Tag: Southwestern Ontario
As Canada increases military spending, London-area industry eyes major growth
Canada’s embrace of a greater global military role is a win for industry in Southwestern Ontario that supplies the national defence sector. London and region boasts about 20 businesses employing roughly 4,000 workers in military-related industries and that number is rising, according to figures from the London Economic Development Corp (LEDC). NP Aerospace, a global […]
Local farmer’s camera skills carry him to Artemis II launch: ‘Mind-blowing’
As Ingersoll native Jeremy Hansen rocketed into space, one farmer from another Southwestern Ontario town was there to capture it all. Artemis II marks the first crewed flight around the moon in more than 50 years, with Hansen making history on the 10-day journey as the first non-American to go to deep space. And Wednesday’s […]
Lower-speed limit signs going up soon near site of fatal crash: Warden
Signs showing a reduced speed limit will go up within the next three weeks on a stretch of a Southwestern Ontario road where three people were killed in a crash, the county warden says. Three people in travelling in an SUV were killed and two others critically injured when the vehicle collided with a transport […]
Southwestern Ontario construction firm fined $60K after worker’s fatal fall
A Southwestern Ontario construction company has been fined $60,000 after one of their workers fell to their death while building a barn in 2023, provincial officials say. Following a guilty plea in provincial offences court in Woodstock, Hendrik Jan Van Ginkel Construction, located at 324943 Norwich Rd. in Norwich Township in Oxford County, was convicted […]
Astronaut Jeremy Hansen’s message to Canada as Artemis II launched
Before Wednesday’s historic launch of the Artemis II, the Canadian Space Agency broadcast a recorded message from Jeremy Hansen, the Southwestern Ontario astronaut who is a member of the crew on the 10-day mission around the moon. Here’s what the 50-year-old Ingersoll native said in comments that mixed both French and English. “What an honour […]