble, it hasn’t derailed it. A new jury panel had already assembled […]
London Free Press
Thames Valley school board officials have a plan to boost grades, improve student literacy and math scores that haven’t kept up with provincial scotres, according to a report released this week.
London Free Press
London and Kitchener seem to meet every spring in the playoffs and it’s safe to say the two teams generally hate each other
London Free Press
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 […]
London Free Press
LFP sportswriter Ryan Pyette is breaking down the OHL Western Conference final series between the London Knights and the Kitchener Rangers. Here are five things to follow: Rest or rust? The Knights had a big layoff between the Owen Sound sweep and the start of the Erie series. It took London a half-game or so […]
London Free Press
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 […]