Tag: Local News
ER doctors honour old hospital’s legacy with $100K affordable housing gift
Looking to honour the legacy of emergency medicine in London, as well as the patients they serve, emergency room doctors are donating $100,000 to a supportive housing initiative in the city. Indwell received the funding from the 75-member group London Emergency Medicine Associates, made up of ER doctors, for the housing agency to build deeply […]
Acceptance letters should set tone for safe campus at Western: committee
A group formed to tackle sexual violence and boost student safety on Western University’s campus has issued four early recommendations ahead of its final report expected this spring.
Provincial planning rules could make city’s housing affordability worse: consultant
A long-awaited tool to require affordable housing in new developments is getting a cold reception from London’s building industry and a consultant hired to study the practice, at least under existing rules. City politicians voted Monday to recommend seeking special permission from Queen’s Park to use inclusionary zoning – requiring new residential buildings to set […]
Questions swirl in fallout of criminal charges against Woodstock mayor
Woodstock Mayor Trevor Birtch still wasn’t talking, but others around him were Monday — barely — as questions about his immediate political future came into sharper focus amid criminal charges, including sexual assault, laid against him. Acting Mayor Connie Lauder lent no certainty to what might happen next, saying only that it’s up to Birtch […]
Ambassador Bridge to U.S. reopened after protester blockade
WINDSOR – Protesters choked off access to the Ambassador Bridge Monday, wreaking havoc at the border and leaving countless travellers stranded in gridlock, as the self-proclaimed freedom fighters waved flags and played hockey in the middle of a nearby road.