The London-area health unit at the epicentre of a provincewide measles outbreak is reporting more than 100 new infections in a week for the first time since the outbreak began in October. Southwestern Public Health reported 104 new measles cases in Elgin and Oxford counties, Woodstock and St. Thomas since May 8 on Thursday. The […]

Volkswagen has dodged the tariff and trade dispute between Canada and the U.S. and its manufacturing plant being built in St. Thomas will proceed full speed ahead, the city’s economic development boss says. Electric-vehicle batteries made in St. Thomas will be tariff-free under recent changes to the trade policy announced by the U.S., auto industry […]

The For Our Youth (FOY) club gathered on April 26 for a chilly but productive meeting at one of our favourite locations — the Bruce Botanical Food Gardens (BBFG). We saw some familiar faces at the March Break Ripley and District Horticultural Society meeting, but stormy winter weather prevented us from getting together in February, […]

Sam Routley, Western University Canada’s Liberals have, once again, risen from the dead. Their re-election with Mark Carney at the helm is a remarkable development in Canadian federal politics — the party not only managed to reverse the dire predictions of its demise but also, despite voters expressing a desire for change, retained its control […]