Month: June 2024
London fire, ambulance services feeling staffing fallout of COVID-19 surge
As Omicron surges across Ontario, two of the London-area’s emergency services are grappling with employees off work due to COVID-19. The Middlesex-London Paramedic Service says 26 paramedics are temporarily off work after testing positive for the virus or coming into close contact with it. Seventeen workers are deemed high risk, and eight were infected as […]
Mayor’s honour list salutes 11 Londoners who lead in making city better
When Mandi Fields and Kait Symonds launched efforts to help provide essentials — everything from tampons to baby gear — to people in need, neither imagined they would end up on London’s annual honour roll. Fields and Symonds are two of 11 Londoners on the 2022 Mayor’s New Year’s Honour List, alongside Olympic gold medalist […]
11 Londoners named to Mayor’s New Year’s Honour List
A three-time Olympic medalist, a teenage accessibility advocate, and a man who has spent more than three decades with the London food bank are among 11 people being honoured by London’s mayor. Ed Holder released his 2022 Mayor’s New Year’s Honour List on Saturday. The annual list recognizes significant contributions to the city in a variety of […]
Be a good environmentalist. Dump your tree
The Nature Conservancy of Canada hopes you will dump it in your own yard and not some ditch because even though you may not appreciate it anymore, there’s a lot of wildlife that will.
Brews News: A sixth sense about the year’s beer
Six wins, six Hail Mary trends, six thoughts.
Growing Concerns: Put your winter garden dreams in a journal
At this time of year, I spend a lot of time poring over gardening magazines, seed catalogues and websites of awesome gardens.
Cornies: Language is alive, maybe optimism can be too
In a Zoom meeting about two weeks ago, one of the speakers used a word he thought captured the mood of this year’s holiday season: “anticipointment.”