Tag: Josh Morgan
City budget: Don’t expect fights for more cash from London Transit, library
The 2025 city budget update process is now underway. After the tense four-year (2024-27) budget discussions last winter where only London police walked away with everything they wanted â how are London’s other biggest agencies faring with what they got? Reporter Jack Moulton takes a look. LONDON PUBLIC LIBRARY During last winter’s multi-year budget talks, […]
Everything you need to know about London’s 2025 city budget plans
London’s 2025 budget update has now been released, promising a smaller than anticipated tax hike through cutting community grants and not funding new year-round shelter beds in the core. LFP’s Jack Moulton chats with several city politicians about what they like, what’s missing, and what will be talked about. WHAT’S ON THE TABLE Before budget […]
Reader to Reader: November 2, 2024
Readers are thankful for great care and faster service at London’s hospitals
Mother of teen who died helps launch Shine the Light campaign
Dozens of city officials and community members dressed in purple gathered in Victoria Park on Friday for the start of the London Abused Womenâs Centreâs annual Shine the Light on Woman Abuse campaign. The mother of Samatha Lambert, a St. Catharines teen who was found dead in 2019, lit the Tree of Hope to mark […]
City hall spending $3.7M to help convert core office building into apartments
A second office building in downtown London will be converted into housing thanks to city hall’s incentive dollars, Mayor Josh Morgan says.
London police seek help finding suspect in alleged hate-motivated attack
Police are asking for the publicâs help identifying a suspect in relation to an alleged hate-motivated attack on a Muslim family in a downtown London park.
City politicians unfazed by police board’s $104K budget-pitch spending
A London city council effort to push city-funded agencies to not use taxpayer money for budget pitches has fallen flat. In a 10-5 vote on Tuesday evening, city politicians sitting as the strategic priorities and policy committee endorsed denying the push stemming from the controversy of the London police board spending $104,000 to help sell […]
Muslim family targeted in alleged hate-motivated attack in London park: Group
London’s mayor and a group representing Canadian Muslims are condemning what they say is a hate-motivated attack on a Muslim family
City budget: Londoners’ 2025 property tax pain eased â a little bit
Londoners will face a slightly smaller property tax hike in 2025 than initially expected.
London city hall starts new anti-hate campaign: ‘Action and allyship’
London city hall is rolling out a new public awareness campaign to combat hate, a provincially funded pilot program that could be a model for other communities. Â