London Free Press
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 […]
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Nearly three dozen driver’s licences were seized and more than 500 offence notices were issued by London police during a month-long blitz of taxis and ride-share services. Police say over the course of March, officers working in their road safety section alog with city hall bylaw officers conducted a safety campaign targeting on-demand transportation services […]
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Potentially hundreds of current and former employees of a London Indigenous organization face up to 10 years of income tax bills after learning they don’t qualify for a federal tax exemption. The employees believed Canada’s Indian Act exempted them from paying income tax, but their employer, Atlohsa Family Healing Services, recently learned that’s not the […]
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The results are in. The first year of London’s green bin program, launched in January 2024, saw significant uptake and limited non-compliance, a new report to council’s community and protective services committee says. The program, the most significant change made to London’s waste collection system since 1996, reached 130,000 households and approximately 325,000 people. Our […]