Tag: Local News
PHOTOS: Kidney Walk fundraiser returns to London
The Kidney Walk, a fundraiser for the Kidney Foundation of Canada, was held in London’s Gibbons Park on Sunday. Photos by LFP’s Derek Ruttan: druttan@postmedia.com
Without suburban homeless hubs, ‘nothing is changing’: Politician
One city councillor is urging his colleagues to support a homeless hub pitched for northwest London as battle lines are drawn over the proposed location on Fanshawe Park Road. Ward 13 Coun. David Ferreira, whose ward includes downtown, said council has endorsed a whole-of-community response to London’s homeless crisis and the hub location proposed for […]
Plenty of ‘hesitancy’ over proposed drug-use facility: Woodstock mayor
Woodstock Mayor Jerry Acchione is warning his council colleagues to brace themselves to hear significant concern from citizens at an upcoming public meeting about a proposed supervised drug-use site.
Crime Report: London police seek missing girl
London police search for missing girl London police are searching for a missing 11-year-old girl last seen in the city’s Glen Cairn neighbourhood Saturday evening. Police on Sunday made an appeal to the public for help locating Chrysah Wolfe, 11, of London. Wolfe is described as Indigenous, four-foot-eleven with a slim build, long dark hair […]
Ex-LHSC workers push for retroactive pay after wage freeze struck down
Former staff at the region’s largest hospital are pushing for retroactive pay after Ontario’s wage freezing legislation was found unconstitutional last fall, an entitlement current workers at the hospital already are receiving.