1+ hour, 39+ min ago  (656+ words) London's child welfare agency will chop $2. 5 million in costs, including 23 workers who were laid off, but still has a nearly $5-million deficit, workers have been told. In a recent meeting described by staff as volatile and "emotional," workers angered by…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago  (446+ words) Two Western siblings credit their mother's cancer battle and liver transplant for inspiring careers in health care and advocacy. After their mother's cancer diagnosis and liver transplant, two siblings graduating at the same time from Western University say they're heading…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (25+ words) London Free Press Apprentices from LIUNA Local 1059 demonstrated surveying, pipe work and asbestos abatement equipment....

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (484+ words) There are better sources of parenting advice than tech billionaires, but we should definitely pay heed to how few of them let their children use their products. Steve Jobs famously would not let his own kids have tablets. You Tube…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (732+ words) Hundreds of students protested changes to student aid outside Queen's Park. TORONTO " Ontario's Progressive Conservative government spent Tuesday defending changes to the Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP), as hundreds of students protested outside Queen's Park and raised the possibility of…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (387+ words) Anushka Bist was feeling pretty low after learning she had just missed out on a four-year $96, 000 scholarship. Then came a pleasant surprise. The Grade 12 Oakridge secondary school student was informed that she ranked 37th in line for one of 36 awards. "It's…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (551+ words) The number of students who identify as autistic in the Thames Valley District school board system has increased significantly over the past 10 years, new figures show. In a report released last month at a special education advisory committee meeting, superintendent…...

3+ mon, 2+ day ago  (311+ words) Nine more Fanshawe College programs are on the chopping block, officials say. Nine more Fanshawe College programs are on the chopping block, officials say, as the cash-strapped school struggles to tame a growing deficit amid caps on international students and…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (710+ words) The college says the campus is no longer financially viable. Fanshawe College is closing its south London campus on Sept. 1 and moving its students and programs to its main campus on Oxford Street as it battles a "significant deficit" fueled…...

8+ mon, 4+ week ago  (700+ words) "There is no timeline for even a discussion about how to support them," a source said. Some Thames Valley pupils with special needs are not going to school because they lack supports as the special education program has come to…...