Tag: july
Honouring our Local Veterans ceremony brings family together
West Coast artist Helen Downing-Hunter was just a newborn when the RAF Lancaster her father James Downing was piloting crashed in July 1944 while conducting nighttime air operations against Stuttgart, Germany, during the Second World War. But now, some 80 years later, it is through her late father’s war heritage that she has reconnected with family in Owen […]
Baranyai: Indigenous foster care urgent priority
Itâs a shattering indictment: 16 years after then-prime minister Stephen Harper formally apologized for Canadaâs residential school system â time enough for a generation to reach driving age â there are more Indigenous children and youth in foster care than there were in residential schools at any given time.
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
Woman, 54, becomes fourth person charged in Londoner’s slaying
A fourth person has been charged in connection with the summertime slaying of a London man at a west-end apartment building, police said on Friday. London police say Kerry Ann Marie Bailey, 54, is charged with accessory after the fact to murder in the slaying of 48-year-old Darko Lukic, who died after being found critically […]
Witness reflects on not calling 911 after teen’s fatal shooting at London bush party
A woman who was involved in a romantic relationship with a London man accused of shooting a teenager at a bush party says she didnât contact police to tell them what she saw because she was loyal to “the wrong people.” Kaiah Edmonds, 21, took the stand for a second day Friday at the trial […]