In an election-night shocker, Conservative candidate Kurt Holman turned his low-profile first run for public office into a huge win by taking London-Fanshawe in Monday night’s federal election, ousting NDPer Lindsay Mathyssen. LFP reporter Jonathan Juha spoke with him in the afterglow of his victory. Let’s start from the beginning. Tell us a bit about […]
The Conservatives tightened their grip Monday on the 10-riding London region, snatching an urban riding in London to increase the party’s seat count to eight. Kurt Holman, who knocked off the NDP’s Lyndsay Mathyssen in London-Fanshawe, and Andrew Lawton, who took Elgin-St. Thomas-London South after a bruising campaign, are the new faces for the Conservatives […]
It’s all over but the voting as a snap federal election for the ages concludes Monday. Our Jack Moulton has all you need to know in the 10-riding London region: LIVE COVERAGE AT LFPRESS.COM London Free Press reporters and other Postmedia newsrooms nearby are fanning out Monday night to bring you live coverage of the […]
London and Kitchener seem to meet every spring in the playoffs and it’s safe to say the two teams generally hate each other
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 […]
City council has rejected staff’s recommendation to quash a proposed northwest London apartment building, approving the project with fewer floors than first proposed and arguing the need for housing outweighs concerns over height and parking. Politicians voted 13-2 to approve an eight-storey apartment building, down from the proposed 10 storeys, at 801 Sarnia Rd., immediately to […]
Officials with the London region’s largest school board say they have no plans to send any more students on class trips to the United States amid uncertainty at the border since President Donald Trump’s re-election. While student treks to America have been common for decades, the Thames Valley District school board “isn’t planning any future […]
SARNIA – Kyle Herron’s own lawyer offered him a caution before he was led out of a Sarnia courtroom to serve a three-year prison sentence for drug trafficking. “If he falls back into this conduct next time around, it’ll be probably double the three years,” Robert McFadden said. Herron, 26, was arrested about a year […]
Denver Barkey wouldn’t let the Knights get rattled. When Kasper Halttunen’s goal early in overtime was reversed for an offside entry after a marathon video review, the London captain made sure his teammates stayed focused. A few minutes later, Sam O’Reilly completed the sweep of the Otters with a tally 6:49 into the extra session […]
Ashley Bourget called her poem “Small Child” – but it contained a big, glaring comment that kept it out of a jailhouse poetry-writing competition. Instead, her creative writing from October 2023 while she was behind bars became evidence at her first-degree murder trial in the death of high-level drug dealer Grant Norton. “Now that I’m […]
There’s an increasingly common housing trend in London: infill development. Much of the city’s new development is rising on existing lots, not undeveloped land. LFP’s Jack Moulton looks at why infill has taken off recently, and if may be here to stay. WHAT’S HAPPENING? Infill has become a focus of most meetings of council’s planning […]