Category: Midwestern Ontario
LFP Letters to the Editor: June 4, 2026
A Free Press reader would like London to be known as “a large Canadian city with a small city property tax load.”
Controversial 299-unit apartment project faces setback
A controversial apartment proposal in northeast London has been dealt a blow, with city staff recommending its refusal as hundreds of residents formally oppose the project and some politicians withdraw their support. Proposed at the southeast corner of Fanshawe Park Road East and Geary Avenue, just west of Adelaide Street, is an eight-storey, 299-unit apartment […]
Q+A: Is Ontario headed for a teacher strike this fall?
All of Ontario’s education unions will be spending the summer break negotiating their new collective agreements. Should parents be worried?
Q+A: Is Ontario headed for a teacher strike this fall?
TORONTO – Students are starting summer break in the next few weeks, but whether classes will resume normally in the fall is now in the hands of the Ontario government and education unions. On Wednesday, all Ontario’s education unions served notice of their intent to begin bargaining their next four-year contracts ahead of the expiration […]
Can defence spending save Ontario’s auto-parts sector?
Even before trade tensions between Canada and the United States became an existential threat for Southwestern Ontario manufacturers, Dave Johnson, general manager at London-based Ursa Manufacturing ULC, said he had been “avidly” looking for opportunities to diversify the products the company makes. After all, about 75 per cent of the company’s business is tied to […]