The lure of landing new jobs tied to Volkswagen’s $7-billion EV battery plant is driving a move by city councillors to seek the province’s help in fast-tracking a proposed industrial development south of Highway 401. City council’s planning and environment committee voted unanimously Wednesday for the city to request a minister’s zoning order (MZO) to […]
Three days of advance polling in Ontario’s Feb. 27 election open Thursday. Here’s all you need to know if you want to cast your ballot ahead of time. Jonathan Juha reports. THE BIG PICTURE With one week to go in Ontario’s snap election, its first mid-winter vote in 44 years and the first early election […]
Barriers to trading goods between provinces could be costing the wider London area as much as $1.4 billion in lost production a year, a national economist says.
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 […]
Business, and patriotism, is booming for one London flag store ahead of the anniversary of Canada's red-and-white, but also amid a trade row with the United States.
Attacks on education funding and delivery have provoked waves of job action, and destabilized the college system built by his own party.
As Donald Trump calls into question Canada's legitimacy, a veteran with a personal connection to Canada's flag reflects on its 60th birthday
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 […]
One of two Black Hawk helicopters the federal government chartered as part of a $1.3-billion plan to boost security at the Canada-U.S. border landed at London International Airport on Tuesday, Feb. 11. A demonstration hosted by the RCMP was the first since the federal government announced in December it was adding the helicopters to its […]