Category: London Free Press
Councillor loses bid to quash homeless drop-in services at Ark Aid
Funding for homeless drop-in services at Ark Aid Street Mission will continue to flow, despite the ward councillor putting up an intense fight to halt it. In a 9-5 vote at a city council meeting Tuesday, councillors resurrected a motion quashed at a committee meeting in March to give $611,000 to the agency so it […]
$100K in drugs, gear seized, man charged: London police
A London man faces drug and weapons charges after officers seized more than $100,000 in drugs and gear, city police said Wednesday. Officers responding to reports of a man with a gun in the 400 block of Thompson Road in the city’s east end Friday arrested a suspect without incident and searched a home, police […]
Fanshawe suspends enrolment in 40 programs in wake of foreign student caps
Fanshawe College is suspending enrolment of students in 40 of its over 220 programs, the school announced Tuesday.
Exiting Conservative MP won’t endorse her party’s new candidate
A departing Conservative MP with deep roots in a London-area riding won’t endorse any candidate to succeed her, not even the one running under her longtime party’s banner. Karen Vecchio, who had represented Elgin-Middlesex-London since 2015, said she won’t publicly support anyone to fill her vacated seat, now renamed Elgin-St. Thomas-London South after the riding’s […]
Drewlo Holdings sweetens pot for tenants in rent-save-own program
One of London’s largest landlords is revamping a program to help renters get into homeownership, boosting how much residents can save toward the price of a new home