Tag: London District Catholic school board
LIVE: Mother Nature set to pile on with another blast of snow
As if we didn’t have enough snow already, Thursday is expected to bring another wintry wallop starting in Bruce County around Wiarton and moving southeast toward the London area. Follow along below for to-the-minute coverage from our journalists across the region 7:04 a.m. In the Owen Sound area, an estimated one inch of snow fell […]
LIVE: Snowy Southwestern Ontario faces another wintry blast
As if we didn’t have enough snow already, Thursday was bringing another wintry wallop from Bruce County around Owen Sound all the way southeast toward the London area and beyond. Follow along below for to-the-minute coverage from our journalists across the region 11:38 a.m. Officials in Oxford County have announced that libraries in Ingersoll, Tillsonburg, […]
LIVE: Crashes, closures as snow pounds Southwestern Ontario
As if we didn’t have enough snow already, Thursday was bringing another wintry wallop from Bruce County around Owen Sound all the way southeast toward the London area and beyond. Follow along below for to-the-minute coverage from our journalists across the region 2:15 p.m. Trouble on Hwy. 401 east of London: 2:01 p.m. London Public […]
Site for proposed Catholic high school in north London clears hurdle
A plan to demolish a nearly 150-year-old north London home and build a Catholic high school on the site, a top priority for the fast-growing London-area Catholic board, cleared a key hurdle Tuesday. All five members of city council’s planning and environment committee â councillors Steve Lehman, Shawn Lewis, Peter Cuddy, Elizabeth Peloza and Steven […]
Another wintry wallop slams London region as buses nixed, schools closed
With snow flurries continuing in London Tuesday morning, school buses were cancelled and several schools shut down across the city and region. There was a risk of snow squalls in the city and area with five centimetres of snow expected and wind gusting to 20 kilometres/hour near noon, Environment Canada officials warned. The high Tuesday […]
LIVE: School buses cancelled, police issue warning amid blast of snow
Have snow photos? Send them in for possible inclusion in our ongoing storm coverage. Email us at lfp.website@sunmedia.ca The London region faced its first significant snowfall of the season with sweeping snow squalls that cancelled school buses and grounded planes on Monday morning and prompted a warning from provincial police. Environment Canada was calling for […]
Enrolment surge lifts London Catholic board from deficit to $9.5M surplus
The London regionâs Catholic school board posted a $9.5 million surplus last fiscal year, a budget boon triggered by increased enrolment. Â
Education minister scolds school boards for ‘extravagant expenses’
The heads of Ontarioâs 72 school boards were read the riot act about “inappropriateâ spending on expensive trips, provincial officials say
Premier wants audit of Ontario school boards amid slew of travel scandals: MPP
SARNIA â An audit of Ontario school boards has been ordered by Premier Doug Ford following a report the Lambton Kent District school board spent more than $32,000 to send three employees to a conference in Hawaii, the local MPP says. The trip â taken by staff from the Chatham-based board’s Indigenous liaison committee â is one […]
School board travel scandals: Critic blasts ‘never-ending’ spending woes
A raft of out-of-town â even overseas â trips by school board trustees or officials across Southwestern Ontario have rattled taxpayers and sparked deep reviews by Ontario’s education ministry. Two more cases became public in the past two days, and one long-time critic of the provincial education system believes it’s time for drastic changes. “I […]