TORONTO, ON – Barrick Gold Corporation (NYSE:ABX)(TSX:ABX) announced today that Ammar Al-Joundi has been named Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the company, effective July 10, 2012. Mr. Al-Joundi has more than 20 years of experience in corporate finance and banking [Read more]
ALGOMA-MANITOULIN-KAPUSKASING – Sometimes it can be difficult to see that parliament can work in a non-partisan way. Scandals heat up, rhetoric becomes entrenched, and significant differences in viewpoints often lead to heated sittings that make for great news broadcasts, but isn’t really [Read more]
Nuclear Waste Workshops in Spanish, White River, Manitouwadge, Blind River and Elliot Lake NORTH BAY, ON – Several communities in northern Ontario are allowing themselves to be studied as the possible location for an underground repository for all of Canada’s highly radioactive [Read more]
MARATHON, ON – June 4, 2012, Stillwater Canada Inc. provided notification that its Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the proposed Marathon PGM-Cu Project would be submitted to the Marathon Joint Review Panel during the week of June 11th-15th, 2012. A copy of the letter is published [Read more]
MANITOUWADGE, ON – May 24th, OntarioNewsNorth.com Editor Karina Hunter interviews Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing MP Carol Hughes. The two discuss te recent federal budget, CAP program funding cancellation and how they’re ex [Read more]
Federal assistance available under Disaster Financial Assistance Arrangement OTTAWA, ON – Thunder Bay-Superior North MP Bruce Hyer is calling local municipalities to consider requesting emergency assistance from the Province, and on the Ontario Government to declare Thunder Bay‘s [Read more]
OTTAWA, ON – First Nations are being asked to accept changes to Canada’s Environmental Assessment Act on faith alone according to MP, Carol Hughes. The MP contends that negotiations without an even application of appropriate notice highlight the government’s questionable commitment in [Read more]
Today, Shkoday Abinojiiwak Obimiwedoon announced the end of its BIWAASE’AA Program which, for the last eight years, has provided much-needed educational, nutritional, emotional and spiritual support to hundreds of children in need in Thunder Bay. Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development [Read more]
May 9th, 2012 Editor Karina Hunter spoke with the Honourable George Valin, Chair of the 2012 Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for Ontario regarding Manitouwadge Town Council’s interest in being redesignated to the Thunder Bay – Superior North riding (from the [Read more]
MANITOUWADGE, ON – Since OntarioNewsNorth.com last interviewed Mayor MacEachern in March (CLICK HERE for that interview) he has attended Thunder Bay District Health Unit (TBDHU) and Ontario Good Roads Association (OGRA) meetings, council has set a date for their Nuclear Waste Management [Read more]
Copyright ownership of postal codes would harm small biz, NGOs, economy OTTAWA, ON – Bruce Hyer, MP (Thunder Bay-Superior North) is calling on the Harper Government to intervene in a Canada Post lawsuit in order to foster innovation and small business growth in Canada. In what could become a [Read more]
Thursday, April 26, 2012 UNDER the Constitution of Canada, the Federal Electoral Districts are to be reviewed after each decennial (10 years) census to reflect the changes and movements in Canada’s population to which all citizens of Manitouwadge are requested to have their voice heard. At the [Read more]
Will Manitouwadge remain in Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing? Every 10 years, after the census is conducted, the number of electoral districts and their boundaries are revised to reflect population shifts and growth. Your electoral district – which is where you live and vote for your member of [Read more]
The brouhaha that flowed from the Auditor General’s report on April 3rd can be called appropriate when one considers the history of this issue. The out-of-whack estimates for the costing of these fighter jets and the concentrated effort on the part of the, then minority, Conservative government [Read more]
OTTAWA, ON – The Conservative budget has left the provinces in the lurch and put the heat on front line health care workers according to Carol Hughes. Hughes, the MP for Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing, was on her feet in Question Period grilling the government on broken promises by dumping [Read more]
