Category: Midwestern Ontario
Could ‘quick communities’ better aid London’s 1,900 homeless citizens?
A pair of London city councillors want city hall staff to look into “quick communities” to ease the homelessness crisis. Everything from quickly built portable sleeping structures to tiny homes should be examined to ensure London is doing everything it can to provide shelter and housing, Ward 11 Coun. Skylar Franke said. “We want to […]
City budget: Politicians re-visiting 2024-27 spending as big tax hikes loom
Taxpayers, hang on to your wallets. Next week, city hall will kick off its 2025 budget update, tweaking and amending the 2024-27 budget passed this year by city council. While meant to be geared toward relatively small changes, it’s possible old fights could resurface. LFP’s Jack Moulton breaks down what to expect. WHAT IS DIFFERENT […]
Never Shall Their Glory Fade details the history of Huron’s cenotaphs
HURON – Just in time for Remembrance Day, a new book by prize-winning photographer Conrad Kuiper and local historian David Yates illustrates through pictures and stories the story of Huron County’s cenotaphs. A press release describes Never Shall Their Glory Fade: The History of Huron County’s Cenotaphs as an important contribution to an important era […]
A loss stung the Western Mustangs. Their defence has responded with force
Last month, the Western football team surrendered 43 points to the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks. That defeat cost the Mustangs the national No. 1 ranking, first place in the Ontario conference and a helpful opening-round playoff bye. That’s a lot of gut punches in one afternoon. The goal now, heading into an OUA quarterfinal matchup […]
London man charged after ride-share driver faces knifepoint threat
A London man has been charged after a ride-share driver was threatened with a knife, police say. London police say a passenger was picked up by a driver from a ride-share app â such as Uber or Lyft, though it wasn’t specified by police â shortly after 11:30 p.m. last Saturday. Police say the passenger […]
London police dog handler cleared in bitten suspect’s arrest
Ontario’s police watchdog found no evidence of wrongdoing in the arrest of a suspect brought to the ground by a police dog that bit his arm.
No, Canada’s half-point interest rate cut won’t ignite London-area home sales
Wednesday’s supersized interest rate cut by the Bank of Canada may finally pull some buyers and sellers back into London’s housing market, but don’t expect the latest drop to heat it up much just yet, industry watchers say.
Eight months in, little uptake on city hall cash to turn core offices into housing
Eight months after being introduced, London’s subsidy to turn empty office space into homes has a grand total of one project with money committed to it, while one more is publicly known to be in the works. Reporter Jack Moulton takes a look at why uptake has been so tepid in a city flush with […]
Letters to the Editor: October 24, 2024
Don’t stop trying Amsterdam, in the 1970s, was a car-dominant grid-locked city much like Toronto is and much like where London is headed. The notoriously inventive and cost-conscious Dutch retrofitted many of their cities in order to make them more efficient, less costly, and more habitable. To be fair, they did so through numerous urban […]
Politicians push back against how city-funded boards use taxpayer money
Amid public backlash to the London police board spending more than $100,000 for advice on how to sell its record-setting budget request, two city councillors want a new guideline on the use of taxpayers’ money for budget pitches. The police board paid Navigator, a Toronto-based crisis communications firm with a history of representing high-profile clients, […]