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Cornies: Canada Day, a mile-marker on our country’s road to diversity
Public art projects highlighting Indigenous themes and artists are one way to move toward greater commitment.
Q+A: Local Order of Canada inductees Joe Miskokomon, Susie Matthias
The Order of Canada has been bestowed on two people in the region, one for her dedication to the arts and the other for his lifetime of work with Indigenous people.
London mouth artist named to Order of Canada
Renowned London mouth artist Theresa Helen (Susie) Matthias was named to the Order of Canada on Thursday, among the federal government’s highest honours.
Education Ministry fires back at Thames Valley trustees in budget battle
Ontarioâs Ministry of Education disputes allegations it has underfunded the regionâs largest school board by $30 million after trustees approved a controversial budget with a $7.6-million deficit.
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 […]
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 […]