Northern Ontario

Ontario Greens Leader Mike Schreiner released the following statement in response to worsening wildfires and air quality across the province: “Thank you to first responders, as thousands of people are forced to evacuate their homes and communities. The Ford government can no longer ignore the very real and dangerous impacts of the climate crisis. Highways across the Northwest are shut ...

Today, MPP Ted Hsu, Ontario Liberal Critic for Rural Affairs, Natural Resources, Mining & Forestry, Mary-Margaret McMahon, Ontario Liberal Critic for Emergency Management, Environment & Climate, and Stephanie Smyth, Ontario Liberal Critic for Northern Affairs issued the following statement on the devastating forest fires in Ontario’s North. As of July 15, there are 185 active wildland fires across Northern Ontario, ...

The wildfire situation in Northern Ontario is rapidly changing. People across Thunder Bay—Superior North are feeling anxious, and some have lost their homes, property, and businesses. As your Member of Parliament, I wanted to give you a quick rundown of the fire response operations and give residents accurate information to keep you and your family safe. My team and I ...

As wildfires sweep through Northern Ontario, taking many First Nations and leaving families to evacuate unprecedently, NDP MPPs Sol Mamakwa (Kiiwetinoong) and Lise Vaugeois (Thunder Bay – Superior North) released the following statement: “What we are witnessing right now is devastating,” said MPP Mamakwa. “An entire First Nation community has been erased because of this disaster. With wildfires closing highways ...

Intervenors in the federal assessment of a nuclear waste transportation and burial plan are saying that the federal government is in disarray over the assessment of nuclear projects. This follows the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada’s release, last week, of the Tailored Impact Statement Guidelines for the Nuclear Waste Management Organization’s (NWMO’s) proposed deep geological repository for nuclear fuel waste. ...

On Saturday, July 11, 2026, at approximately 7:30 a.m., members of the Thunder Bay Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) along with emergency medical services responded to a report of a fatal motorcycle collision on Highway 11-17 near Highway 527. A stretch of Highway 11-17 between Highway 527 and MacGregor Road was closed for several hours as officers and ...

Police seized Fentanyl and Crystal Methamphetamine following the search of a Constance Lake First Nation home Tuesday. Members of the Nishnawbe Aski Police Service Intelligence Unit, with support from the NAPS Emergency Response Team and the OPP Community Street Crime Unit, executed a search warrant in the morning hours of Tuesday, July 7, at a residential address in Constance Lake ...

UPDATE (5:30 p.m.): The shelter-in-place in M’Chigeeng First Nation near the area of Mnaawnkwad Drive and Riverside Drive has been lifted. There is no risk to public safety and members of the public may resume their regular activities. The investigation remains ongoing. The OPP along with UCCM Anishnaabe Police are thanking the public for their cooperation and understanding. MISE À ...

Le gouvernement de l’Ontario accorde à la ville de Thunder Bay une somme de 709 280 $ dans le cadre du troisième cycle du Fonds pour l’accélération de la construction, qui offre un financement aux municipalités atteignant au moins 80 % de leurs objectifs provinciaux en matière de logement. En 2025, Thunder Bay a mis en chantier 243 nouveaux logements, dépassant ainsi son objectif annuel ...

The Ontario government is rewarding the City of Thunder Bay with $709,280 through the third round of the Building Faster Fund, which provides funding to municipalities that achieve at least 80 per cent of their provincially designated housing targets. In 2025, Thunder Bay broke ground on 243 new homes, exceeding its annual target by 10 per cent. The funding will help the City of Thunder ...

A proposed pipeline announced by Ontario Premier Doug Ford yesterday is getting a thumbs down from environment and climate groups in northern Ontario, who frame it as being “all risk and no rewards” for northern Ontario. The 3,300 km pipeline will slice across northern Ontario, following a route that appears – based on the very generalized route map released to ...

Two Greater Toronto Area (GTA) residents are facing charges following the seizure of more than 1.5 kg of illicit drugs in connection with a drug trafficking investigation in Thunder Bay. In June 2026, the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP)-led Provincial Guns and Gangs Enforcement Team (PGNG), including members from the Thunder Bay Police Service (TBPS) and Nishnawbe Aski Police Service (NAPS), ...

Today, July 6, 2026, Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith unveiled the proposed route for the Northern Shield Energy Corridor, a proposed crude oil pipeline and energy corridor that would strengthen Canada’s energy security by bringing oil along a 3,300-kilometre primary route from Hardisty, Alberta, to Sarnia, Ontario. This historic nation-building project would be built exclusively through ...

Critics from civil society organizations and academia are calling out the Nuclear Energy Strategy for Canada released by the Federal Government as a cash cow for the nuclear industry and a hubris-driven attempt to grab world “energy superpower” status based on past-Century technology. The Strategy, released on June 22, is an ambitious agenda to spend public funds on new nuclear ...

We the Nuclear Free North is expressing strong support for Grand Council Treaty #3’s “Open Letter Invitation to the Prime Minister of Canada for Nation-to-Nation Cooperation Regarding Canada’s Proposed NWMO DGR Designation Under the Building Canada Act” issued earlier Monday. “Ogichidaa Kavanaugh has clearly expressed the concerns of so many of us, Indigenous and non-Indigenous”, commented Bill Tenniscoe, a member of the ...