Author: The London Free Press
GRAPHIC: Helem will blow your mind and blur boundaries
At the top of my Black History Month reading list is the surreal Helem, from Afro-Canadian Montrealer Stanley Wany. Put out by East Coast publishing house Conundrum Press, this nearly wordless graphic novel defies easy explanation. It will challenge you. Days after reading Helem, I’m still thinking about it, and that’s why the book is […]
Letters to the Editor: Feb. 12
Endgame hard to see While we are all tired of the necessary limits put on our lives by COVID, I am at a loss to figure out what the Ottawa and border protesters think they will accomplish. The protests at the borders are restricting the work of their own colleagues, truckers. They all protest mandates […]
Drug dealer sentenced to prison in woman’s fatal fentanyl overdose
A man who helped cook up a deadly batch of drugs that killed a Norfolk County woman two years ago has been sentenced to prison. Jeffery Steven McLean, 47, didn’t appear in person in Simcoe’s Ontario Court last month due to a snow storm, but was required to turn himself in to OPP officers the […]
London pair charged after OPP seize $16K in stolen exotic birds
Two Londoners face charges after officers seized exotic birds worth $16,000 from an area home, provincial police say. The birds were stolen from an Egrement Drive home in Adelaide Metcalfe Township last month, Middlesex OPP said Friday. On Feb. 1, OPP teams searched a London home and returned “a quantity of birds” to their owner. […]
London officers sent to Ottawa, Windsor to help police protests
London police have sent a team of officers to Ottawa to help deal with a protest that’s stretching into a third weekend.