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Bieber concert proceeds going to Stratford food bank
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Trans activist Clara Sorrenti thought she was in a safe place in a London hotel. Then pizzas she didn't order started to show up.
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A rural municipality north of London won't be flying the rainbow flag on municipal property once Pride month begins in June.
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A #ldnont wedding photographer's pictures of a hero-groom are going viral
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Clara Sorrenti, a London transgender activist, woke up Friday to find an assault rifle pointed in her face and London police officers searching her home. She says she was a victim of a "swatting." @JaneatLFPress shares @keffalsbackup 's story: #ldnont
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The organizer of a protest against a London Pride event has been charged with criminal harassment after a selfie was taken in a palliative care room in Windsor. @WinStarChen has more: #ldnont
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A pregnant #LdnOnt nurse who says she's about to be fired for refusing the #COVID19 vaccine has made a public appeal to her boss to save her job. Why, she's asking, is it still mandatory in order to work at London Health Sciences Centre? #onpoli
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Humberto Ponce De Leon is removed by security after storming the stage as Doug Ford spoke to supporters at a Lamplighter Inn rally in #ldnont Sunday. "As a citizen I have the right to tell people before they vote that Doug Ford is fraud," he said later. 📸: @DerekatLFPress
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More than 400 students at London's Eagle Heights public school stayed home Wednesday, on a day when the rainbow flag flew across the school district saluting International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia. @HeatheratLFP reports: #ldnont
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Aylmer's Church of God loses #COVID19 court challenge
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Western University has reserved all available rooms at the Windermere Manor Hotel in #ldnont for the next month to accommodate health-care workers who may need to isolate from their families. #coronavirus
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BREAKING: Masks will be mandatory in all indoor public places across London starting Saturday #ldnont
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During his London stop, federal PPC Leader @MaximeBernier focused on delivering his anti- #COVID19 restrictions message, saying PPC would always be against lockdowns, mask mandates, and vaccine passports. #ldnont #cdnpoli #elxn44
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REUNITED: Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir will be at the Ilderton Skating Club’s 50th anniversary ice show Saturday at Ilderton Arena. #ldnont
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Londoner Evelyn Walsh and partner Trennt Michaud finished second at the national figure skating championships this weekend, but weren't named to either of Canada's two Olympics spots -- a decision that angered fans nationwide #CTNats22 #ldnont
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A transgender woman and activist who was the victim of a “swatting” attack has launched an Ontario human rights complaint against London police @JaneatLFPress has the details:
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Congratulations to @tessavirtue and @ScottMoir who will be joining Canada's Walk of Fame in December! #ldnont #ilderton @CWOFame
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LFP ARCHIVES: As Scott & Tessa get set for their latest accolades (story link below), this 2005 @LFPress photo is a flashback to one of their first -- baby-faced gold medallists returning from a major competition in China @ScottMoir @tessavirtue #LdnOnt
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LIVE: Protesters have set up tents at Western University in what could be the first attempt to set up an encampment at an Ontario university amid a wave of pro-Palestinian protests spreading across campuses in Canada and the U.S. #ldnont
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'Sets us back': Southwestern Ontario town bans flags, rejects push to declare Pride month #LdnOnt #onpoli
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An ex-nurse from London and her anti-vaccine organization are on the hook for $315,000 in court costs after losing a libel lawsuit. @JaneatLFPress has more: #ldnont
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Do you support having a #COVID19 vaccine passport in Canada?
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Budweiser Gardens gives food from cancelled events to My Sisters' Place #ldnont
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Rachel McAdams caps LHSC #COVID19 stream-a-thon with $10,000 donation #ldnont #coronavirus
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How one Ottawa neighbourhood fought back against the 'Freedom Convoy' and won:
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A new poll shows that 66% of Canadians support the decision to invoke the Emergencies Act and 67% say it’s time to clear out all protesters in Ottawa.
