Tag: budget
Ousted top executive, administrator file lawsuits against London hospital
Two former London Health Sciences staffers, including a top executive, are seeking a combined $1.88-million in damages from the hospital in separate wrongful termination lawsuits, litigation LHSC is vowing to defend against.
‘Strong mayor’ powers needed to speed affordable housing: City staff
Strong mayor powers could soon become a more common tool at London city hall, with the suggestion it could get affordable housing built faster.
Trio charged after shooting at east-end home: London police
Three people are facing weapons charges after a shooting early Saturday at a home in London’s east end. London police say three adults went to a home on Sanders Street, near Hamilton Road and Highbury Avenue, shortly after midnight on Saturday. One suspect knocked on the door and told the occupant they were looking for […]
Sharing food at Thanksgiving makes OSHaRE leader thankful
Six people worked briskly filling orders from people who lined up at the OSHaRE counter on Saturday afternoon of this Thanksgiving weekend. Colleen Trask Seaman greeted each guest with a smile, usually by name, and asked them what each wanted. “Do you like cranberries?” she must have asked 150 times through a plastic divider in […]
Grey County task force seeks to make some busy rural roads safer
A Grey County task force proposes to transfer more than 50 kilometres of its urban county roads, bridges and sewers to municipalities and assume and make safer certain increasingly busy rural municipal roads roads in exchange for other county rural roads. County council decided Thursday to receive a report which provided lists of affected roads, […]
ANALYSIS: Why London has no winter homelessness plan beyond Dec. 31
City officials say they’ve got homeless Londoners living outside â more than 180 at last count â covered for the first part of winter.
Bruce County council gets first look at 2025 draft budget
Bruce County‘s draft budget is calling for a 6.81 per cent tax levy increase next year. County staff on Thursday presented the proposed 2025 capital and operating budgets to council. The proposed 6.81 per cent increase, which includes a 1.5 per cent growth assumption would result in an $82 increase in county taxes for the […]
This Historic Ship Runs on Coal. Can It Find a New Way Forward? | Great Lakes Now
By Phil McKenna, Inside Climate News
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Bus rapid transit: The very latest on construction, expected completion date
Reporter Jack Moulton takes a look at where things stand, and what comes next.
Thames Valley enrolment woes will cost board millions: Trustee
A Thames Valley trustee took senior staff to task over inaccurate projections of student enrolment this fall, a miscalculation that could push the board’s $7.6-million deficit deeper in the red. Cathy Lynd, superintendent of business and treasurer of the Thames Valley District school board, told trustees at a board committee meeting on Tuesday that projections […]