Defeated incumbent Mayor Anne Marie DeCicco-Best scrubbed all of her slated media interviews on the morning after the election that brought her ten-year run as Mayor to a close. Granted, it would be a sad and boring undertaking to separately answer a dozen different reporters’ question about what she’s going to do now and she [...]

One of the commonest complaints you hear from citizens about our present City Council regards Councillors capacity for wasting time on matters of strictly secondary importance.

Born in Sarnia in 1961, Ward Three contender Henry Zupanc came to London in 1986. “I came here to work at Power Motion which later turned into Siemen’s Automotive which today unfortunately is closed due to the economy. Because it’s tough to do business in London and because of the costs here, this City lost [...]

Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Joe Swan came to London at the age of eight – about the same time as ex-Free Press publisher, John Paton, who Joe knew well growing up in East London.
“I had a lovely accent which I spent many a day trying to lose while going to school. It was a good [...]

Born and raised in London for his first eight years, Greg Thompson moved to Woodstock where his mother was a major player in that town’s United Way campaign and his father was a long-serving trustee for the Separate School Board, giving him an early grounding in municipal politics and how they work. He studied economics [...]