Shut down by the pandemic, a local charitable initiative is being reinstated by Kincardine and District Senior School (KDSS) after a five-year hiatus. “We are excited to be bringing the Christmas Knights event back as we work directly with the Kincardine Food Bank,” Sophia Booth, KDSS Christmas Knights student co-ordinator, said in an email. The […]
Rents across London dropped at one of the fastest rates in the country in October, the latest snapshot of Canada’s rental market shows. But the downward pressure on prices – the result of softening demand and increasing supply of units – is doing little to bring rents down in a particular segment of London’s market: […]
By Eric Freedman
Tiny pieces of moss can be crime-busters, says a study examining how law enforcement agencies, forensic teams and botanists have used moss to solve murders, track missing people, calculate how long ago someone died and – in a notorious Mason County case – try to locate the body of a baby murdered by her father.
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London's speed cameras were shut off Thursday night and removed starting Friday, meeting the deadline set by Queen's Park
A Free Press reader finds faulty reasoning behind London council's justification for a 35-per-cent wage increase in their salaries.
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald going down during a violent Lake Superior storm in November of 1975, dozens of swimmers braved those same waters to […]
The Edmund Fitzgerald went down in Lake Superior 50 years ago on Nov. 10, 1975. Two journalists have their own stories to tell of the famed vessel. Read the full […]
It’s back. Snow has touched down in London for the first time this season, with the city waking up to a light dusting on Sunday morning as Environment Canada issued a special weather statement for the region. Londoners can expect around five centimetres of snow on Sunday, according to the national weather agency, with wind […]
The smart money instantly assumed something new and embarrassing was coming out about the U.S. president and Jeffery Epstein
This is why the London Knights traded for Braidy Wassilyn
By Eric Freedman
A horse-drawn carriage. A runaway horse. A crash. Sounds like an old-fashioned drama – not a bizarre 21st-century event. But that’s what happened three years ago when a visitor was injured while riding in a horse-drawn omnibus at Greenfield Village. The Court of Appeals has refused to reinstate her negligence suit against The Henry Ford and the driver.
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Dozens of students en route to a two-night field trip in Point Pelee were aboard a school bus that crashed along Hwy. 401 near London on Sunday morning, shutting down the westbound lanes for hours. The students from Kitchener Waterloo Collegiate, a high school in Kitchener, left Sunday morning for a two-night trip with their […]