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• Justin Trudeau does a little classroom campaigning during London visit
  Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau made a stop in London Monday as part a three-city Southwestern Ontario blitz on the campaign trail. In London, Trudeau met with pupils, teachers and staff at Blessed Sacrament Catholic elementary school, where he read to grade 1 and 2 children. The book? Why I Love Canada by Exeter illustrator Daniel […]
• Council 'retreats to command and control' on social housing
  The boards of two housing agencies in London are likely out the door, soon to be replaced by a single city hall staffer, despite concerns from politicians that the move won’t get to the heart of the housing crisis. It’s what Coun. Stephen Turner described as the “nuclear optionâ€� on the path to try to […]
• Letters: Sept. 17
  Enforce laws What gives in this city? Stop signs appear to be optional. Council talks green, but city buses spew toxic, disgusting, black smoke; so do cement trucks. I know it is toxic, because if my windows are open or my car is not on circulate, I start coughing and wheezing. People in the next […]
• U.S. GM strike threatens Southwestern Ontario auto industry
  The strike by General Motors workers in the U.S. will ripple throughout Southwestern Ontario, and plants may already be cutting production and workers, a Canadian auto industry analyst says. The auto industries of Ontario and the U.S. are closely intertwined, with automakers here reliant on parts from south of the border and Ontario auto parts […]

Mitchell

• Cade’s Cause to help Mitchell toddler’s family
  Cade Eickmeyer is 27-months-old. He’s had 22 epileptic seizures. His last one lasted one hour and no one even knew it. The Mitchell toddler, the son of Dan and Stacey Eickmeyer, has a severe epilepsy gene mutation called SCN1a. His parents found out that diagnosis in April after waiting six months for the result of […]
• Family fears dog Boots is stolen
  A family of six east of Mitchell is devastated that their nine-month-old dog, Boots, is missing. They fear he has been stolen from their family farm last Monday afternoon, Sept. 9, the Perth County OPP reported. On Sept. 11, members of the West Perth OPP responded to the report of a theft of a shepherd/border […]
• West Perth approves phase-in for development charges
  Development charges for West Perth will be phased-in for all types of development, council decided at their Sept. 3 meeting. By doing so, though, they admit “money will be left on the table” but are clearly willing to forego that so development can hopefully continue in earnest. Council has been dealing with the issue since […]
• Shakespeare Falcons win fourth SPMFL title
  No team in the illustrious 45-plus year history of the South Perth Men’s Fastball League (SPMFL) has ever won the ‘A’ championship three straight seasons. The Shakespeare Falcons won their fourth championship, and their first in five years, this past weekend in the five-team playoff tournament in Mitchell, defeating the regular season champion Elmira Expos […]

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