Author: Interlochen Public Radio
Sims: Vast majority still doing all they can to protect themselves, others
One of the first things London’s Mayor Ed Holder wanted to talk about at Tuesday’s health unit media briefing on COVID-19 was how his daughter was harassed by someone refusing to wear a required face mask in her small business. Regretfully, there wasn’t anything overly unusual about the account, given what so many in retail […]
Amid pandemic, mental-health leaves for area teachers skyrocketed
Facing skyrocketing employee mental health claims, Thames Valley District school board trustees on Tuesday night approved immediately hiring a full-time official to oversee staff wellbeing. Trustees for the region’s largest school board approved the new position in the wake of a 44 per cent increase in new staff claims – for short- or long-term medical […]
London area sees third straight day with no new COVID deaths
Tuesday marked a third straight day with no new COVID-19 deaths in London and Middlesex County, the longest stretch without a fatality in weeks, per unofficial LFP records. But four deaths were recorded Saturday, bringing the February toll to 40, per LFP records. The second-deadliest month of the pandemic was January, with 46 fatal COVID […]
Letters to the Editor: Feb. 23
Think of others The truck convoy protest in Ottawa was, in part, an demand for freedom to decline COVID-19 vaccination without consequences. However, our society is tightly interconnected and exercising this right has implications for the rest of us. Unvaccinated individuals have a greater risk than an vaccinated person of hospitalization and intensive care unit […]
Nearly one in six London Transit buses idled as COVID snarls parts supply
Think the global supply chain problems caused by COVID-19 are only felt at the grocery store or with that backordered couch you bought? Think again. London Transit Commission has been forced to sideline 15 per cent of its fleet because it can’t get parts needed to repair them. There’s no panic yet for the transit […]