The Township of Terrace Bay was successful in receiving a financial contribution from the Federal Community Infrastructure Improvement Project for $27,500. The contribution will go towards the costs of adding an air conditioning system to the main Community Hall in the Municipality. The [Read more]
Just like the corner store or local diner, the family farm is disappearing from Canada at a rapid pace. Since 2007 Canada has lost over 22,000 family farms as the trend toward corporate agriculture picks up steam. While this may seem like an inevitable conclusion, we should seriously consider [Read more]
An access to information request filed by Greenpeace turned up a letter sent by the oil and gas industry to the Ministers of the Environment and Natural Resources in December of 2011 that helps explain much of the contentious content in the budget bills C-38, and C-45. The letter laid out [Read more]
TORONTO, ON – KI community member, Mark T. Anderson will walk from Queens Park to Parliament Hill starting at 8 a.m. today (Jan. 2) to say ‘no’ to continued treaty violations by the federal government. Anderson, who will be joined by members of the KI leadership and youth, has [Read more]
Kim Inglis, CIM, PFP, FCSI, AIFP is an Investment Advisor & Portfolio Manager with Canaccord Wealth Management, a division of Canaccord Genuity Corp., Member – Canadian Investor Protection Fund. www.reynoldsinglis.ca. Read her column “Money’$ Worth” every other week here on [Read more]
Consultation, Not Arbitrary, Laws Needed to Address First Nations’ Issues; Prime Minister can start by meeting Chief Spence, Aboriginal leaders Rather than proceed with bills that adversely affect First Nations sovereignty and lands, the Prime Minister should meet with Aboriginal leaders and hold [Read more]
OTTAWA, ON–The Honourable Joe Oliver, Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, announced today the re-appointment of Dr. Michael Binder as President of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC). Dr. Binder, who was first appointed to the position in January 2008, has been [Read more]
Revelations that Canadian Food Inspection Agency inspectors were instructed to allow contaminated carcasses to be processed in the now infamous XL Foods plant in southern Alberta confirm the worst suspicions of those who believe the agency is receiving direction that flies in the face of actual [Read more]
Joint Review Panel has made a decision on the sufficiency of the Marathon Platinum Group Metals and Copper Mine Project Environmental Impact Statement. The decision is posted on the public registry as document #334 and can be found at the following link: [Read more]
OTTAWA, ON – The Conservative’s can’t just legislate themselves free of the government’s primary responsibilities to First Nations says Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing MP, Carol Hughes. Hughes was speaking to a Senate bill that will unilaterally impose regulations on First Nations for the [Read more]
ELLIOT LAKE, ON – The state of emergency declared by the Municipality of Wawa and surrounding area is a shocking illustration of how we are often at the mercy of nature, says Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing, MP, Carol Hughes. “This is a dramatic development that will require a strong [Read more]
Michael Ferguson, Canada’s Auditor General (AG), reported to parliament this week and his findings are enough to keep the place busy for a long time. Among them is a worrisome claim that the government’s budgets are not even analyzed by Finance Canada until months after they have been [Read more]
Canada’s nuclear industry is getting close to setting a final storage site for some 50,000 tonnes of accumulated nuclear waste. This is a decision that will have a major impact on Northwestern Ontario. Most people may not know that regardless of the location that’s chosen, people in [Read more]
Environment Canada: The ideal new operator of Experimental Lakes Area OTTAWA, ON – Fisheries & Oceans Canada maintains that research at the world-class Experimental Lakes Area (ELA) is no longer aligned with the department’s core mandate after changes to the Fisheries Act in Budget [Read more]
If you have something embarrassing to announce a good time to do it is on a Friday afternoon. It is believed that most news outlets have set their stories by that point, and the majority of journalists are not paying attention to the news ticker. This is even truer on a Friday before a long [Read more]
