Tariffs landed with a thud in Ontario’s industrial heartland Thursday, shuttering one major automaker and spreading uncertainty among smaller automotive parts suppliers across the London. The U.S. held to its pledge to punish manufacturers shipping goods south of the border, charging a 25 per cent tariff on automobiles, tariffs on some automotive parts in addition […]
Mayor Josh Morgan and the city's economic development agency respond to U.S. President Donald Trump's latest decrees on tariffs
Home sales in the London area plummeted in March, new figures show, deepening a slump that’s now run through the first quarter of 2025. Only 508 homes were sold last month in the London area, which also takes in Strathroy, St. Thomas and portions of Middlesex and Elgin counties, the London and St. Thomas Association […]
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On a morning in late spring, my husband and I are canoeing a section of the Manistee River. Close to shore a merganser duck is swimming with ten ducklings in a row behind her. Ten.
Trump tariffs poised to hammer Canada’s auto industry could slash the London region automotive workforce by half, as the cost of exports to the U.S. will spike, industry observers say. With more than 20,000 employed in the automotive sector here, about 10,000 jobs may be lost within weeks of tariffs being imposed, they said. That […]
A Free Press reader has been increasingly concerned that "downtown has been left to rot and has been taken over by the homeless."
Odd Burger is walking back plans to expand into America, citing worsening Canada-U.S. relations as a key factor.
If it hadn’t been for the trees, Grant Norton’s body might have been lost in the Forest City.
With a federal election campaign set to kick off Sunday, a Liberal candidate in a London-area riding held by the Conservatives says U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs motivated him to run. David Goodwin, a first-time candidate who spent a decade as a member of the Liberal riding association including an eight-year stint as chair, said […]