Officers responded to incidents at two separate St. Thomas schools this week involving students making threats, police say. The first incident was on Tuesday when officers were called to an unidentified high school after a student threatened a member of the administration, St. Thomas police stated in a news release on Friday. Officers went to […]
Former radio host Andrew Lawton, 35, retained the riding of Elgin-St. Thomas-London South for the Conservatives in Monday night’s federal election following a campaign marked by some inter-party tension and loud protests. He spoke with LFP reporter Brian Williams about his first political victory. Q. You campaigned unsuccessfully for Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives in the London […]
Parents of Indigenous children in the Thames Valley District school board face obstacles when trying to report incidents of racism in the system, according to a task force investigating potential racism in the board. “Our parents do experience barriers in reporting racism incidents in a timely manner,” said Indigenous trustee Gina McGahey. “It’s not knowing […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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The state House is poised to vote on legislation to allocate $75 million dollars toward recovery efforts following massive ice storms across northern Michigan in March.
The boys soccer teams from two Woodstock high schools, College Avenue and Huron Park, played at City Wide field in London on Monday. Photos by LFP’s Derek Ruttan druttan@postmedia.com
Oakridge secondary school principal will be following a bus load of high schoolers as they make their way across the Canada-U.S. border next week.
U.S.-Canada trade tensions led to a steep drop in Canadians heading south last month – a trend that, if it continues, could help boost the London region’s tourism sector, an industry watcher says. Some 1.5 million Canadians made return trips to the U.S. by car in March, a 31.9 per cent drop from the same […]
Parents feel they must “constantly advocate” to get support for their children with special education needs in London-area public schools, a new report states.
Thames Valley schools must have a plan in case students on 13 school trips to the U.S. are turned back at the border, officials say