Sheep may safely graze (but not in London Ontario)

Are farmlands on our outskirts a bad image for London?

Developers vs Woodlands: Round four

Land use is at the heart of municipal politics: who owns it, what you can do with it, how much money you can make on it.

What's up with the Sun Life deal?

At the Board of Control on Wednesday we received a report from two Ivey Business School professors which analyzed a proposal by Sun Life to build a business park which could accommodate warehouses and some light industry on a piece of farm land on the south side of Wilton Grove Road across from the city's Forest City Industrial Park. Although Sun Life had withdrawn its proposal nearly a year ago, the report suggested that it could have offered a good economic opportunity and a number of members of the Board of Control decried the loss of hundreds and even thousands of potential new jobs.

But was it really a good deal?

To answer that question, we need to go back to how this all came about.