Tag: Explainer
If trustees are no longer in charge of the Thames Valley school board, who is?
Ontario education minister Paul Calandra has put the Thames Valley District school board – home to 84,000 students – under Queen’s Park supervision following a controversial three-day Toronto retreat by top officials last summer that cost $38,000. Investigators, auditing the board’s books, found a lack of financial oversight in the budgeting process led to a […]
Pierce: What will happen at the funeral of Pope Francis
Joanne M. Pierce, College of the Holy Cross The 88-year-old pontiff had been well aware of his fragile state and advanced age. As early as 2015, Pope Francis had expressed the desire to be buried in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, a fifth-century church in Rome dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. He was […]
City hall has a $60M budget surplus. You’ll get some of that back: Mayor
London’s mayor is pledging to provide relief to taxpayers in the final year of his term as a new city hall report details a budget surplus of nearly $60 million. The staff report on the city’s 2024 year-end operating budget outlines a $58.8 million surplus on the property tax budget, and a $700,000 surplus on […]
5 things to know about Adonis, London’s newest ethnic supermarket
Grocery giant Metro is muscling into London’s burgeoning ethnic grocery market with a massive new Adonis store, part of a Quebec-based Mediterranean and Middle Eastern grocery chain. Nearing completion on Wonderland Road South, it’s projected to open in August. Here are some things to know: WHAT IS ADONIS? Established in 1978 in Quebec by brothers […]
Pope Francis: London-area Catholics mourn death, praise ‘true pastor, shepherd’
Pope Francis died on Easter Monday at the age of 88 at his home in Vatican City following a stroke that led to heart failure. He had been ill since February when he was diagnosed with double pneumonia. Since a portion of his lung was removed in his early 20s, he had suffered frequent respiratory […]