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 […]
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Anti-gun violence activists pressed Michigan lawmakers to fund resources for domestic violence survivors Tuesday during a rally on the Capitol steps.
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City council has rejected staff’s recommendation to quash a proposed northwest London apartment building, approving the project with fewer floors than first proposed and arguing the need for housing outweighs concerns over height and parking. Politicians voted 13-2 to approve an eight-storey apartment building, down from the proposed 10 storeys, at 801 Sarnia Rd., immediately to […]
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Officials with the London region’s largest school board say they have no plans to send any more students on class trips to the United States amid uncertainty at the border since President Donald Trump’s re-election. While student treks to America have been common for decades, the Thames Valley District school board “isn’t planning any future […]
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A heated discussion about the future of a homeless encampment near downtown London caused politicians to evacuate chambers and a woman to be barred from city hall.
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Taylor Elgersma will never forget his first visit to a National Football League stadium.
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First was former New Jersey Devils forward Michael McLeod. “Not guilty,” he said twice, once after hearing the charge of sexual assault and again after hearing his second charge of sexual assault as a party to the offence. Ready for his trial. He sat down. Next was former Philadelphia Flyers goaltender Carter Hart. “Not guilty.” […]
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Gordon Berg learned about Hospice of Michigan while playing music for small groups at the assisted living facility where his mother lived. When he saw a hospice volunteer playing music for one of the residents, he volunteered to do the same.
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There is healing in coaxing food from the earth, unparalleled by any meditation app or "news holiday" one might turn to for a moment's peace
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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.