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 […]

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 […]

Attacks on education funding and delivery have provoked waves of job action, and destabilized the college system built by his own party.

(By Pauline Kerr) Despite the talk about the wonderful history of friendship between Canada and the United States, most of us in this country would be hesitant to sing an … Continue reading No more affectionate ‘Irish Eyes’ duets

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(By Liz Small) Did you know that the OPP conducts patrols by snowmobile and off-road vehicle in Ontario, in addition to patrolling the roads and waterways? To read the entire … Continue reading Snowmobile safety

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London city councillors have given their thumbs-up to the mayor’s effort to try to protect and promote local businesses amid tariff threats from the United States. City council voted unanimously Tuesday to support a motion to have the city review its procurement practices to ensure the city is choosing Canadian companies for goods, services and […]

One of two Black Hawk helicopters the federal government chartered as part of a $1.3-billion plan to boost security at the Canada-U.S. border landed at London International Airport on Tuesday, Feb. 11. A demonstration hosted by the RCMP was the first since the federal government announced in December it was adding the helicopters to its […]

From Windsor to Waterloo region, four area cities rank among those in Canada that would be hardest-hit by U.S. tariffs, a new report shows.