Tag: Hospitals
Provincial election call launches local parties into campaign mode
With Ontario Premier Doug Ford sending people to the polls Feb. 27, local politicial parties have a lot of work ahead of them. The Conservative leader has confirmed he will be visiting the lieutenant-governor Tuesday to dissolve the legislature and have the writs issued on Wednesday. That puts fire under the feet of Bruce-Grey-Owen Sound […]
Grey County officials have fingers crossed after ROMA
Grey County pitched health-care, transit and other requests to provincial officials at the Rural Ontario Municipal Association conference in Toronto last week. Now, they wait. Thursday at county council, the county’s deputy chief administrative officer, Randy Scherzer, summarized the meetings county staff and councillors had with senior Ontario government officials. The county asked the Ministry […]
Doctor loses court challenge over local hospital’s COVID-19 vaccine rules
A doctor whose privileges to practice at a Strathroy hospital were revoked over his COVID-19 vaccination status has lost his court challenge to get them reinstated.
Counties to make their pitch to province at ROMA conference
Grey-Bruce politicians and senior staff will hear about issues important to municipalities and present their needs to their provincial counterparts at the annual Rural Ontario Municipal Association conference which starts Sunday. They’ll be among 1,900 participants from hundreds of municipalities and organizations across Ontario attending the four-day event at the Sheraton Centre hotel in downtown […]
LHSC’s innovative off-site surgical centre to triple in size
The off-site surgical centre across the street from Victoria Hospital is being expanded to triple its capacity, the province says. The Nazem Kadri surgical centre, named in honour of the NHL star and London native, will be renovated and expanded to add four operating rooms, bringing the total to six. The centre offers daytime, non-urgent […]
Independent review gives high marks to Woodstock Hospital
A Southwestern Ontario hospital’s performance has been given the highest recognition possible by an independent agency’s analysis.
Q+A: Rookie director reflects on her rare made-in-London movie
London muralist Jen Romnes found a pandemic passion for screenwriting, a creative pastime that made her switch from fine art to filmmaking.
Grey-Bruce’s New Year’s Baby adjusting to life in the spotlight
Walter Boone Twigger-Swannell is adjusting to newfound fame and the bright lights of the outside world after becoming Grey-Bruce’s New Year’s Baby at 2:56 a.m. on Jan. 1, 2025, at the Brightshores hospital in Owen Sound. Weighing in at just over seven pounds and born to Devon Twigger and Travis Swannell of Meaford, Walter is […]
School software data breach affects London Catholic board students, staff
Data of some students and staff at the London District Catholic school board was compromised in a breach involving software used by schools across North America to store student information. The board notified staff and students Friday about the data breach of the PowerSchool Student Information System, a program used by boards in Canada and […]
London region digging out from snowy blast â with more to come
The London area woke up Wednesday under a continued snow squall warning following a heavy dump of snow overnight that forced the cancellation of school buses and classes for thousands of kids across the region. An additional 15 to 25 centimetres of snow was expected to fall throughout the day thanks to a storm system […]