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The local economy lost more than 3,000 jobs in March, pushing the London area’s unemployment rate to 9.1 per cent, the highest in Canada, new figures show. March’s jobless rate marks the eight straight month the local unemployment figure has been rising, Statistics Canada reported Friday. The rate was 8.8



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Prime Minister Mark Carney on Wednesday told Southwestern Ontario astronaut Jeremy Hansen that “Canadians couldn’t be more proud of you personally” as Artemis II’s historic mission to the moon enters its final days. Hansen – born in London and raised in Ailsa Craig and Ingersoll – along with NASA astronauts



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A person has been taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries after a fire at a high school in Wingham on Tuesday morning, Ontario Provincial Police say.



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Donald Trump is pretty happy with Canada, at least when it comes to space exploration. Southwestern Ontario astronaut Jeremy Hansen – born in London, raised in Ailsa Craig and Ingersoll – was in contact with the U.S. president during the Artemis II mission on Monday evening after Hansen and his



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Health experts are closely monitoring a new variant of COVID-19, roughly six years after the highly infectious disease ground the world to a halt in March 2020. Here are some things to know about the new strain, dubbed Cicada. What is the new variant? The new COVID-19 variant is called



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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