Category: Midwestern Ontario
Nearly 600 Community Living London workers hit picket lines as strike begins
Nearly 600 workers supporting the disabled in London have walked off the job.
Woman charged with assault after clash during school function, police say
A 42-year-old woman faces an assault charge stemming from a disturbance at an Aylmer school last week, police say.
Students set to stage beloved musical rarely seen in high schools: ‘A lot of courage’
A big-name theatrical production based on real events during uncertain times is set to be staged at a St. Thomas high school. St. Joseph’s Catholic high school will stage one of the first student productions of Come From Away, the amateur rights for which were only granted a few months ago, said Rob Bannerman, a […]
Local education workers speak out about job stress, effect on students
Provincial funding they slam as insufficient is hitting the London-area education system hard, especially in special education where workers are facing frequent trauma, say the heads of three unions representing 6,000-plus workers in the Catholic and public boards. “We have a lot of violence, a lot of failure to fills (where) people take a day […]
Tornado experts sound alarm over ‘AI-generated’ images after wild storm: ‘Fakes’
A handful of widely shared images purporting to show tornadoes in the London area during last week’s severe storm were fakes, say researchers at Western University who are urging citizens to be aware when viewing such photos. It was the evening of May 19, last Tuesday, when wild storms lashed London and much of the […]