Category: London Free Press
Peace: Funding boost little solace for Ontario’s small universities
Despite this month’s funding announcement, Ontario’s small universities will remain in crisis. Paralyzed by a tuition cap, provincial funding freeze and federal restrictions on international students, small university campuses have been doing more with less for years. Campuses have closed or been restructured. An announcement by the province on Feb. 12 to restore some post-secondary funding after nearly a decade of cutbacks will certainly make a difference, but its impact will not reverse the […]
LFP Letters to the Editor: February 28, 2026
A Free Press reader says a recent visit to Victoria Hospital emergency department felt more like stepping into an all-purpose crisis centre.
Brews News: Campaign targets beer taxes as affordability issue
Is a pint too pricey? Yes, but don’t blame your favourite brewer. That bitter taste as you sip comes from a tax that increases automatically. Beer Canada, an organization that’s been advocating for the national beer industry since 1943, points out the federal beer excise duty is set to rise again on April 1. Increases […]
Baranyai: Better AI, online guardrails long overdue in Canada
It will be a long time before grief releases the small community of Tumbler Ridge from its talons. Canadians are reeling over the second-deadliest school shooting in our history. That such a ranking even exists compounds the horror. At the centre of this tragedy are the bereaved families of five children and a teaching aide […]
Dyer: End of Russia’s war on Ukraine not imminent
“Breathe deeply, calm down, and don’t go running to stock up on food and matches,” President Volodymyr Zelensky told Ukrainians one month before the Russian tanks rolled across the border on Feb. 24, 2022. The American and British intelligence services knew Russia was going to invade and told Zelensky so, but neither he nor his […]