Author: Great Lakes Commission
A towering debate: Our full coverage
A London homeless shelter has challenged city council’s approval of a 24-storey Old East Village apartment tower to a provincial tribunal, which could overturn the council decision – and, more broadly, set an affordable-housing precedent that would thrill anti-poverty advocates and frustrate developers. The five-day hearing has wrapped up and a decision looms in the […]
Silence amid plea to scrap cross-border COVID testing: Sarnia mayor
It may be time to renew a call from border-city mayors for the federal government to scrap costly COVID-19 testing for travelers to Canada from the United States, Sarnia’s mayor says. That’s after a March 3 open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from elected officials in15 border cities, from New Brunswick to British Columbia, […]
London readies to welcome Ukraine refugees – but many refuse to flee
Volodymyr Starodub is ready to welcome his Ukrainian parents and in-laws to Canada, but his elderly kin aren’t ready to leave. London families with relatives in the eastern European nation are grappling with the stay-or-go dilemma nearly three weeks into Russia’s war on Ukraine, with some choosing to stay put as the federal government fast-tracks […]
SWEET! Popular local doughnut shop expanding beyond London
The Railway City is getting a sweet new addition this summer.
Q+A: How will school change when COVID measures end March 21?
We asked Thames Valley District school board education director Mark Fisher about classroom life after COVID-19 measures, such as mandatory masking, social distancing and cohorts, end.