Author: Michigan Public
Pandemic helps London software developer make inroads in U.S. health-care market
A London software developer has landed a deal with a Texas-based health-care provider to enable patient care, from a distance. Sensory Technologies on Collip Circle is partnering with Resilient Healthcare that will use Sensory’s eShift software for in-home patient care. For Sensory Technologies, it is a major inroad into the U.S. market, chief executive Patrick […]
COVID-19 cases growing among London hospital workers as Omicron rages
COVID-19 cases among employees at London’s largest hospital have now nearly tripled from levels recorded nearly a week ago. London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) now has 152 staff, or roughly one per cent of its 15,000 employees, who have tested positive for the virus, up from 104 reported Tuesday. “This amounts approximately to one per […]
Replacement EV charger the gift that keeps on giving for London green retailer
When Heenal Rajani opened Reimagine Co, his package-free Piccadilly Street grocery store, late last year, he dreamed of offering an electric vehicle charger to encourage customers and other businesses to use EVs and help save the planet, he says. His dream came true less than a month later – and eventually helped see his business […]
Rozdilsky: No choice but hunkering down
It’s time to accept we can’t manage our way out of COVID-19 pandemic
More income inequality leads to more COVID cases: Western researcher
A Western University researcher says his team’s research of income inequality in 127 countries found that countries with greater income inequality had higher rates of COVID-19 cases and more deaths, at least in the pre-vaccine stage of the pandemic. James Davies, a professor in the university’s department of economics, said the rate of economic distance […]
Q+A: Retiring London city clerk Cathy Saunders
Cathy Saunders looked back on her career, from her days as Barrie’s only female bylaw officer to 12 years at the helm in London, and ahead to retirement.
London’s New Year’s baby arrives one minute into 2022
One minute after the big New Year’s Eve countdown, London recorded its first baby born in 2022. Christine Elgar and Ben Monis welcomed their baby boy, Niall, at 12:01 a.m. Saturday at the London Health Sciences Centre. The baby, who weighs six pounds and eight ounces, and the parents are “doing well” following the early-morning […]
Family of five unhurt, flees shoeless from New Year’s Day fire in London
A family of five was unhurt, but their London townhouse was heavily damaged after a New Year’s Day blaze ripped through it Saturday morning. Firefighters responded about 10:45 a.m. after 911 calls came in reporting smoke and flames at a townhouse at 127 Toulan Cres., just east of Clarke Road and Trafalgar Street, platoon chief […]
Belanger: We have an open book today, so let’s write a good one for 2022
When we wake tomorrow, for many of us it will feel more like Groundhog Day, the movie.
Number of granny suites in London slowly inches up
All those suites for granny – or grandpa – are adding “gentle density” in London, a city grappling with a major housing crisis.