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BREAKING: Londoner Damian Warner has won the gold medal in decathlon at the Toyko Olympic games. The 31-year-old broke an Olympic record with 9,018 points in the two-day competition. #TokyoOlympics2020
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Heartland star @Amber_Marshall says working with a baby is fresh new challenge #ldnont
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Rodney Stafford, father of Tori, is asking the public to 'be kind' to mark what would have been the Woodstock girl’s 20th birthday this Wednesday.
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Congratulations to London's Damian Warner who has been named Canada’s Athlete of the Year! #ldnont
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CONGRATULATIONS! Maggie Mac Neil poses with her set of gold, silver, and bronze swimming medals from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, in front of the pool her family put in at their London home to teach her to swim. 📸: @MikeatLFPress #ldnont #Olympics
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A first-year Western University student who dreamed of becoming an army doctor is being mourned after a fatal late-night assault near campus mere days into his studies in London. #ldnont
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Southwestern Ontario WWII veteran celebrates100th birthday
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Western University's Catholic affiliate, King's University College, has broken from #LdnOnt 's bishop and raised the Pride flag for the first time. It's one of the few Catholic Southwestern Ontario institutions to take the step. ANALYSIS: #pride #onpoli
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Students at the Thames Valley District school board will soon be required to take a compulsory Grade 11 English course focusing on Indigenous authors and issues. @HeatheratLFP reports: #ldnont
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Canada's oldest water-powered flour mill, near #ldnont , is going gangbusters to feed the demand from home bakers created by the #coronavirus lockdown.
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Listowel Cyclones head coach inspires his players as he battles brain tumour
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in #ldnont Sunday as thousands gathered for a march marking the one-year anniversary of the alleged hate-motivated killing of the Afzaal family. He praised the student-organizers of the event, our @DaleatLFPress reports:
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OPP Commissioner Thomas Carrique, “outraged” over the shooting death of a rookie police officer, is calling for changes he says will better protect law enforcement and broader communities. #swont
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A local politician who led a push to promote LGBTQ+ inclusion in Norwich Township quit mid-meeting Tuesday night as her council colleagues gave final approval to a ban on non-government flags, including Pride flags, on municipal property #LdnOnt #onpoli
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A tearful Western University professor says she refuses to take the #COVID19 vaccine and compares herself to Socrates – "who was executed for asking questions" – as she contemplates being fired by the school, which has made vaccination mandatory. #ldnont
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After four decades, another @OUAsport coach-of-the-year honour and a silver-medal finish at provincials in Toronto last weekend, @WesternU skating coach Alma Moir is ready to retire. #ldnont
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Free Press reporter @RyanatLFPress shares his view of @tessavirtue and @ScottMoir during @SkateCanada preseason camp today in Mississauga.
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Downtown #LdnOnt 's Richmond Row bar strip, generally packed with post-secondary students, was quiet Saturday night amid a #covid19 outbreak at Western University. There were also no visible parties around Western or Fanshawe College's main campuses. 📸: @DaleatLFPress
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Today's @lfpress front page #LdnONt
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Less than three years ago, Arielle Kayabaga was a rookie on London city council. Now she’s the city’s newest MP. #ldnont
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BREAKING: Canadians @tessavirtue and @ScottMoir have won ice dance gold at the #Olympics ! #ldnont #ilderton
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. @tessavirtue and @ScottMoir 's post-Olympic party still going strong #ldnont #ilderton
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EXCLUSIVE: Starting in October, London will finally be plugged into the provincially run GO passenger rail system. #ldnont
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From a first-time Olympian returning to the Forest City with a trio of medals, to the soccer star behind the game-winning goal that propelled Canada to the gold-medal match, London’s female athletes are standouts at the Tokyo Games. #ldnont #Olympics
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BREAKING NEWS UPDATE: Jonathan and his wife PASSED THE CITIZENSHIP TEST!!!!!!!! #congrats #canadian #eh #si #yes #LdnOnt
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Colombian native Jonathan Juha, a Free Press reporter, and his wife face an important hurdle Wednesday: the Canadian citizenship test. @JuhaatLFPress #ldnont
