Fanshawe College is slashing 400 full-time employees positions – 35 per cent of its workforce – in the wake of a projected cumulative deficit of $95 million by March 2027.
The Ontario government's strong mayor powers, now a couple years old, have been expanded to even more municipalities and some are not happy about it.
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, […]
Plans for this year’s Hawks’ Nest competition are ramping up with the announcement of the event’s first angel investor. Hosted by the Saugeen Economic Development Corporation and Bruce Community Futures Development Corporation, Hawks’ Nest is a Dragons Den-inspired competition where new and existing businesses and entrepreneurs from Grey, Bruce, Wellington North, Minto and the City […]
A new fishing season started this month, and that means Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources has plans for stocking sport fish in the state’s waters. Read the full story by […]
Officials with the London region’s largest school board say they have no plans to send any more students on class trips to the United States amid uncertainty at the border since President Donald Trump’s re-election. While student treks to America have been common for decades, the Thames Valley District school board “isn’t planning any future […]
Victory Cruise Lines is relaunching in April with Great Lakes and Canada cruises. Those include All 5 Great Lakes cruises, which visit Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario and Superior, sailing from […]
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 […]
Plans to create a high school tackle football team in Kincardine are officially moving forward following a large donation from the local legion. “This funding gets us to our goal. We can now purchase — and are in the process of doing so — the remainder of the equipment we need for the players, training […]
Thames Valley schools must have a plan in case students on 13 school trips to the U.S. are turned back at the border, officials say