The London Free Press Podcast

Host Rachel Gilbert spoke with LFP business reporter Norman De Bono, who broke the story that the massive Amazon plant built south of London still has no date to start hiring and operating. They discuss what’s caused the delay and what’s next.

Host Rachel Gilbert spoke with LFP sportswriter Ryan Pyette about the rough-so-far season for the London Majors, who’ve won two straight Intercounty Baseball League titles but are struggling at the midway point this summer.

Host Rachel Gilbert spoke with LFP reporter Jennifer Bieman about how city hall’s response to London’s homelessness crisis has been received by downtown businesses and about the vote by city council to fund a plan to service four encampments.

Host Rachel Gilbert spoke with LFP justice reporter Jane Sims about the latest convictions for David Norton, the disgraced former Anglican priest already in prison for sexually abusing young boys.

Host Rachel Gilbert spoke with LFP reporter Jennifer Bieman about the story she broke on the split that looms between London’s two hospitals, London Health Sciences Centre and St. Joseph’s Health Care, and what it might mean for patients and the community.

Host Rachel Gilbert spoke with LFP’s Randy Richmond about his interview with the Londoner, speaking on condition of continued anonymity, who gave $25 million to kick-start a new system to help the city’s homeless.

Host Rachel Gilbert spoke with LFP’s Jane Sims about the story she broke on the arrest after a three-year manhunt of Ali Fageer. He will soon be sentenced for the 2015 shooting death of Mark McCullagh, who was killed while taking out the trash at his Old East Village home.

Host Rachel Gilbert spoke with London Free Press reporter Randy Richmond, who has interviewed local doctors on both sides of the growing debate over the safer drug supply offered to about 300 Londoners – those who believe it’s life-saving, and those who believe it leads to more harm.

Host Rachel Gilbert spoke with LFP reporter Calvi Leon about the unique circumstances surrounding the upcoming federal byelection in Oxford, where the former longtime Conservative MP is endorsing a Liberal candidate.

Host Rachel Gilbert and LFP sportswriter Ryan Pyette preview the Ontario Hockey League championship final between the London Knights and Peterborough Petes, two of the league’s flagship franchises.

Host Rachel Gilbert spoke with LFP reporter Dale Carruthers about the hiring of London’s new police chief, Thai Truong, his professional and personal background and his stated priorities as he takes the helm.

Host Rachel Gilbert spoke with LFP reporter Dale Carruthers about his investigation into an alleged drug lab London police raided in a high-end home, and the unusual link between the two men charged.

Host Rachel Gilbert spoke with LFP justice reporter Jane Sims about the conviction and sentencing of impaired driver Kelly Jacobs in a collision that killed her own friend, Beulah Peters, and the reality of covering criminal courts.

Host Rachel Gilbert spoke with LFP crime reporter Dale Carruthers about a crossroads facing policing, and how police chiefs nationwide are urging reforms after the line-of-duty deaths of nine officers in the past six months in Canada.

Host Rachel Gilbert spoke with LFP's Randy Richmond about The Boy With Two Names, a special project two years in the making. It examines the Sixties Scoop that tore Indigenous children from their homes, how it fractured a family and led one son onto a deadly path toward London's troubled provincial jail.

Host Rachel Gilbert spoke with LFP reporter Jonathan Juha about city hall staff’s call to close down London’s 1927-built Thames Park Pool and the public pressure on city council to find a way to keep it open.

Host Rachel Gilbert spoke with LFP sportswriter Ryan Pyette about the 2023 Tim Hortons Brier, on at London’s Budweiser Gardens until March 12, and whether Brad Gushue’s Team Canada rink will win it again.

Host Rachel Gilbert spoke with LFP reporter Norman De Bono about his investigation into the mega-land parcel cobbled together by St. Thomas officials, which may be just right for a potential electric-vehicle battery plant.

Host Rachel Gilbert spoke with LFP reporter Randy Richmond about his ongoing coverage of the massive new system proposed to aid Londoners experiencing homelessness.

Host Rachel Gilbert spoke with LFP reporter Jonathan Juha about a project launched by two academics who want to study the lives of freed Black slaves who came to London to start again – not just their arrival, but what life was actually like here.

Host Rachel Gilbert speaks with LFP reporter Norman De Bono about the purchase by Telus of Start.ca , a made-in-London internet service provider and what it means for customers amid big changes in Canada’s telecommunications landscape.

Host Rachel Gilbert spoke with LFP reporter Jonathan Juha about his story on a new analysis that underscores just how difficult it’s become for many young adults in London to achieve home ownership.

Host Rachel Gilbert spoke with LFP reporter Randy Richmond about the $25-million gift from an anonymous family to help the city’s homeless population and how exactly it may work.

Host Rachel Gilbert spoke with LFP reporter Jennifer Bieman about a surprising reality with local COVID-19 statistics and the COVID, cold and flu clinic that’s now seeing children.

Host Rachel Gilbert spoke with LFP reporter Norman De Bono about the twin realities of downtown London – the social issues are clear, but so, too, is the demand from people who want to live there, and that’s driving development.