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 […]
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Passenger vehicle traffic at the Blue Water Bridge was down 23 per cent in March compared to the same month last year amid the trade war.
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The new federal riding of Middlesex-London takes in all of London north of Fanshawe Park Road, drawing some city residents into a largely rural race.
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Ontario grain growers – caught in the crossfire of Canada's trade war – speak about how tariffs will affect their operations
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SARNIA – A Lambton County man convicted of mischief around the time a stretch of Highway 402 was shuttered during the 2022 so-called Freedom Convoy has been jailed for a series of new crimes including assaulting and obstructing a police officer. Steve Verberne, 48, from Watford, recently pleaded guilty to those two charges along with […]
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The late Gene Hackman, an Oscar-winning actor found dead last week with his wife, had a close connection to Sarnia.
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The death of an infant in a community near Sarnia is being investigated by the OPP. Lambton EMS and other emergency services responded to a report of an unresponsive infant at a home on St. Clair Street in Point Edward on Saturday at about 1:25 a.m., Lambton OPP said Monday. Point Edward is a village […]
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With the nomination deadline over, and the contests now set, Jennifer Bieman breaks down the ridings and who's running in the London region.
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Thick and malty Black Gold Smoked Porter captured gold in the Ontario Brewing Awards
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Parts of Southwestern Ontario are losing more than two weeks of sub-zero days each winter due to climate change, a new report says. In London and Middlesex County, there are an average of nine additional above-freezing days each December to February, a trend that may lead to more ice storms and flooding, one renowned climate […]
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Area conservation authorities are warning the public to be cautious around slippery riverbanks as a blast of above-zero weather melts snow dumped on the London region last week.  Environment Canada was calling for a high of 3 C and rain on Monday, followed by above-freezing temperatures through Wednesday before cooling