Tag: Local News
Police close westbound Hwy. 402 as anti-restrictions convoy hits Sarnia
PLYMPTON-WYOMING – Erin Barry has been all over the province in recent days to participate in the various convoys protesting COVID-19 restrictions. The Wyoming resident made the 650-plus-kilometre drive to Ottawa and stayed there overnight Thursday, sleeping in her car parked next to rows of commercial trucks. “Gorgeous environment,” she said Sunday amid the latest […]
‘Solid’ research shows school closings hurt small communities: advocate
New research supports calls to consider local economic and other impacts before small community schools are shut down, says a group dedicated to saving Southwestern Ontario rural schools.
City councillors should get fixed annual pay increases: task force
An outside committee reviewing pay for London city councillors will suggest predictable, predetermined annual raises in a bid to end yearly squabbling.
Dangerous new opioid mixes surfacing, prompting push for safer supply
“We need to stop criminalizing it and instead offer people the support that they need.”
Police shutter streets as anti-restrictions protesters roll through London
Police temporarily closed roads across London Saturday afternoon as an anti-restrictions convoy rolled through some of the city’s main areas. Convoy participants filled the parking lot outside a shopping centre at Wellington Road South and Roxburgh Road, just south of Highway 401, around 2 p.m. Many honked their horns, waved Canadian flags and had anti-vaccine […]