Province Supporting NBCUniversal Production to Boost Local Economy Ontario is helping strengthen and diversify the economy and create good jobs for people in the North by supporting the rapidly-growing television production sector. Michael Gravelle, Minister of Northern Development and Mines, made [Read more]
Above: Trailer for ‘Born to be Blue’ It’s an exciting time for film production in Northern Ontario. Movies filmed in Thunder Bay, Sudbury, and throughout the North are screening at the top international film festivals including the Toronto International Film Festival and the Cannes [Read more]
Last week I began my column by mentioning the fascinating art of sleight of hand. Those of you who are fascinated by observing the sleight of hand magic tricks have been exposed to a real treat on the nightly news lately; watching the Liberal masters of this art. The thing is, we all know that [Read more]
Province Ensuring Children and Students are Safe at School Ontario is protecting children and students by re-introducing legislation that would make the disciplinary process for the province’s educators more clear and transparent.If passed, the Protecting Students Act and subsequent [Read more]
Province Promoting its Mining Sector and Attracting Investment Ontario is kicking off the 2016 Mines and Money Americas forum, one of world’s largest investment forums devoted to the mineral sector, today in Toronto. The Mines and Money forum attracts investors, financiers, brokers and mining [Read more]
Wynne government risked public safety by opening Nipigon River bridge despite knowing it had structural problems: NDP QUEEN’s PARK, ON – Today during Question Period, Michael Mantha, NDP northern development critic, and MPP for Algoma-Manitoulin, demanded answers from the Wynne government [Read more]
ORDRE DU JOUR / Agenda Séance régulière du conseil qui aura lieu à 18 h 30, le 27 septembre 2016 Regular Council meeting scheduled for September 27, 2016 at 6:30 p.m. (Modification au plan officiel et règlement de zonage – Réunion de planification d’utilisation des terres) [Read more]
When political news breaks on a Friday afternoon, it usually isn’t for good-news stories. More often this is when a government will make embarrassing admissions in an attempt to bury stories as people are focused on the weekend ahead. Of course, there can always be exceptions, and that was [Read more]
We are hearing about the end of truth in politics, mostly as a by-product of the American Presidential race, but the use of flimsy facts and general opinion to support a position is nothing new. What is newer is the way that these ‘facts’ can be perpetuated on the internet and seem to take on [Read more]
by Brennain Lloyd, Northwatch OTTAWA, ON – For north of Superior communities involved in the Nuclear Waste Management Organization’s “Learn More” program, revisions to the design and layout of the NWMO’s nuclear waste burial plans might mean it’s more a case of “learn again” as [Read more]
It’s time to brush the dust from my shoes gathered at all of the festivals, pow wows events, celebrations and meetings that I attended over the summer and head back to the Legislature. After all the conversations and meetings I had with many constituents this summer, clearly there is a lot of [Read more]
QUEEN’S PARK, ON – Nickel Belt MPP France Gélinas called on the Wynne government to stop ignoring the ongoing environmental disaster in Gogama and order CN to remove all of the oil from the water. “The people of Mattagami First Nation and Gogama were promised that their natural environment [Read more]
September 13, 2016 RE: MEDIA RELEASE – ALGOMA PASSENGER TRAIN SERVICE Wachay. The Algoma Passenger Train Working Group recently received a letter from the Honourable Marc Garneau, Minister of Transport, stating that the remote passenger subsidy would not be continuing between Sault Ste. Marie [Read more]
Northern Policy Institute is pleased to announce the agenda for the upcoming Basic Income Guarantee Conference October 5-6th in Sudbury, ON. The BIG conference agenda is designed to generate a balanced, inclusive conversation on the idea of a basic income guarantee pilot in Ontario. The day and a [Read more]
In the same way that September marks a return to school, it also marks the return of parliament. In a few weeks MPs will return to Ottawa to resume debate on numerous issues. Some of these will pop up daily and can’t truly be foreseen, but others have been brewing over the summer – or [Read more]
