Tag: Real Estate
Unemployment rate in region that includes Grey-Bruce region ticks up
Despite a rise in the unemployment rate in the region that includes Grey and Bruce counties, it still came in as the lowest in Ontario last month. The Four County Labour Market Planning Board reported last week that the unemployment rate for the Stratford-Bruce Peninsula region increased by 0.4 percentage points in December to 3.6 […]
How Southwestern Ontario is losing its winter (and why that should worry you)
Parts of Southwestern Ontario are losing more than two weeks of sub-zero days each winter due to climate change, a new report says. In London and Middlesex County, there are an average of nine additional above-freezing days each December to February, a trend that may lead to more ice storms and flooding, one renowned climate […]
City-owned housing agency fights $3,500 ruling in favour of tenant
A London woman who awoke with a cockroach embedded in her ear and won a provincial tribunal hearing over that nightmare is facing a repeat battle.
Probe into Amazon worker’s death finished – but widow still in dark
Ontario’s Labour Ministry has completed its probe into the death one year ago of an Amazon employee at its London-area mega-plant – but his widow must file a a freedom-of-information (FOI) request to get the final report that includes autopsy results. It’s a “frustrating” process that puts more stress on grieving families, said Sudbury NDP […]
Children in need may face compromised care and long waits in clinics and hospital emergency departments, as Children’s Aid Society of London and Middlesex is shutting down its internal medical clinic,
Children in care may face compromised health care and longer waits, as Children’s Aid Society closes its medical clinic.
City hall’s transportation blueprint pays little mind to traffic calming
Reporter Jack Moulton dives into how traffic-calming is being included in the city’s new transportation master plan.
Bad to worse: Downtown London office vacancy rate projected to hit 33%
Offices in downtown London will continue to empty out this year, keeping the city’s core vacancy rate among the highest in the country, a new report says.
London rents drop 4% in 2024, first annual decline since 2020
Rents in London dropped for the third straight month in December, ending 2024 lower than they started the year
Accused’s police statement played at trial: ‘I wasn’t trying to hurt her’
Barbara Cabala said she loved her mother, but she never believed her mother loved her. “I was supposed to be perfect and I wasn’t,” Cabala told London police Det. Const. Blair Gould during her first statement to the police after her mother Elzbieta, 59, died at her Wilkins Avenue townhouse. “She made me feel it, […]
Bush party murderer returns to court, pleads guilty to gun charge
Convicted murderer Carlos Guerra Guerra was back in court Monday, this time with a single guilty plea.