The Wiarton Village Fair has been called off for 2023. The Rotary Club of Wiarton, which puts on the annual event, made the announcement in a news release issued late Thursday afternoon. “After 83 very successful years of providing a Village Fair on the August long weekend, we must announce that it will not happen […]
Canadian ceramic artist Susan Day is making a ceramic mosaic for Carepoint Consumption and Treatment Service, the new supervised drug use site on York Street that opened late last month. Day held a public workshop at her London studio on Thursday at which participants helped make some of the 12,000 ceramic tiles for the mosaic […]
Tenants at an east-London apartment building managed by Old Oak properties staged a protest Thursday over what they described as unlivable conditions the company is refusing the address.
Ontario’s Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy tabled a whopping $204.7 billion post-pandemic spending plan on Thursday.
Strong wind gusts are expected to swoop in on Saturday, but some areas of southwestern Ontario could also see periods of freezing rain.
The rising cost for the Rockwood Terrace redevelopment in Durham has Grey County scaling back the project to focus on the long-term care home. At its meeting on Thursday, Grey County council passed a motion calling for staff to communicate with the development managers Colliers Peoject Leaders that the total project budget be amend to […]
More than two dozen police officers worked on a special task force created last year to solve the death of a London nurse gunned down in her driveway, the city’s deputy police chief says.
A husband and wife horse training duo from Southampton are hoping their animal act creates a buzz on the second season of Canada’s Got Talent. Jason and Bronwyn Irwin are one of 82 acts trying to earn the respect and admiration of the popular talent show’s panel of celebrity judges as well as its widespread […]
Ontario plans to start posting budget surpluses in a year, leaning heavily on booming revenues to outweigh increased spending on health care – which includes boosts to hospitals, home care and the medical workforce. Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy said his nearly $205-billion plan released Thursday shows that the province can spend responsibly. “We are showing […]
A London man wanted by police in a weapons investigation has turned himself into police.
Science Says What? is a monthly column written by Great Lakes now contributor Sharon Oosthoek exploring what science can tell us about what’s happening beneath and above the waves of our beloved Great Lakes and their watershed.
As spring comes to Saginaw Bay, a group of elementary school students are preparing to play an important role in a long-term scientific study.
A $1-million donation from London philanthropists Andy and Helen Spriet will help a London researcher developing an unconventional cancer treatment that uses human feces. The couple’s donation to the London Health Sciences Foundation will help establish an immuno-oncology research program at LHSC’s London Regional Cancer Program. The research is led by Dr. Saman Maleki, a […]
