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Thames Valley trustees blast Queen’s Park, wrestle with $7.6M budget deficit
Thames Valley District school board trustees on Tuesday night passed a $7.6 budget deficit â chopped down from its original shortfall, $30 million â as some trustees threatened to boycott an upcoming debate. âThere is a presumption that we will have quorum tomorrow evening but there are a number of us who are not available […]
Man, teens accused in separate London homicides appear in court
The three people accused in two unrelated weekend homicides in London made brief court appearances Tuesday and will remain in custody while they secure legal representation.
London cyclist killed in collision en route to coffee meet-up with friend
A cyclist struck and killed by a vehicle last week was on his way to grab a coffee, said the manâs longtime friend who was waiting for him at the shop
New book from Goderich great-grandmother was 50 years in the making
GODERICH – Half a century in the making, Goderich resident Sally Walker’s novel, 101, is based on a time in her life when she found herself overwhelmed in a new teaching job. Walker started the outline for 101 about 50 years ago, wanting to describe what life was like in the 1960s and 1970s for […]
School-aged girls followed, 48-year-old man charged: London police
A London man is in custody and charged with harassment after two school-aged girls were followed, police say.
Olympic berth on the line this weekend for 17-year-old Julia Tunks
Julia Tunks has some added motivation heading into the Canadian track and field championships at Montreal this week.
Union pans board’s plan to cut psychology jobs, hire outside staff
The head of a union representing psychologists with the Thames Valley District school board says she is âdisappointed and angryâ about the boardâs plan to contract private psychologists at double the rate of its own staff
‘Gave people so much’: Teenage London homicide victim mourned
Candles burned Monday at a memorial to a London teenager in the parking lot of a public housing complex where the 18-year-old died after allegedly being stabbed Friday night. People close to Abdul Hashim, known to his friends as âZeko,” remember the Sir Wilfrid Laurier secondary school graduate as a hard-working teen with “a heart […]
14-year-old charged in mass shooting that killed Woodstock man
Toronto police say a 14-year-old boy has been charged with first-degree murder in a shooting that left two men dead and others wounded in a high school parking lot on a weekend in early June. Det. Sgt. Phillip Campbell says the teen is charged with two counts of first-degree murder and seven counts of attempted […]