Opened in stages this year, the new home of the Humane Society Middlesex & London (HSLM) is now fully operating and open to the public. Here are some key things to know about the east-end facility, which LFP reporter Beatriz Baleeiro toured this weekend. HOW WE GOT HERE They’ve gone from a house at 624 […]
London and Kitchener seem to meet every spring in the playoffs and it’s safe to say the two teams generally hate each other
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Joanne M. Pierce, College of the Holy Cross The 88-year-old pontiff had been well aware of his fragile state and advanced age. As early as 2015, Pope Francis had expressed the desire to be buried in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, a fifth-century church in Rome dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. He was […]
London’s mayor is pledging to provide relief to taxpayers in the final year of his term as a new city hall report details a budget surplus of nearly $60 million. The staff report on the city’s 2024 year-end operating budget outlines a $58.8 million surplus on the property tax budget, and a $700,000 surplus on […]
When Ryan Teschner was appointed as Ontario’s first inspector general of policing, he vowed to visit all of the province’s 43 police forces and meet with the boards overseeing them.
The new and councillor-run London Transit Commission (LTC) held its first meeting Wednesday, focused on staff bringing the seven politicians up to speed on operations and budgets.
A leading financial agency is forecasting solid economic growth for London, defying fears of a downturn amid a trade and tariff war between the U.S, and Canada. The Conference Board of Canada in its recent major city insights report, predicts the London and region economy will grow by 1.7 per cent this year, after growing […]
Readers have plenty of questions about the campaign, their own ridings and key issues shaping the race to form Canada's next government.