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2025 city budget: Politicians OK $300K to fund downtown clean-up efforts
Downtown London’s business district will get some extra money for street cleaning and graffiti removal, but not for property damage or enhancing security
Great Lakes hold clues to climate change. Send in the robots, feds say
As climate change increasingly shapes the Great Lakes regionâs ecology and economy, scientists plan to use underwater robots to gather previously inaccessible data they say will help communities adapt….
Congressional leaders push to stop Great Lakes basin nuclear waste plan
A bipartisan coalition of Congressional leaders want the U.S. Government to formally oppose a Canadian plan to bury 50,000 tons of high-level nuclear waste hundreds of feet underneath the Great […]
NOAA to study Great Lakes climate change with underwater robots
As climate change increasingly shapes the Great Lakes region’s ecology and economy, scientists plan to use underwater robots to gather previously inaccessible data they say will help communities adapt. Read […]
Rural residents fight to save late neighbour’s home amid redevelopment plan
Dutton Dunwich residents are concerned that a beloved old homeâs new owner may demolish it to develop a 16-unit apartment complex there
Ottawa offers up second downtown London office building for housing
Ottawa aims to shrink its downtown London presence even more as it seeks housing proposals for a second office building, across the street from the first.
Plan to move students scrapped as enrolment holds steady downtown
The regionâs largest school board is walking back a plan to relocate more than 100 Old North pupils after predictions of a spike in the number of students downtown failed to materialize.
Local workload forcing Brightshores to curtail cancer services
About 20 cancer patients per month will have to leave Grey-Bruce for care until a new oncologist can be found, Brightshores Health System vice-president Beth Morris said Wednesday. That’s the estimated number of patients affected by the decision to relieve the workload of Brightshores’ oncologists by sending some new cancer patients to other hospitals, which […]
Bluewater school board leadership to remain the same for 2025
The Bluewater District School Board leadership will be unchanged for 2025. In its annual elections on Tuesday, the board voted to appoint Jane Thomson as chair for a fifth consecutive one-year term. Jan Johnstone was acclaimed to the vice-chair’s position and will also serve in that role for a fifth consecutive one-year term. “I look […]
Touchdown! Red-hot Detroit Lions plan watch party in downtown London
The NFL’s No. 1 team is looking for some London love. In what may be a local first, the red-hot Detroit Lions have announced a watch party for one of their upcoming games â Dec. 22 against Chicago, with fans invited to view it downtown on the big screens inside Canada Life Place. “The Lions […]