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 […]
In a tight 8-7 vote, London city council has decided to pull its share of funding from a recruitment drive to bring desperately needed family doctors to the city. LFP’s Jack Moulton looks at the program: what it does, why funding was yanked, and what it will mean going forward. WHAT IS THE PROGRAM? The […]
The first-ever London police chief’s gala raised more than $200,000 for a pair of local non-profits and will become an annual event, according to a new staff report.
To bring the tax increase down the needed 23 per cent, or 1.5 percentage points, would mean finding $13 million in savings.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre vowed to put Canada first again as he addressed a roaring crowd of supporters at downtown London’s convention centre on Sunday. Poilievre held the rally at RBC Place London just hours before he was to learn who he’ll be facing in the next federal election, which could be called as early […]
The board that oversees the London Public Library now includes Mayor Josh Morgan, even though its chair pushed back on the city's top politician joining it.
A city councillor is calling on the police chief to speak out against remarks Ontario Premier Doug Ford made in London about bringing back the death penalty during a speech at the chief's gala last month.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s office isn’t offering any more details about his promise to build a new police college with a massive price tag.
Premier Doug Ford capped off the first day of Ontario’s election campaign in London, where he pledged his government would spend $1 billion to build a new police college. Ford made the vow Wednesday evening when he spoke to a crowd of London police officers and other guests at the
Promised by Premier Doug Ford last fall, $200 cheques are now landing in mailboxes across Ontario. Heather Rivers reports on what you need to know about them.
Josh Morgan plans to use his relatively new "strong mayor" powers to rein in the property-tax hike Londoners will face in 2026, the final year of his term, he said in his State of the City address on Thursday.