Food

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, […]

C-a-n-a-d-a. In Canada, we like to drink them all.

One of my favourite dishes when I was first introduced to Chinese food was wonton soup — delicious pork wontons floating in a light broth along with snow peas and thin slices of barbecue pork. We would order it every time we went to our favourite Chinese restaurant. In later years, I would learn how […]

Canada was growing, following the Second World War. It was strong and full of hope.

Mariners have a busy schedule to keep commerce flowing to the industrial and manufacturing centers in the region, but that doesn’t stop them from celebrating with food and festivities on […]

A beloved restaurant in southwest London’s Byron area is closing due to a “perfect storm” of U.S. tariffs and a need to downsize, its owner says. The upscale Italian eatery, Bocconcini, located at Boler Road and Southdale Road West, will be serving its last customers on April 27 after six years in business. “I’m trying […]

There is healing in coaxing food from the earth, unparalleled by any meditation app or "news holiday" one might turn to for a moment's peace

Canadians are showing a strong desire to support local industries, protect jobs and build national self-sufficiency in face of U.S. threat

Could our present pains be the birth pangs of a new life for this country? We're about to find out.

From tariffs to taxes to defunding CBC and abortion rights, approximately 200 people heard from Huron-Bruce candidates at a meeting April 10 in Port Elgin.

U.S.-Canada trade tensions led to a steep drop in Canadians heading south last month – a trend that, if it continues, could help boost the London region’s tourism sector, an industry watcher says. Some 1.5 million Canadians made return trips to the U.S. by car in March, a 31.9 per cent drop from the same […]