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Hughes Critisizes Conservative Gov’t Spending

Hughes Critisizes Conservative Gov’t Spending

Debate Over Government Waste Should Start With Biggest Offences This past week was a turbulent one in Canadian politics as Parliament opened and the gun registry came to dominate all debate. Divisions across Canada were portrayed in the mainstream media as a rural/urban divide, with some outlets [Read more]

Investments in Huron Central Railway

Investments in Huron Central Railway

Algoma-Manitoulin MPP Mike Brown GOVERNMENTS OF ONTARIO AND CANADA INVEST IN HURON CENTRAL RAILWAY Sault Ste. Marie, ON – Mike Brown, MPP, Algoma-Manitoulin, is pleased that the Government of Canada has matched the previously-announced Provincial share of $15 million by its investment today in [Read more]

West Region Forest Fire Update

West Region Forest Fire Update

West Fire Region September 24, 2010 Next update scheduled for October 1 There have been no new fires in the West Fire Region since the last update on September 17. There are no fires burning in Ontario. The fire hazard remains low for the province. The Ministry of Natural Resources Aviation, Forest [Read more]

FINAL: 2010 East Fire Region Update

FINAL: 2010 East Fire Region Update

East Fire Region September 24, 2010 This is the last media advisory for the East Fire Region. There have been no new fires in the East Fire Region since Friday September 17. The fire hazard remains low. The 2010 fire season started early, Sudbury Fire 01 occurred March 15 on Manitoulin Island. This [Read more]

Cutting-Edge Equipment For Ontario Colleges

Cutting-Edge Equipment For Ontario Colleges

September 24, 2010 2:00 PM McGuinty Government Investment Gives Students Tools To Succeed, Get Jobs Students at Ontario colleges are using the latest technology and equipment to train for tomorrow’s high skill jobs. The province is investing in upgrading learning resources at its 24 colleges. [Read more]

Ontario Amber Alert & Mac’s Conv. Stores Team Up

Ontario Amber Alert & Mac’s Conv. Stores Team Up

 **From the Editor: Though there is a ‘Mac’s Convenience Store’ in Marathon, their LCD screen is, unfortuntately, not currently functioning and when contacted, one of the owner’s commented that they were unsure of when it would be back online.  If such a time comes, OntarioNewsNorth.com [Read more]

Drugs Seized at Thunder Bay International Airport

Drugs Seized at Thunder Bay International Airport

FROM/DE:      Ontario Provincial Police-Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau, Drug Enforcement Unit             DATE: September 23, 2010         $12,000 in drugs seized by Thunder Bay law enforcement team Thunder Bay, ON – On the 17th of September 2010 Drug Enforcement Offices [Read more]

Laid-Off Ontarians Graduating Into Second Careers

Laid-Off Ontarians Graduating Into Second Careers

Rigo Pastora, 2nd Career Student September 23, 2010 12:15 PM McGuinty Government Building A Highly Skilled And Educated Workforce A survey of Second Career students shows that 93 per cent of students have graduated, and over 60 per cent have found jobs within an average of three months. Second [Read more]

NEW DEMOCRAT VOTES TO END DIVISIVE POLITICS

NEW DEMOCRAT VOTES TO END DIVISIVE POLITICS

Time to make gun laws that make sense for more Canadians: Hughes OTTAWA, ON – Carol Hughes is saying that tonight’s defeat of bill C-391 makes it even more important to work toward a solution that makes sense to more Canadians. “I have spoken with people right across [Read more]

CRA Website Changes

CRA Website Changes

Provided by the Marathon & District Chamber of Commerce; published courtesy of OntarioNewsNorth.com Changes to the Canada Revenue Agency Website   On October 4, 2010, the CRA will replace the existing Government of Canada epass system with a new CRA user ID and password service.  This new [Read more]

Far North Act Passes

Far North Act Passes

September 23, 2010 1:30 PM McGuinty Government Committed To Economic Development And Environmental Protection Ontario has made significant strides in economic development and environmental protection in the Far North with the passage of the Far North Act, 2010. A first in Ontario history, First [Read more]

High Heating a Hot Topic for Hughes

High Heating a Hot Topic for Hughes

HST MAKES FUEL PRICES EVEN HIGHER FOR NORTHERN ONTARIO OTTAWA, ON – On the first day of Autumn, with furnaces set to roar into action across Northern Ontario, Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing MP Caro Hughes is asking why the Conservative government made the cost of heating fuel even more expensive. [Read more]

911 Problems to East

911 Problems to East

911 SERVICE DOWN HIGHWAY 101 WAWA, ON – The OPP has been notified that due to a Bell Canada telephone outage east of Wawa, 911 service is presently out of service in the Hawk Junction, Missinaibi and Lochalsh areas.   The OPP are increasing patrols in these areas during the outage and Bell [Read more]

INTERNATIONAL PLOWING MATCH

INTERNATIONAL PLOWING MATCH

Queen’s Park Report Mike Brown, MPP Algoma-Manitoulin INTERNATIONAL PLOWING MATCH   With the warm summer months now coming to an end it is time for us all to enjoy the cooler days, beautiful colours and the wonderful traditions of the Fall season.  One such tradition is the much anticipated [Read more]

Ontario Families Benefit From Justice Improvements

Ontario Families Benefit From Justice Improvements

September 23, 2010 10:30 AM McGuinty Government Expands Program To Find Resolutions Thousands more families will benefit from improvements to Ontario’s family courts. The province’s Mandatory Information Program is being expanded from Brampton and Milton to the 17 Family Court branches [Read more]

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