It's the $90,000 question: Should London's 14 city councillors earn that much annually to do their job?
London has won its share of Queen’s Park funding for meeting housing targets last year, but exactly how much remains up in the air. Provincial data has not been updated since December and only shows progress between January and October of 2024. Still, Mayor Josh Morgan said the city has reached roughly 95 per cent […]
Developers will be able to pitch their ideas for housing on a city-owned parking lot in Old East Village this summer after politicians were urged to slow the process down and do more consultation. Initiated by Mayor Josh Morgan through a strong mayor order last year, city hall staff had begun looking at the potential […]
Are population projections from Queen's Park for London and Middlesex County overblown?
It wasn’t long before the homeless returned to an encampment in the backyard of an east London home after police and firefighters cleared the scene following a fatal blaze, neighbours say. A fire ripped through 1884 Avalon St., northwest of Clarke Road and Dundas Street, on April 17, killing resident Teresa Cartwright and causing $500,000 […]
A planned expansion of a northwest London business district is being scaled back and delayed
$110 million during 10 years is the price for bringing London's public housing stock – 68 per cent of which is in poor or very poor condition – up to snuff
Several historic buildings in downtown London soon could meet the wrecking ball as city politicians endorsed knocking them down for a new highrise. York Developments has applied to demolish six heritage-designated, yellow-brick buildings in the St. George and Ann streets neighbourhood that date to 1859 and were the former home of the Kent Brewery, the […]
London politicians have killed a six-year effort to rename a west London street with slave-era connotations after soundly rejecting a double-pronged attempt to restart the process. During Tuesday’s city council meeting, politicians voted 9-6 both against renaming Plantation Road to Larch Road, and conducting more public engagement to consider a renaming. “The history of the […]
Flush with cash, London city council is set to debate whether to offer homeowners a break on sky-high property tax increases approved throughout this term or spend it supporting social and cultural programs. City hall has posted a nearly $60-million budget surplus this year and some politicians want to use roughly $17 million of the […]
A combined 70 per cent of respondent said politicians should be dedicating 30 to 59 hours a week to the job.