Ontarians will be headed to the polls next week, and you’d be forgiven for not noticing. Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford, seeking a third straight majority mandate, triggered a snap election more than a year before the scheduled vote, plunging Ontario into a subdued campaign hampered by blizzard conditions and drowned out by U.S. President […]





A grassroots group of municipal politicians is urging voters to make homelessness a provincial election issue, with the equivalent of a city larger than Sarnia living on the street across Ontario.  Calling the encampments that have cropped up in municipalities big and small in recent years a “human rights crisis,” the Ontario Coalition for the […]





London is in the path of a Family Day weekend winter storm that was expected to drop as much as 30 centimetres of snow on the region, Environment Canada says. The national weather agency issued a winter storm warning for London and much of Southwestern Ontario that started Saturday morning and was expected to last […]





School buses were cancelled for both major London-area school boards and multiple morning crashes were reported on both Highways 401 and 402 Thursday after an overnight snowstorm swept across the region. Shortly before 6 a.m. Thursday, officials announced on social media that all school vehicles for both the Thames Valley District school board and London […]





London city councillors have given their thumbs-up to the mayor’s effort to try to protect and promote local businesses amid tariff threats from the United States. City council voted unanimously Tuesday to support a motion to have the city review its procurement practices to ensure the city is choosing Canadian companies for goods, services and […]