Tag: homelessness
A ‘brutal’ daily lottery decides who gets in, who gets left out at London shelter
The names are drawn and the lucky 30 have a warm place to stay the night. The rest, well, who knows for sure?
‘One step forward and 50 back’: London woman’s home dream upended
Tanya Burke, a London woman who moved into an apartment in November after two years of living on the streets, hoped the Christmas holidays would be different this year. For three weeks, the 44-year-old was happy and grateful to have a roof over her head. She cleaned up her modest basement apartment in a multi-unit […]
City council’s code of conduct: One politician, four probes in the past year
Here’s how city council’s code of conduct works, and who’s been in the spotlight.
Anxiety, anger and a punished London city councillor’s defiance
City council took the ultra-rare step of docking her a month’s pay for past conduct.
Woman gets six years in prison for kidnapping in grisly slaying
A woman initially charged with first-degree murder in the death of a Windsor man who was shot, dismembered and burned on Walpole Island in 2021 was sentenced Tuesday to six years behind bars for kidnapping.