Here’s your primer on the five London-area races and ridings and the contests in the wider five-riding region for Monday’s federal election. LONDON CENTRE The riding: It’s sort of a new kid on the block this time with a new name — it had been London-North-Centre — and new boundaries that leave out the northernmost […]
Central Elgin is establishing a planning department to prepare for a population surge driven by Volkswagen’s massive electric vehicle battery plant scheduled to open in neighbouring St. Thomas in 2027. A largely rural municipality bordering St. Thomas, Central Elgin announced Tuesday it starting a “transformative initiative” by seeking a planning manager, senior planner and planning […]
A departing Conservative MP with deep roots in a London-area riding won’t endorse any candidate to succeed her, not even the one running under her longtime party’s banner. Karen Vecchio, who had represented Elgin-Middlesex-London since 2015, said she won’t publicly support anyone to fill her vacated seat, now renamed Elgin-St. Thomas-London South after the riding’s […]
Southwestern Ontario mayors are bracing for job losses due to U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war, but remain optimistic
