One of the leading figures in London’s art community has died. Abstract landscape artist Eric (Ricky) Atkinson, the founding dean of Fanshawe College’s fine art program, died Thursday. He was 93, just days short of his 94th birthday on July 23. The British-born Atkinson was the head of the Leeds School of Art when he […]
Cargill has been fined $100,000 for breaching workplace-safety rules after a worker was critically injured by a piece of machinery at its London facility. The incident took place at the company’s poultry processing plant at 10 Cuddy Blvd. on Oct. 26, 2020, the Ministry of Labour, Immigration Training and Skills Development said Monday. Cargill pleaded […]
As Londoners brace for another wallop of hot, steamy weather, the Thames River and its tributaries are starting to show signs of a lack of rainfall. The high on Tuesday and Wednesday is expected to climb to 31 C with the humidity on Tuesday making it fell like 39 C, the Middlesex-London Health Unit said […]
The Thames Valley District school board hopes to prevent any “summer slide” in young children’s speech and language skills by making learning fun at summer camps, an official says. Demand has grown for the camps in London and Oxford and Elgin counties, for pupils who need extra help with language or literacy, possibly due in […]
A former Uber driver, charged after teenagers reported a ride-share driver offered them money for sex during and after a ride, faces a new count, London police say. Bradley William Turner, 55, who was charged this month with seven counts, including soliciting sexual services from people under 18 and inviting people under 16 to sexual […]
The widow of an alleged warlord says she wakes up in a state of panic and soaked with sweat every day before dawn at the same time four armed men burst into her London home two years ago and fatally shot her husband.
Disruptions, harassment and even violent interjections at Pride festivities are on the rise as in-person events return after years of pandemic cancellations, and Londoners are not alone in fearing future confrontations, an expert on hate said. London’s police chief also spoke out Monday to reassure residents of their safety at the upcoming city-wide celebrations and […]
The federal government has outlined two options to help cut emissions from the oil and gas sector by about 40% by the end of this decade.
OPP members have recovered the body of the swimmer reported missing in Guelph Lake on July 17, 2022.
Ontario’s New Democrats will elect a new permanent leader the first week of March, 2023.
Some may feel like the temperatures outside are a little extra uncomfortable throughout the first half of the week.
A Waterloo woman is out nearly $5,000 after a new debit card was issued in St. Thomas and used to withdraw cash from her accounts. The card was used to access three accounts and $10,000 was transferred between them, St. Thomas police said. Two withdrawals were made at an Aylmer bank, first $3,000 and then […]
