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]
Thunder Bay District Crime Stoppers and the Ontario Provincial Police are asking for your help in solving a mischief that occurred in the later part of September 2015 in the First Nation Territory of Long Lake 58. Sometime between September 14th and 27th unknown persons destroyed a statue that sat [Read more]
Ontario is taking further action to protect communities from the significant social, economic and ecological impacts of invasive species by passing the Invasive Species Act. November 3rd, the Act received Royal Assent, following its passage in the Legislature on October 21, 2015. This legislation [Read more]
Given the recent media coverage on In-Car Cameras (ICCs), often referred to as “Dash Cams,” I want to clarify some of the misinformation that was conveyed in relation to the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP). In 2004, the OPP installed approximately 80 cameras in front-line police vehicles as [Read more]
MANITOUWADGE, ON – Tuesday, November 11th Royal Canadian Legion Branch 242 Sergeant at Arms Ray Gascon led a colour guard including Manitouwadge Fire Chief Owen Cranney and legionnaires, William (Bill) Warren, Cynthia Warren, and Excelda Cormie in the annual Remembrance Day Parade. In [Read more]
Sugar Zone Deposit Bulk Sample Update TORONTO, ON – November 10, 2015 – HARTE GOLD CORP. (“Harte Gold”) (TSX: HRT / Frankfurt (FSE: H4O) announced today that the first blast to cut the Portal has been completed on October 30, 2015 and underground ramp development is currently underway. [Read more]
GREENSTONE, ON – Area dignitaries and citizens were on hand today (Nov.12.2015) to celebrate the official Grand Opening of the Beardmore Multi-Purpose Centre. The building houses a community Library, Health Centre, Community Room, and a Municipal Office. “Congratulations to Greenstone and [Read more]
Thunder Bay and Region to receive over $1,980,000 in gas tax funding Ontario’s Gas Tax Program is helping people in Thunder Bay and the Region get out of their cars and onto public transit. For the 12th consecutive year, Ontario is providing support to Thunder Bay, Schreiber / Terrace Bay [Read more]
The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair features more than one million square feet of displays and competition facilities, attracting approximately 300,000 visitors and thousands of students each year. Billed as Canada’s largest indoor agricultural fair, the annual 10-day event, which runs [Read more]
MARATHON ON –Regarding the seizure on November 1st, 2015 of approximately 15kg of raw cannabis marijuana as well as a large amount of edible marijuana products, an estimated street value of $900,000 has been calculated. The accused, Steven CHURCHILL, a 50 year old male from Surrey, BC. was [Read more]
SCHREIBER, ON – Pulp mill owner AV Terrace Bay Inc. pleaded guilty to seven offences and was fined $250,000 for failing to ensure that effluent discharge and testing limits were maintained, contrary to the Environmental Protection Act (EPA). AV Terrace Bay Inc. owns and operates a pulp [Read more]
C.O.W. – Arson THUNDER BAY, ON – The Thunder Bay Police Service and Thunder Bay District Crime Stoppers are looking for the public to help identify the person responsible for arson earlier this fall. The video below shows a male walking around the rear parking area of Tractor Trailer [Read more]
Province Committed to Sustainable Black Bear Management Ontario is proposing an expanded spring bear hunting pilot program to gather further information to assess concerns voiced by northern communities about human-bear conflicts, and to support economic growth and tourism in northern Ontario. [Read more]
THUNDER BAY, ON, October 29, 2015: North Star Air announced today that they have signed a strategic business agreement with North Spirit Lake First Nation. North Spirit Lake has now joined with the other partners that include Muskrat Dam, Sachigo Lake, Cat Lake, Deer Lake, Neskantaga, Kashechewan, [Read more]
THUNDER BAY, ON – Further to the Your Vote Matters! Campaign launched on October 14, 2015, the Matawa Chiefs today expressed their encouragement for the increased Indigenous voter turn-out in the five (5) ridings of in the Matawa region during the October 19, 2015 federal election. “The [Read more]
