On October 13, the City identified $186.8 million in the campus’s life-to-date capital budget and capital plan through 2033, but said a current breakdown of costs by component was unavailable. Preliminary capital estimates and an implementation plan were expected in 2027. With the election approaching, voters have an overall figure but no current component costs or clear account of which further spending decisions remain for Council.
“I was born in the middle of nowhere,” says Mireya Folch-Serra, an emerita professor of geography at Western University whose research focuses on diaspora and exile. She was born on November 14th, 1937, in the midst of the Civil War that led to Franco’s 39-year military dictatorship in Spain. Her mother, the daughter of philosophy professor and rector of the University of Barcelona Dr. Jaume Serra i Hunter, feared giving birth beneath the bombs in embattled Barcelona. She fled to her father-in-law’s cottage in Tarragona. “My grandfather – the father of my father – was a medical doctor. They had…
Capitalism and colonialism thrive on the erasure of our memories, that function as a type of amnesia of the working class. It is crucial to preserve our histories, victories, and struggles; by remembering, we combat dominant narratives that benefit those in power. By consciously recollecting, we practice hope – a discipline that works to disrupt capitalist and colonialist ideologies. The process allows us to invest in the belief of systemic alternatives. From this memory work, we learn and develop the revolutionary practices that it will take to get us there. Amnesia is an imperfect metaphor for this phenomenon, as we…
The Prisoners’ Justice Film Festival (PJFF) has a historic legacy in London, running from 2012-2016. This year, our organizing collective finally brought it back, screening five films in the first week of August as a lead up to International Prisoners’ Justice Day on August 10. On that date in 1974, Eddie Nalon died by suicide at the Millhaven Maximum Security Prison near Kingston, Ontario, after being repeatedly subjected to solitary confinement — a practice which has been called a form of torture by the UN. One year later, prisoners at Millhaven stopped all work and went on a hunger strike…
The Punk Rock Flea Fest celebrated a ten year anniversary in late September, kicking off with an exhibition opening at TAP Centre for Creativity on September 24. It featured an array of live music, local vendors, and afterparties. While the Punk Rock Flea Markets happen seasonally, the distinctive Punk Rock Flea Fest ten year anniversary celebration was bigger, louder, and with more live music and local venue involvement. For the exhibition opening, Victory Tattoos from the Old East Village provided affordable flash tattoos on site to gallery visitors, while local indie-fuzz garage rock band La Rent played songs from their…
As an organization, the Council of Canadians (CoC) has long held the powers that be to account since its founding in 1985 by Maude Barlow, Mel Hurtig, ecologist David Suzuki and author Margaret Atwood. The CoC’s main focus remains the expansion of public health care, climate justice, the protection of democracy, and the protection of water as a human right, an increasingly important electoral issue with the expansion of water-consuming AI data centres. The CoC remains active locally in London, Ontario, demanding the best of the powers that be. As municipal elections approach, the Coc’s grassroots advocacy seeks to provide…
