THUNDER BAY, ON – The 30th annual Northwestern Ontario Regional Conference will be held on Thursday, September 27th & Friday, September 28th at the Victoria Inn in Thunder Bay. The event will bring together municipal leaders, business representatives and economic development practitioners [Read more]
Gas prices went through the roof in the last ten days. In the north we need no lessons about the fickle nature of gas pricing and the havoc it plays on household budgets. This might be a little easier to take if we were burning Canadian fuel that had been domestically refined as part of [Read more]
The township of Manitouwadge is updating its Official Plan, a policy document adopted by Council it describes as “determining how to manage land and resources to ensure a healthy and vibrant community”. Public input is an important part of the Official Plan review and update process and [Read more]
MANITOUWADGE, ON – At the September 12th Regular Council Meeting Golf Clubhouse Acting Manager Margaret Hartling presented a report to council which included details of the Clubhouse’s current over budget situation (i.e. in debt) and recommendations on how to avoid the Clubhouse going further [Read more]
The Secretariat for the Joint Panel reviewing the proposed Marathon Platinum Group Metals and Copper Mine project will be holding information sessions on the review process in communities in the project area starting the week of September 24, 2012 as follows: Date /Time Location Tuesday September [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]
ALGOMA-MANITOULIN, ON – The Ontario legislature has only been back a couple of weeks and already we’ve seen some significant changes. On Thursday September 6,th the NDP blocked a Liberal majority with an unprecedented win in the Kitchener-Waterloo by-election. Premier McGuinty engineered [Read more]
The first Local Forest Management Corporation (Nawiinginokiima Forest Management Corporation of NFMC) has been established to manage an area that is proposed to comprise five current management units – Nagagami, Big Pic, Pic River Ojibway, Black River and White River Forests. The seven [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]
Hughes urges organizations to apply before deadline ELLIOT LAKE, ON – Community-based projects looking to improve accessibility, remove barriers, and enable Canadians with disabilities to participate in and contribute to their communities have until October 5th to make an application to the [Read more]
You don’t have to think back that far to remember Labour Days when the attitude towards the hard working people who make up the bulk of our economic well being was more positive. Now we have a prolonged international recession and a government that is decidedly anti-union as the new normal. [Read more]
The hard work of many people was recognized on Friday in Terrace Bay with a Grand Celebration of the $250 million investment by the Aditya Birla Group and creation of AV Terrace Bay Inc. at the local pulp mill. Many politicians from throughout the region were on hand and over 300 people were in [Read more]
On August 24th, Terrace Bay held its annual Lighthouse Street Festival in the middle of its recently revitalized downtown. The day’s festivities started off on a high note with the grand celebration of the $250 million Aditya Birla Group investment and creation of AV Terrace Bay Inc. The [Read more]
WHITE RIVER, ON – Saturday, August 18th interested residents gathered at at 200 B Elgin Street for the grand opening of the Northern Visions Art Studio a project which has been in development for more than 2 years. Dignitaries including Algoma-Manitoulin MPP Michael Mantha, [Read more]
TORONTO, ON – Debut Diamonds Inc. (the “Company” or “Debut”), (CNSX: DDI), is very pleased to announce that it has concluded an Exploration Agreement with the Aroland First Nation (“Aroland”) in connection with the Company’s Nakina diamond [Read more]
