Category: Midwestern Ontario
London man recounts gunfire that nearly struck family on home’s porch
A London man says he was sitting on the front porch of his home with his family when a gunman fired a single shot that narrowly missed them. The man, who asked not to be identified for safety reasons, said he was smoking on the front porch of his house on Julie Crescent, northeast of […]
50 years later, London woman pens memoir recounting ‘Hippie Trail’ trek
More than 50 years after travelling the so-called Hippie Trail, a long-time London resident is recounting the once-in-a-lifetime journey in her first memoir. Without the safety net of the internet or cellphones and with limited funds, Jean Ramer embarked on the Hippie Trail, the overland backpacking route popular among young travellers in the 1960s and […]
Skies clear, thousands gather for London’s 30th Pride parade: ‘A good feeling’
Thousands gathered downtown Sunday to watch London’s 30th Pride parade as it made its colourful march to close a 10-day festival celebrating the local LGBTQ community. Pride London president Robyn Hodgson said they expected larger crowds at the parade after weather forced organizers to cancel or pause many festivities this weekend: All scheduled events on […]
Dyer: If only both sides could lose in U.S.-Iran war
Is it inappropriate to wish that both sides could lose?
Baranyai: Dispatches from the war on ticks
Like most nature-based horrors, the arrival of ticks across our southern border is annoyingly self-inflicted