Author: The London Free Press
Smaller communities help fuel London region’s booming growth: Census
The London region is among Canada’s fastest-growing metropolitan areas – and the fastest in Ontario – with its population growing by an astonishing 10 per cent in the last five years, new census data released Wednesday shows.
Sarnia-Michigan border logjam cleared overnight: Officials
SARNIA – Traffic cameras on Highway 402 in Sarnia showed trucks moving normally Wednesday morning in the westbound lanes leading to the Blue Water Bridge border crossing.
We asked: Should Woodstock Mayor Trevor Birtch step down?
On the streets of Woodstock, opinions varied whether Mayor Trevor Birtch should continue or step aside while his criminal charges are before the court. Birtch was charged last week with assault, sexual assault and sexual assault with choking. He isn’t taking part in meetings of the Woodstock police services board while an oversight body investigates, […]
Sims: Time to scrap testing rules, again, at Canada-U.S. border
I felt badly for those hard-working, fully vaccinated truckers lined up to get to the Blue Water Bridge after re-routing from the anti-government protests in Windsor. A transport traffic jam was backed up 10 kilometres at one point. By contrast, the cars-only lanes were practically empty. That’s not surprising since the federal government re-instated the […]
London city council briefs: Anti-Islamophobia plan, business pilot
News and notes from Tuesday night’s meeting at city hall: Plan to ‘disrupt Islamophobia’ endorsed A sweeping strategy to “disrupt Islamophobia” in London was endorsed unanimously on Tuesday night, prompting powerful comments from several city politicians. “I was born here . . . Still being treated as ‘other’ is just the weirdest thing,” Ward 6 […]