Tag: Anna Hopkins
2025 city budget: Politicians OK $300K to fund downtown clean-up efforts
Downtown London’s business district will get some extra money for street cleaning and graffiti removal, but not for property damage or enhancing security
Councillors balk at adding more homeless encampment depots
London’s program to provide people who live in homeless encampments with food, water, garbage cleanup and portable washrooms is on shaky ground, after city councillors floated a lifeline until the end of February. Councillors ultimately voted 10-5 at a meeting Tuesday of city council’s strategic priorities and policy committee to endorse letting depots as they […]
City budget: Program that helps tenants stay housed gets second look
A number of local agencies for London’s vulnerable residents are going to bat for a cleaning program cut from the latest budget.
London’s high school football final turfed to St. Thomas
In fast-growing London, where recreational demands are only expected to increase, a place to safely play the final can’t be found at home.
London city council: Yes to annual tenant fair, no to public pest control
City hall will not move ahead on a public pest control team, but it will make a tenant fair an annual event, politicians decided Tuesday night. In a series of split votes, city council rejected reviewing the city’s property standards bylaw enforcement protocols in a 12-3 vote, and exploring a publicly funded pest extermination team […]