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New large-animal vet receives Grey Bruce Farmers’ Week Prize
Recent Ontario Veterinary College graduate Dr. Jacky Normandeau received this year’s $1,000 Grey Bruce Farmers’ Week Prize. Normandeau grew up outside the rural town of Uxbridge. Despite growing up in a town, she has plenty of farm experience. In high school, she worked on a hobby farm doing the daily chores and at a local […]
Is it a bullying tactic ahead of farmland expropriation to create 770-acre site?
Objectors say cornfield destruction makes no sense as Waterloo Region amasses farmlands
When low-income Londoners die, who pays for the funeral?
A London funeral director is calling out city hall for not keeping up with the rising costs of services for people who died without the money to pay for one themselves â a segment of the industry he says has grown sharply. Joe O’Neil, owner of a William Street funeral home, says the amount city […]
As interest rates rise, small-time landlords look to sell off homes
Higher interest rates that have kept first-time homebuyers from entering the local housing market have now started to force mom-and-pop investors in London to sell their properties as their mortgage costs go up.
Letters to the Editor: August 14, 2024
No greenhouses on Talbot Trail