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The first budget handed down by the federal government in 18 months included a deficit of $78.3 billion with no sign of a balanced budget.

A tradition started in Wilmot Township a few years ago has now spread to Canada’s capital, and local Royal Canadian Legion members are hoping to take it even further next year.

It wasn’t for a lack of effort, but Tavistock dropped its third game in a row and now sits in third place in the Provincial Junior Hockey League’s (PJHL) Doherty Division.

As designs for a three-story, 33,000 square-foot film and television studio in the heart of downtown Stratford inch closer to being finalized, the people behind the ambitious project aimed at placing the Festival City at the centre of Canada’s content-production industry are hopeful shovels could hit the dirt as early as next year.

Across the nation on Nov. 11, Canadians will honour its veterans for Remembrance Day. Here is what’s planned in Stratford that day.

Members and past members of the Tillsonburg Rotary Club came from near and far to celebrate the club's 75th anniversary since its establishment in Tillsonburg.

Though it has taken longer than expected, the Pyramid Recreation Centre (PRC) aquatics centre could be ready to reopen by the end of this month or the beginning of next.

The St. Marys Museum will unveil a brand-new exhibit in its military gallery on Remembrance Day focused on communication during the First World War, both from the battle front and the home front.

Rick Fifield, Mike Craig and the 1962-1963 St. Marys Lincolns all-Ontario championship team were honoured as inductees in the second class of the St. Marys Sports Wall of Fame on Nov. 1 at the Pyramid Recreation Centre (PRC).

South Ward’s Halloween House Decorating contest returned this year and, while contending with weather, the World Series and a new event format, it turned out to be a spooktacular event.  This annual community happening, organized by Paris business owner and Halloween enthusiast Tiffany Martin, is such a fun and frightening initiative that engages the locals in a friendly competition and boosts the spirit of the season. 

Keeping pace with the frenetic growth of new technology is hard enough on its own, but when paired with confusing agreements that are longer than Tolstoy’s War and Peace and using complicated legalese, it can make any business owner’s head spin.

When he started what would become one of West Lincoln’s most prominent farming operations, Daryl Haanstra had little more than his 1998 John Deere 6620 Titan II combine and a strong work ethic.

Oxford MP Arpan Khanna was glad to see the government introduce legislation to tackle shortfalls in the country’s bail system but said it could do more.

Members of Unifor Local 88, along with other locals and labour supporters, held a Solidarity Action rally at Ingersoll’s CAMI manufacturing plant on Wednesday in response to General Motors’ elimination of production of the BrightDrop EV delivery van.

When Margaret Smart’s daughter was 14 years old, she would go to youth-led events and initiatives where adults would tell her and her peers, “You are the future.”

In a thrilling come-from-behind victory against the South Huron Panthers in Exeter, the Goderich Vikings field hockey team captured the Huron-Perth championship.

The 2026 draft budget for the City of Stratford projects a 3.09 per cent tax increase – though that figure will likely change as deliberations get underway.

A new native plant mural at Elizabeth’s Art Gallery in Goderich is inviting the community to look closely and get creative. The Wildflower Wall Challenge lets participants identify native plants for a chance to win prizes.

A study on growth analysis shows Tillsonburg leading the county in predicted population growth percentage over the next 40 years.

A decision earlier this year by Mayor Al Strathdee not to use his provincially legislated Strong Mayor Powers to table his official draft 2026 budget for the Town of St. Marys.