MANITOUWADGE, ON – Yesterday evening, September 25th, approximately a 1/2 dozen parents accompanied by their children attending the official opening of the Best Start Manitouwadge Hub in it’s new location in Room 18 (lower level) of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School on Flicker Street. [Read more]
LONGLAC, ON – The Greenstone Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) would like to inform residents of Greenstone that there is a natural gas leak on John St. in the town or Longlac. Currently the Greenstone OPP and Longlac Fire Department are at the scene. Natural gas has confirmed that there are no [Read more]
THUNDER BAY, ON – The Thunder Bay Youth Suicide Prevention Task Force has officially launched its new youth mental health campaign “An Athlete Needs You – Know what to do. Know what to say.” It encourages coaches and leaders of youth activities to be on the lookout for young people [Read more]
McGuinty Government Reminds Families to Buckle Up Ontario is launching its annual seatbelt campaign to remind drivers and passengers to buckle up and make sure children are properly secured in the correct child car seat. Police, firefighters, emergency services workers and community road safety [Read more]
MANITOUWADGE, ON – The CNIB Eye Van is a welcome site to residents when it visits Manitouwadge annually to provide specialized eye screening and care services. As it rolls 6,000 km across Northern Ontario it visits more than 30 remote communities. Staffed by a rotating team of visiting [Read more]
OTTAWA, ON – On the final day for residential school survivors to apply for compensation, Carol Hughes is worried that mounting cuts to First Nations organizational bodies will only hamper the ability to focus at the local level and deliver appropriate health services. “The Conservatives like [Read more]
OTTAWA, ON – Stable funding for health care should be a priority for the federal government so we can properly serve Canada’s growing and aging population says Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing MP, Carol Hughes. Despite that reality, the omnibus budget set out a formula that will lower the [Read more]
The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) is pleased to announce the appointments of Dr. Douglas Boreham as Division Head of Medical Sciences and Dr. Elizabeth Levin as Division Head of Human Sciences, effective September 1, 2012. Dr. Douglas Boreham comes to NOSM from McMaster University, [Read more]
MANITOUWADGE, ON – OntarioNewsNorth.com has received many inqueries from concerned residents in regards to what is believed to have been a collapse in the wall of the township’s ‘old sewage bed’ on Industrial Road (a.k.a. Caramat Road). This article must begin with a note [Read more]
MANITOUWADGE, ON – Yesterday evening more than a dozen parents gathered in the Prayer Atrium at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School for a presentation from Restorative Practices Consultant Ron Cameron who had spent the day in sessions with teachers and staff from the school. Parents learned [Read more]
NOSM Welcomes Delegation for Chinese Medical Board Study SUDBURY, ON – September 5-7, 2012, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) welcomed 9 delegates from the China Medical Board Study to the School’s East Campus at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario. Comprised of medical [Read more]
MANITOUWADGE, ON – August 22, 2012 at 10:00 am the Township of Manitouwadge will be conduction a test on the emergency siren. This test is to familiarize the community with the sound of the siren that forms part of the Manitouwadge Emergency Plan. If / when you hear the siren on August 22, [Read more]
MANITOUWADGE, ON – Saturday, August 11th, the Manitouwadge Cancer Assistance Group’s Annual Share the Care Ride was held departing from the Manitouwadge Recreation Centre. thins were changed up from the 10 & 54km rides done in past years. For 2012 Organizer Kristy Noftall invited [Read more]
MANITOUWADGE, ON– The evening of Tuesday, July 31st, Mercedes Hunter, Anna Marie Gillman, Melodie Mallais and fourth friend were on their way to the dock at Prospectors’ Park where they had planned to go swimming when they noticed a man struggling to stay above water and calling for [Read more]
QUEEN’S PARK, ON – NDP MPP Jagmeet Singh and MPP France Gélinas both agree that after 66 witnesses and 15 days of committee hearings into the Ornge scandal, a clear picture has emerged that the McGuinty Liberals had numerous warning signs about the troubled air ambulance service and chose [Read more]
