Province Increasing Travel Options in Underserved Areas Ontario is making it easier and more convenient for people to get where they need to go by improving transportation services within and between communities across Northern Ontario. Michael Gravelle, Minister of Northern Development and Mines, [Read more]
TORONTO, ON – The Ontario NDP has launched a Safe Northern Roads Petition (click image below to view petition on NDP site), calling on the government ensure that northern roads and infrastructure are safe for drivers. Following the failure of the Nipigon River Bridge which severed the [Read more]
Ontario is making travel easier and safer across Northern Ontario by investing $560 million in highway infrastructure projects in 2015-16 through the Northern Highways Program. As the construction season wraps up, Northern Highway Program projects are adding passing lanes, resurfacing roads, [Read more]
OTTAWA, ON – The agreement that will have Railmark Canada take control of passenger services on the Algoma-Central-Railway has great potential to keep passenger trains running for years, according to Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing MP, Carol Hughes. “This is a positive development, but it is [Read more]
2015 Seasonal Snowmobile Trail Permit Offers 30% Savings if Purchased on or before November 1 BARRIE, ON – Last year, the Old Farmer’s Almanac forecast a snowy, cold winter for Ontario and it was right. Now, with the Old Farmer’s Almanac predicting another good, old-fashioned Ontario winter [Read more]
Algoma Country and Tourism Thunder Bay were recognized at the Annual Ontario Tourism Summit in Toronto. They were awarded Tourism Marketing Partnership Award for Ride Lake Superior from the Ontario Tourism Marketing Partnership Corporation. The Ride Lake Superior program brought together [Read more]
Travellers on Highway 17 may see a special visitor to our region while travelling today and tomorrow. Kent Rathwell, President of Sun Country Highway is currently driving the Northshore leg of a cross Canada adventure commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the opening of the Trans Canada Highway [Read more]
Travel Advisory THUNDER BAY, ON – The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) would like to advise that current environmental conditions are resulting in near white-out conditions inThunder Bay and areas east. Sections of highways # 11 and #11/17 have been closed over the last six hours and conditions [Read more]
We’ve arrived in Thunder Bay (myself, Lloyd & Emeraude and Mathew, a friend of Lloyd’s/the family) and we are finally in our room at the Best Western Nor’ Wester. The kids are all in bed and I was wandering to see if there are any events coinciding with our weekend in [Read more]
I just love the North. I love my hometown of Manitouwadge to where I have returned to live as an adult, with my children. I love the towns nearby which each have their own unique qualities… Travelling to Red Rock this week with Emeraude I couldn’t help being in awe. The fall colours [Read more]