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Hospital officials from across the region announced Monday that masking requirements for everyone entering hospitals in Southwestern Ontario will remain in place “indefinitely.” #ldnont #swont
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A crowd estimated at 8,000 has converged on the @WesternU campus for a student walkout to demand change after a troubling week of allegations of on-campus sexual violence: #LdnOnt #onpoli
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Staff at #ldnOnt test sites #COVID19 free through 133,000 swabs
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Southwestern Ontario egg farmers scramble to donate surplus eggs to food banks, shelters
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OPINION: @tessavirtue and @ScottMoir urge sport organizations to help make amateur sports safe for every athlete
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Dying London man reaches $25,000 fundraising goal for Youth Opportunities Unlimited #ldnont
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A prominent London business owner and lawyer says he and his wife donated US$25,000 to the Ottawa protest because they were tired of “overreaching” incursions on Canadians’ freedoms. @RandyRatLFPress has more: #ldnont
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GOLD! Canada's women's soccer team wins against Sweden in sudden death. Londoner Jessie Fleming scored the game-tying goal and the first penalty kick. #TokyoOlympics
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Shaun Johnston brings stories and songs from Heartland to @JRLMALondon #ldnont
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Get the shot: Western makes #COVID19 vaccination mandatory #ldnont
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. @FanshaweCollege follows up key medical equipment donation with protective gear #ldnont #coronavirus
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London-Ilderton ice dance duo Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir shatter world record to lead short program at #PyeongChang2018
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Thames Valley District school board are considering a pilot project to give free municipal bus passes to all high school students in London, St. Thomas and Woodstock. @HeatheratLFP has more: #ldnont #sttont #woodstock
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Londoner Jessie Fleming scored from the penalty spot to give Canada a 1-0 win against the United States at the Tokyo Olympics. The Canadian women's soccer team will play for gold on Friday.
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Loved ones are mourning Henry Harder and John Martens, the two young men killed in Friday's construction-site collapse in #LdnOnt . They were 26 and 21, respectively Full story:
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ANALYSIS: The Hunter brothers finally put their golden mark on Canada's world junior team, by @RyanatLFPress #ldnont #worldjuniors @GoLondonKnights
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PHOTOS: Free Press journalists are covering a vigil at the London Muslim Mosque and a show of support by scores of citizens between the mosque and the site of a crash that killed four members of a London family – an attack police allege was hate-motivated.
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GUILTY Nathaniel Veltman, the white nationalist who killed a London family with his souped-up pickup truck “because they were Muslim” has been found guilty of multiple murders. #ldnont #windsor
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Breaking news with huge implications for the London-area economy: Union: Cami plant poised to build Ontario's first 100% electric vehicle, a battery-powered commercial van #ldnont #onpoli
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Their township banned flying Pride flags on municipal turf, but that hasn’t stopped families, businesses and the local school in Norwich from flying their own. @CanadaLJI 's @CalviatLFPress reports:
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In a joint investigation by @lfpress and @uwogazette , several students have provided harrowing accounts of a terrifying Orientation Week at Western University that's trained a harsh spotlight on its campus culture Read the full story: #LdnOnt #onpoli
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BROTHERS IN ARMS: @WesternMustangs player Max Von Muehldorfer, right, embraces his older brother, St. Francis Xavier’s Ben Von Muehldorfer, after Western’s 61-6 win in the Mitchell Bowl, Canada’s national university football semifinal, in #LdnOnt on Saturday 📸: @DaleatLFPress
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She denounced #ldnont ’s mask bylaw. She organized an anti-lockdown rally at Victoria Park. She spoke at a Washington rally. Now, @DanatLFPress reports this former NICU nurse has been fired. #COVID19
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Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir capture #Olympic ice dance gold to cap greatest and most stunning figure skating comeback in history #ldnont
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Local distillery, factory re-tooling to supply Ontario with much-needed medical supplies.
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Bob Patel, owner of Wayside Restaurant in Talbotville, and other volunteers will begin giving out free meals once a week in St. Thomas to help people struggling during the pandemic.
