Photo courtesy of FlickrThe London-St. Thomas unemployment rate, released by Statistics Canada on Friday morning, shows a drop of four basis points compared to the month prior.
April 2015 had a jobless rate of 6.5%, down from 6.9% in March.
The local rate is now lower than the national rate of unemployment, which stayed steady at 6.8%. Even though the national economy lost 19,700 jobs, Stats-Can said it wasn't enough to alter the rate.
In hopes of raising awareness of the help available to sexual violence survivors, a local crisis centre has handed out stickers to over 200 businesses.
Three people are facing charges after separate incidents took place over the long weekend.
Conor Allin is officially running again, this time in Ward 8, which covers people in the southern part of Chatham.
The Toronto Blue Jays snapped the Astros' six-game winning streak with a 3-1 win in Houston Monday night.
The Toronto Blue Jays lost 5-1 to the St. Louis Cardinals in MLB action on Sunday.
A multi-million dollar Chatham fraud trial begins this week.
