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Soldiers simulate live combat at Meaford base in largest army reserve training exercise since 2018
The largest simulated war-fighting army reservist exercise since 2018 is currently ongoing at the 4th Canadian Division Training Centre in Meaford. It’s there that over 200 army vehicles and more than 750 army reservists from across the province are taking part in real-life combat training as part of Arrowhead Guardian 23, designed to enhance combat […]
PHOTOS: Inside Amazon’s new fulfilment centre
Amazon’s new robotic fulfilment centre, named YXU1 after the code name for London International Airport, opens Oct. 1. The 186,000-square-metre (two-million-square-foot) facility in Southwold Township will employ more than 1,000 workers who will pick, pack and ship up to 750,000 items a day with the help of robotics technology. Free Press photographer Derek Ruttan toured […]
Probe of Hells Angels member leads to charges against pair: OPP
Members of the OPP’s biker enforcement unit seized five rifles and 3,000 rounds of ammunition and arrested two people in a search of home northeast of Chatham, OPP say.
Q+A: London ER doc’s message to municipal leaders
Andrew Park said improving the province’s health care system needs to begin by recruiting and training more doctors while improving working conditions for the ones already seeing patients.
City politicians recently approved the demolition of the former Old East bar at 763-769 Dundas St., for a 200-unit apartment tower for immigrants to London.
A shuttered bar in east London may fall, so affordable housing for newcomers to London may rise.