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Will you be watching @tessavirtue and @ScottMoir on @TheEllenShow next Tuesday? #ldnont
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A trailblazing local goalie has a chance to make Ontario Hockey League draft her-story. #LdnOnt #ohl #hockey
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WATCH: Two-time Olympic champion and three-time world champion ice dancers @tessavirtue and @ScottMoir received honorary doctorates from @WesternU . #ldnont
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WELL-EARNED HONOUR: Olympic gold medalists Tessa Virtue of London and Scott Moir of Ilderton were honoured in his hometown Wednesday on their looming induction into the Canadian Walk Of Fame, in Toronto. (Max Martin/The London Free Press)
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This graphic from the Middlesex-London Health Unit tracks the COVID-19 outbreak among Western University students over the past 10 or so days #LdnOnt #covid19 #coronavirus @MLHealthUnit
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A topless woman stood outside this church in Norwich Township last Sunday – and will be there every Sunday in June – to protest the municipality's ban on flying Pride and other non-government flags on civic property. @CanadaLJI 's @CalviatLFPress reports:
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London’s first pop-up homeless shelter is expected to open Wednesday evening to house 30 people who have been living outside and have nowhere else to go. @MeganatLFPress and @MikeatLFPress toured the new shelter: #ldnont
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@LHSCCanada chief executive Paul Woods travelled to the U.S. five times since the start of the pandemic, including over the Christmas break #covid19 #ldnont
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LETTERS: One reader suggests libraries open like restaurants - you place an order online for books or videos, have a librarian prepare your order for pickup at the local branch - all with no direct contact. Would you order books from the library? #ldnont
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A trio of city councillors wants to keep mandatory masking in London by reviving a local bylaw to require them indoors. @MeganatLFPress says Maureen Cassidy, Stephen Turner and Jesse Helmer are calling for a special meeting Tuesday: #ldnont
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GOLDEN MOMENT: 200 members of the London Aquatic Club gathered at a local drive-in to watch clubmate Maggie Mac Neil win Olympic gold in the women's 100m butterfly Sunday night. 'It was pretty amazing,' one club member said. @LACswimnation @mags_swims26 #LdnOnt #Tokyo2020
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LETTERS: A Free Press reader thinks people believe the "root cause of the homeless crisis is the closing of the psychiatric hospitals" and that the government should restore some form of hospital assistance for these people. What are your thoughts? #ldnont
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As dozens of London tenants facing eviction rallied behind him, NDP Leader @theJagmeetSingh vowed to push for a moratorium on so-called renovictions and for a national fund to build public housing stock. @RandyRatLFPress reports: #ldnont #cdnpoli
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Instead of raising a red and white flag on Canada Day, thousands of people marched through downtown London in honour of residential school victims and survivors. 📸: @DerekatLFPress #ldnont #TurtleIslandHealingWalk
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London's police chief: The pedestrians struck Sunday night were all family members. "Based on the information collected...we believe this was an intentional act...and the victims of this horrific incident were targeted because of their Islamic Faith." #LdnOnt #onpoli #cdnpoli
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Fifteen-year-old Callum Thompson is using his 3D printer to make face shields for medical professionals in #ldnont . #coronavirus
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During a weekend campaign stop in London, Ontario Premier Doug Ford wouldn’t commit to reintroducing legislation to fight Islamophobia. @JuhaatLFPress has more: #ldnont #OurLondonFamily #onpoli #OntarioVotes
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LFP's Newsmaker of the Decade: Scott & Tessa While it may feel that over the past 10 years the world has become more divided, this choice is a reminder that some things – and some people – are so fun and positive that they unite almost everyone #ldnont
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Scott & Tessa have been named the #LdnOnt sportspeople of the year by @SportsCeleb officials @ScottMoir @tessavirtue
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An area People's Party of Canada candidate who's charged in connection with an anti-lockdown rally has been diagnosed with #covid19 , as have her children: #onpoli #ckont #coronavirus #cdnpoli
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London will receive $74 million from the federal government to build 2,000 housing units in the next three years, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced at an event in the city @RandyRatLFPress has the details:
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