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October 20, 2017 Premier Kathleen Wynne Room 281, Main Legislative Building, Queen’s Park Toronto, Ontario M7A 1A1 Dear Premier: College faculty and over 500,000 Ontario students are disappointed by your inaction as we approach the second week of the labour dispute at colleges throughout the province. Students and their families remain in limbo, wondering if their semester will be condensed ...

Oct 19, 2017 @ 11:49 October 19, 2017 Premier Kathleen Wynne released the following statement today on the province’s support for Ontario cities bidding for Amazon’s second headquarters (HQ2): “Ontario is widely considered a strong contender for Amazon’s second global headquarters and it is not hard to see why. We have one of the world’s most talented, diverse workforces — ...

Oct 19, 2017 @ 08:30 On Wednesday, October 18, 2017, at approximately 10:10 a.m. members of the Marathon Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a vehicle collision east of Marathon on Highway 17, just east of White Lake Narrows. An eastbound tractor-trailer failed to negotiate a corner and left the roadway colliding with rocks and coming to rest in the ...

Oct 19, 2017 @ 06:32 NDP Health critic France Gélinas says the Wynne Liberals are failing up to 3 million Ontarians by failing to provide dental care for low-income adults.   “Community health centres know that in Ontario today up to three million people cannot get the dental care that they need. Why? Because they cannot afford to pay for ...

Oct 19, 2017 @ 05:23 It’s been no secret that the Northern Ontario Party has been advocating for greater independence and control over Northern Ontario affairs. This is especially true when it comes to Northern Ontario’s abundance of natural resources. Currently, Northerners have little to no say on how our mineral resources are handed out to multinational corporations, how our lakes ...

Oct 18, 2017 @ 11:28 In the wake of an explosive report from the Auditor General showing that Ontario families will pay an extra $4 billion for Kathleen Wynne’s expensive hydro scheme, Ontario PC Leader Patrick Brown called on Ontario’s Energy Minister to resign. “The Auditor General’s report was a scathing indictment of Liberal political corruption and their contempt for ...

Oct 18, 2017 @ 09:40 Dan Nystedt captioned the video, “Captured this footage by happenstance while shooting some scenics in Northern Ontario. Was excited by the moose sighting, as I was leaving something unexpected took place. Shot in 4K with Phantom 4 Pro.”  

Oct 16, 2017 @ 23:32 Members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Marine and Trails Unit (MTU) have charged a Kenora man following a marine incident on Lake of the Woods.   On Friday, October 13, 2017 shortly before 5:30 pm, police received a call of a vessel operating at a high rate of speed in the area of Keewatin ...

Oct 16, 2017 @ 22:47 Census results are proving what many Canadians already understood, poverty rates among seniors have been climbing in Canada and fewer people are prepared to retire.  With those statistics readily available one has to wonder why the government would pursue a penny-pinching exercise that punished a select group of seniors, but that is exactly what happened ...

Oct 16, 2017 @ 16:51 During question period Monday, Ontario NDP Energy critic and Toronto—Danforth MPP Peter Tabuns demanded that the $2.6 billion tax benefit given to Hydro One by the government must result in lower electricity costs for Ontario families and businesses, not higher profits for private investors. That’s following an announcement by Hydro One that it will challenge ...

Oct 16, 2017 @ 16:30 Premier Kathleen Wynne released the following statement today on NAFTA, the auto sector, and Ontario manufacturing: “Today I had the chance to visit Weber Manufacturing Technologies, one of hundreds of Ontario businesses that play an integral role in North America’s automotive supply chain. The auto sector is a critically important part of Ontario’s economy. Today’s visit ...

Oct 13, 2017 @ 12:37 Canadian National Railway Co. had appealed the order to pay $530,000 of the $620,000 bill levied by Ontario’s Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change covered expenses from the aftermath of the two 2015 train derailments near Gogama. CN argued the costs of government salaries, laboratories and administration were unreasonable or beyond the authority of the province ...

Oct 11, 2017 @ 23:27 Oshawa NDP MPP Jennifer French released the following statement in response to the Sears Canada proposal to close all Canadian stores and lay off approximately 12,000 employees: “The news of Sears Canada’s closure is the latest in a series of blows to workers and pensioners at Sears Canada. Thousands of families find themselves out of ...

Oct 10, 2017 @ 09:49 À la Fédération des municipalités du Nord de l’Ontario (FMNO) on se dit déçu de la décision de TransCanada, rendue publique le 5 octobre 2017, d’annuler le projet d’oléoduc Énergie Est.   Le projet d’oléoduc Énergie Est, qui comprenait la conversion d’environ 3000 kilomètres de pipeline et l’ajout de 1500 kilomètres de nouveau pipeline, aurait ...

Oct 10, 2017 @ 09:47 The Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities (FONOM) is disappointed with the decision to cancel the proposed Energy East pipeline project as announced on October 5, 2017 by TransCanada.   The proposed Energy East project, which included approximately 3,000 kilometres of existing pipeline to be converted and 1,500 kilometres of new pipeline, would have had significant ...