Bus passes: London seniors sound conciliatory note on transit
An advocacy group for London seniors won’t be making a fuss about missing the bus pass.
Email rrichmond@postmedia.com or twitter @RandyRatLFPress
An advocacy group for London seniors won’t be making a fuss about missing the bus pass.
In a year-end interview with The London Free Press, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne discussed the problems in the province’s corrections and mental health systems. This newspaper has spent several years exposing problems in these related systems and published a series exploring the issues in the fall, called Indiscernible. Here’s a partial transcrip
Ordinary people have done so much to help a family devastated by a fire in Oneida that supporters are asking people to hold off donating more clothing.
A provincial government slammed for moving too slowly on reforms to corrections may have moved too quickly on one, critics say.
London’s entrenched crystal meth crisis has prompted the city’s homeless coalition to launch a campaign next year educating the public, agencies and the government about the devastating drug.
It’s not just bad housing that’s killing Canada’s indigenous people, but also inadequate fire protection, unsafe heating and overcrowding, the NDP’s aboriginal affairs critic charges.
A Western University researcher and a London advocate for disabled people are among 26 people named to the Order of Ontario, the highest honour awarded by the province.
Their goal: nothing less than cracking the “porn genome.”
The province will spend $33 million to improve mental health care in its jails, an issue highlighted recently by a landmark London class-action lawsuit and extensive Free Press coverage.
The London theatre manager at the centre of a controversy over comments about a proposed domestic violence bill said she’s only trying to expose the potential weaknesses that would leave many victims in the cold.
A London theatre company has apologized after an employee suggested victims of domestic violence were to blame for making bad choices and had no more right to time off than people with hangnails.
Dundas Street would be divided into three “character areas” connecting five “theming blocks” in a roughly $18- million transformation of the road into a gathering place downtown.
Londoners drinking themselves to death with mouthwash, cleaners, aftershave and solvents will have to keep waiting for the help proven to keep them alive, or at least die with dignity.
Fewer politicians, bigger paycheques.
The lawyer for the family of a London- area man whose downfall highlighted the problems plaguing Ontario’s court system is giving cautious approval to sweeping reforms vowed by the province.
Like a son or daughter of marrying age, London Hydro has come back to its parents with another potential suitor in hand.
Ontario Ombudsman Paul Dube is adding his voice to the growing questions about segregation in the province’s jails, launching a probe into the controversial practice.
The woman behind the door in the London group home where a person was stabbed said she couldn’t leave her bed because someone stole her crutches.
An investigation into the shooting death of terrorist Aaron Driver answers none of the questions about police actions that put a cab driver in danger, the cabbie’s lawyer said Wednesday.