LOCAL HEADLINES

The 2025 Federal Budget arrived with a promise to tilt policy toward investment, productivity and long-run growth.

A report just accepted by Stratford city council at its meeting on Nov. 10 paints a dire picture of the area’s child-care services.

The Stratford Film Festival (SFF) held its first ever four-day festival Nov. 6-9, with thirteen screenings that had been whittled down from submissions of over 500 films. Opening night was sold out with a welcoming reception and the screening of the award-winning documentary Beethoven Nine: Ode to Humanity directed by Canadian Larry Weinstein. The feature took home the Best Documentary award.

As the electricity demand in Ontario is expected to grow rapidly in the coming decades, Bruce Power is planning for the next generation.

Nurse Practitioner’s Week had an extra special meaning at Tillsonburg District Memorial Hospital (TDMH) with the success of a year of the Rapid Assessment Fast Track (RAFT) program under Nurse Practitioner (NP), Krista Wright.

With the changing of the seasons and the approach of winter, the Soulstice Collective Fall Market offers a space to pause and reconnect – to nourish body and spirit through local wellness, handcrafted goods and community energy.

In a home-and-home series on Nov. 7 and Nov. 9, the St. Marys Lincolns and Waterloo Siskins picked up right where they left off in their first-round playoff this past spring.

As the transformation of downtown Paris begins to take shape, Councillor John Bell says community backlash over the new streetscape and parking layout is growing, prompting him to push for changes before construction wraps up. Bell raised the issue at the Oct. 28 council meeting during discussion of a staff report on parking and traffic modifications across the County. The matter had been deferred from the Administration and Operations Committee, but Bell said he felt compel

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

Three Canadian organizations are coordinating efforts to offer mental health support for Jamaican foreign migrant workers struggling to deal with Hurricane Melissa’s devastation. Canadians and workers’ host communities quite literally benefit from the fruits and vegetables of their labour says Leanne Arnal, Manager of Community Development, Catholic Community Services York Region (CCSYR), Simcoe Satellite Office. And now, in those workers’ time of need, she feels responsibil

Starting Dec. 4, calls for paramedic services in Waterloo Region will be triaged and dispatched using a new Medical Priority Dispatch System (MPDS).

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).