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Otomancek, his partner Sydney Mensen and their 14-year-old chihuahua, Rico. Both Otomancek and Mensen have been working from home since the widespread Ontario closures were announced. (Submitted by Bojan Otomancek)

JADE PREVOST-MANUEL – If Londoners weren’t confined to their homes right now, odds are they’d be staring gape-mouthed at the deserted malls and caution-tape-wrapped playgrounds—scenes of the city’s COVID-19 closures. Since London announced a state of emergency on March 20, more and more businesses are closing their doors as theContinue Reading

Ian Matheson, missing teen

MIRA WILLIAMSON – Police are asking for help locating a London teenager whose family hasn’t seen him for more than three weeks. Fourteen-year-old Ian Matheson’s family first reported him missing Feb. 3, police said Wednesday. The teen was seen after that — the night of Feb. 14, he was spottedContinue Reading

Prime Minister Trudeau discussing the Coronavirus

JADE PREVOST-MANUEL – At an Ottawa news conference this morning, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced $1 billion in federal funding to offset the economic and health impacts of 2020’s coronavirus, or COVID-19, outbreak. Trudeau says people shouldn’t go to work when they’re not feeling well. But the economic impacts ofContinue Reading