TERRACE BAY, Ontario, January 31, 2014 – The Mayor and Council of the Township of Terrace Bay signed an agreement today with local pulp mill AV Terrace Bay Inc. (AVTB) that will set a new property assessment for the company for the next three years. AVTB had applied for a property [Read more]
L’Ontario aide à protéger les travailleurs vulnérables L’Ontario est en train de mettre en place de nouvelles règles d’approvisionnement pour s’assurer que les biens qu’il achète proviennent de fabricants qui respectent les lois locales concernant le traitement [Read more]
Ontario Chief Prevention Officer George Gritziotis is “extremely distressed by number of workplace fatalities related to falls.” From childhood onward, every single one of us has fallen at one time or another. Whether it was a tumble from a bicycle or piece of playground equipment, you quickly [Read more]
Expect to See More Eyes on the Road and Fewer Suspended Drivers Says OPP ORILLIA, ON – Driving with a suspended licence is about to get much riskier for drivers as the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) become the first police service in Ontario and one of the first in Canada to target [Read more]
You Need an Outdoors Card before Buying Licence Tags to Fish, Hunt in Ontario Ontario is reminding anglers and hunters to renew their Outdoors Cards. Most people need an Outdoors Card, along with a hunting or fishing licence tag, to hunt or fish in the province. The card is valid for three calendar [Read more]
RED LAKE, ON – Sunday, November 10, 2013 at approximately 6:34 p.m. (CST) the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) was notified that a Bearskin Airlines plane had crashed on the approach to landing at Red Lake airport. The Metro Fairchild 19 passenger plane had departed Sioux Lookout and was [Read more]
SCHREIBER, ON – September 30, 2013 at approximately 4:00 p.m. members of the Schreiber Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) received a report of a break and enter at a residence in the Town of Schreiber. An unknown person had entered a residence and numerous items were stolen. [Read more]
The Northwestern Ontario Immigration Portal along with the Township of Terrace Bay, one of the thirty-two participating communities, attended the Newcomers Expo in Toronto on September 7 & 8. Representatives from Firedog Communications and Terrace Bay made the trip to Toronto and marketed [Read more]
From: David Orazietti, M.P.P. Sault Ste. Marie Conveniently Forgets his NDP Government Hacked $107 million from MNR SAULT STE. MARIE, ON – In a recent media release, NDP MPP John Vanthof, of Timiskaming-Cochrane, misleadingly claimed* that MNR’s internal reorganization will hurt Northern [Read more]
New Fires Three new fires were reported on August 23. Parry Sound 29 is out at 0.5 hectares and is located west of Bear Lake. Timmins 10 is out at 0.1 hectares and is located north of McBride Lake. Wawa 15 is out at 0.1 hectares and is located north of Caramat. Four new fires [Read more]
Chief Celia Echum looking to maximize opportunities from the Kenogami Forest Unit LONGLAC, ON – In October of 2012, Ginoogaming First Nation signed an agreement with AV Birla Terrace Bay to sell pulpwood to their mill from areas that are the band’s traditional territory on the Kenogami [Read more]
The Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) is seeking assistance from resident Ontario black bear hunters to help determine the age structure of harvested bears in the province. MNR strongly encourages successful black bear hunters to submit the two premolar teeth from the harvested bear for analysis [Read more]
Government To Move Forward With New Legislation This Fall From: Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care The Ontario government is taking action to make the province’s cancer system safer for patients, following the release of Dr. Jake Thiessen’s review into Ontario’s cancer drug [Read more]
THUNDER BAY, ON: The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) launched a 56- community, 28-day tour of Ontario with the provincial Debt Clock. The tour aims to draw public attention to the overspending and unsustainable debt at Queen’s Park. “Ontario’s debt grows by almost a billion dollars each [Read more]
Les maires du Nord de l’Ontario réclament un renouvellement étendu de l’Entente sur la forêt boréale canadienne (EFBC) qui ferait intervenir les participants clés, y compris des représentants du gouvernement à l’échelon provincial et local, des collectivités des Premières Nations, [Read more]
