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.
Do the Liberals have a shot in the redrawn Middlesex-London riding? We sat down with Liberal candidate Kent Keenan to learn more about him.
As police search for the parents of an abandoned baby boy, a behind-the-scenes process involving child welfare officials is underway.
The London Knights went to three straight Memorial Cups after taking Bo Horvat ninth overall in the 2011 OHL draft and trading for fellow first-rounder Max Domi. The current three-year run of success stems from the 2021 draft when London selected Denver Barkey, Easton Cowan and Oliver Bonk from picks 16-26. Now, first-place London will […]
By month's end, downtown London drivers will confront a major change: buses coming the other way in one lane of King Street, a longtime one-way street.