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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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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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.
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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.
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When their flip-clock radios woke them on April Fools' Day 50 years ago, many Canadians might have thought they'd entered an alternate universe.
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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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LFP's Jack Moulton digs into what led to city council taking direct control over the London's bus service.
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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 […]
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The London region's Indigenous health agency is in turmoil, jeopardizing the well-being of staff and health of thousands of patients
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London city hall is suing the builder and architects of an east London community centre.