Trade barriers: Red tape between provinces costing London area $1.4B

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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.
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Child witness describes ‘bad stuff’ made at alleged luxury home drug lab

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It was a dark-coloured sticky substance that was illegal. “I didn’t know the name of the stuff he was making,” the young school-age child testified at a drug-lab trial. “I knew it was the weed and the syrup and the gummies… and the cigars made out of weed.” It was remarkable testimony from a school-age […]
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What if they held an Ontario election and nobody noticed?

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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 […]
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An unusually snowy winter for London, and pure joy at Boler Mountain

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It’s been a banner season for Boler Mountain. The London ski hill opened on Dec. 14, a week ahead of schedule, and has been packed ever since, thanks to an unseasonably snowy winter. “Mother Nature has been very kind this year,” said Greg Strauss, a member of Boler’s management team. “It’s been a fantastic season.” […]
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Ontario election: Group urges voters to turn homeless crisis into key issue

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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 […]
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Dyer: Donald Trump turning the world away from peace

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The bedrock on which the entire post-1945 system was built is the inviolability of borders.
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It’s a Family Day weekend full of snow as storm hits London, region

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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 […]
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Pearson: Elected officials face existential struggle

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When politicians become slaves to their party and can no longer collaborate with those of other views, they become redundant to citizens
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Every day is Flag Day: Maple Leaf a hot commodity as trade war looms

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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.
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Baranyai: Ford’s impact on education defiles Davis’s legacy

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Attacks on education funding and delivery have provoked waves of job action, and destabilized the college system built by his own party.
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LIVE: Ontario provincial election leaders’ debate to take place in North Bay

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North Bay will host Doug Ford, Bonnie Crombie, Mike Schreiner and Marit Stiles in a leader's debate Friday. Watch for our live coverage.
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Stock: A veteran’s letter to Canada’s flag on its 60th birthday

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As Donald Trump calls into question Canada's legitimacy, a veteran with a personal connection to Canada's flag reflects on its 60th birthday
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