A health unit near London at the epicentre of a provincewide measles outbreak continues to see an increase in cases of the highly infectious disease. Here is the latest on the outbreak that has spread throughout Southwestern Ontario, including Middlesex-London. THE EPICENTRE Measles cases continue to climb in Oxford and Elgin counties that accounted for […]

A measles outbreak that has infected scores of unvaccinated children in Southwestern Ontario reportedly had its start at a Mennonite religious gathering in New Brunswick last year. In a March 7 letter to Ontario’s health units, the province’s chief medical officer of  health, Dr. Kieran Moore, said there was “an exposure at a large gathering […]

An Ontario ice cream manufacturer is freezing its prices, a response to the U.S. trade war it says is the greatest threat to Canada’s sovereignty since the Second World War.  Chapman’s Ice Cream, the largest independent ice cream manufacturer in the country, is vowing not to increase prices for customers for the remainder of 2025 as U.S. […]

It’s been five years since COVID-19 arrived in the London area in March 2020. We look back at LFP images from those first few months, when everything closed down due to the coronavirus: mhensen@postmedia.com druttan@postmedia.com