London's 10 most-read stories of 2021
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Here are the 10 most-read stories published on the CBC London website for 2020. Feel free to explore them all.
The list below is ranked by the number of times each story was viewed by readers such as you:
The sudden departures of two high-ranking executives at southwestern Ontario's largest hospital came about five months after the organization's CEO was sacked for travelling to the United States during the pandemic. Read the full story here.
As the coronavirus raged, an outspoken Aylmer, Ont., church group defied restrictions by not only holding in-person services without masks, but also by inviting a few special guests, all of them critics of Ontario's pandemic response. Read the full story here.
Londoner Bronson Deagle was at a Grand Bend, Ont., beach with his wife and two daughters, when he noticed someone was in trouble. Read the full story here.
A group of 19 Ontario police officers launched a constitutional challenge in May, claiming that enforcing pandemic health restrictions put them at odds with their sworn oath to uphold the charter. Read the full story here.
Despite health directives advising Canadians to avoid all non-essential travel, two Ontario nurses traveled to Washington DC to attend a rally by a group of their peers promoting conspiracy theories about "COVID fraud." Read the full story here.
When Yassin Dabeh, a 19-year-old cleaner at a long-term care home outside London, Ont., contracted COVID-19 and died, he became the youngest person to lose his life to the virus at the time. Read the full story here.
After 24 years of slinging sausages to hungry customers, London, Ont. Canadian Tire hot dog stand owner David Jafray was forced to move on after he said he couldn't reach a deal with the retail store's new owner. Read the full story here.
Kadince Ball, a first-year Western University student who arrived in London, Ont., from Saskatchewan, had a rental agreement cancelled last minute by a landlord who said she didn't like her tattoos because they were 'scary.' Read the full story, here.
Olympic champion bobsledder Alex Kopacz of London, Ont. shared his fears with CBC News after catching a debilitating case of COVID-19 back in April. Read the full story here.
Fear and mourning gripped the nation after shocking attack on a Muslim family of five who were run down while out for an evening stroll in a normally quiet suburb in London, Ont. Read the full story here.
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Wilfrid Laurier University's Centre for Indigegogy closed for good on Tuesday.
Police in Prince Edward Island are reminding drivers that the consequences of trying to get out of a speeding ticket aren't worth the potential impacts on someone's life.
Nunavut's information and privacy commissioner says there are systemic problems around the privacy of children in care.
Judy Wells lost her brother to a drunk driver when he was only 13 — it never stopped her from drunk driving herself.
As Canada heads into peak grilling season, a company is using made-in-London technology to offer a different way for customers buy and exchange the propane tanks that fuel barbecues and other equipment.
When Brittany Ramsey started experiencing "awful stomach episodes" she thought it must've been side effects of the medication she was taking to manage her diabetes.
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Halifax spent more than $160,000 on the wrong type of wildfire protective gear, and the union for municipal firefighters says the mix-up is just one example that the department is not properly preparing for wildfires.
Stayed murder charges mean some of the five people will be released from custody while others will remain behind bars on other charges.
As development creeps closer to Kahnawà:ke's borders, Grand Chief Cody Diabo says the community near Montreal is fed up — watching homes and businesses get built on land they say has belonged to them for centuries, while a 345-year-old land grievance remains stalled in federal bureaucracy.
A Manitoba woman who is being sued by her former boyfriend in a dispute over a $5-million lottery prize says she is the lawful winner of the lottery money and at the time of the win, the man did not dispute that she was the ticket holder.
New wildfires in the Saskatchewan's northwest have forced almost 200 people to leave their homes.
Two men were found dead in Scarborough on Wednesday evening, Toronto police say.