$7B EV battery plant looms large in south London industrial project

The London Free Press
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 […]
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Ontario election: Five things to know about early voting

The London Free Press
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 […]
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Baranyai: Ford’s impact on education defiles Davis’s legacy

The London Free Press
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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NWMO closing Teeswater office, to dispose of DGR site lands

The Lucknow Sentinel

The Nuclear Waste Management Organization’s offices in Teeswater will close to the public on Friday and the organization plans to dispose of the lands it had secured for a potential underground used nuclear fuel vault in South Bruce.  The more than 1,800 acres of land the organization had secured in South Bruce through a series […]

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Ontario election: One fresh tariff threat, one big deadline

The London Free Press
With its election almost at the half-way mark, a new threat from Donald Trump hangs over the Ontario campaign Monday.
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Prime minister hopeful Mark Carney visits London, praises Trudeau’s tariff poise

The London Free Press
Mark Carney says he’s ready to stand up for Canada. The federal Liberal leadership hopeful made a stop in downtown London on Tuesday night to speak to supporters at Joe Kool’s. “This is a critical moment in our country’s history and I think we all sense it,” Carney said. It’s the second such moment in […]
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Iconic Lake Michigan lighthouse announces extended hours, five bus days for 2025

Great Lakes Commission

The Sable Point Lighthouse Keepers Association announced that Big Sable Point Lighthouse in Hamlin Township, Michigan, is tentatively scheduled to open on July 1. The iconic Lake Michigan lighthouse had […]

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We asked you: How about those $200 Ontario cheques in the mail?

The London Free Press
Amid a snap election, plenty of Londoners we sampled appear skeptical of Ontario's $3-billion mass mail-out of money to virtually everyone.
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Ontario election: What you need to know to vote

The London Free Press
Ontario's snap winter election is sending voters to the polls Feb. 27, 15 months earlier than the previously scheduled general election. Here's the 101 on voting essentials. 
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Ontario’s homeless population, in homeless encampments, is likely growing

The Lucknow Sentinel

The Association of Municipalities of Ontario calculated there were at least 1,400 homeless encampments in the province in 2023

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The American parent of London’s Accuride Canada plant squeezed money out of the local manufacturer and “drove it into the ground,” throwing more than 200 people out of work, the union representing its

The London Free Press
The American parent of London’s Accuride Canada plant squeezed money out of the local manufacturer and “drove it into the ground,” throwing more than 200 people out of work, the union representing its workers charges. Unifor Local 27 is questioning the economics of the looming closing of Accuride Canada. The London plant on Firestone Boulevard […]
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Dyer: Netanyahu’s political life still short, despite Trump

The London Free Press
The war spared Netanyahu from an inquiry into his failure to prevent the Hamas attack in October 2023, and it stalled his corruption trial.
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