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C’est merveilleux de pouvoir sortir encore et encore après avoir été enfermé pendant si longtemps, même après la fin de l’hiver. Les gens sont ravis de pouvoir enfin profiter des occasions de sortir et de parler à des gens qu’ils ont été contraints d’éviter à cause de l’épidémie de COVID-19. La bonne nouvelle est que, en général, les gens continuent ...

The Ontario government has released a new online tool that provides the people of Ontario and businesses with information about highway projects in their communities, including the status of projects that are already underway and major construction projects slated for the future. The new online tool is part of the government’s plan to keep highways safe and reliable, while supporting ...

Le gouvernement de l’Ontario a lancé un nouvel outil en ligne qui fournit à la population de l’Ontario et aux entreprises de l’information sur les projets routiers dans leurs collectivités, y compris sur l’état d’avancement des projets déjà en cours et les grands projets de construction qui doivent avoir lieu dans l’avenir. Le nouvel outil en ligne fait partie du ...

On July 17, 2020 at approximately 2:30 am members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) North East Region Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU), Emergency Response Team (ERT) and Canine Unit executed a Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA) search warrant at a residence located on Batchewana First Nation.   Once complete, officers had seized a quantity of drugs suspected to ...

A commercial sex trade organization was dismantled on July 14, 2020 by the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Anti-Human Trafficking Investigation Coordination Team, the Canadian Border Services Agency, Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada and 12 Ontario police services. Seven persons have been charged with 32 criminal offences during the joint investigation, named Project Crediton. This commercial sex trade ...

On July 16, 2020 members of the Sault Ste. Marie Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a traffic complaint east of Sault Ste. Marie with the vehicle continuing in an easterly direction. The vehicle was travelling at a high rate of speed and was not stopping at red traffic lights.   Officers located the vehicle and as a ...

Jeff Burch MPP (Niagara Centre), the Official Opposition NDP’s critic for Municipal Affairs, has issued a statement following the federal government’s announcement of a Safe Restart agreement which includes targeted funding for municipalities:   “The funding in this agreement is a necessary first step to address the ongoing financial crisis facing Ontario’s municipalities. $2 billion in federal funding allows municipalities ...

Over the last two weeks, the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) in the three communities of Kenora, Dryden and Fort Frances have responded to a number of drug overdoses; one being fatal.   The drug used has been described to police as “yellow down” or “purple down” and is believed to contain fentanyl. Fentanyl is an extremely potent opioid and is approximately ...

At 3:27 p.m. July 16, 2020, Marathon OPP received a call regarding a Motor Vehicle Collision (MVC) on Highway 17 west of Marathon near Wolf Camp Lake. The MV had been travelling eastbound and made contact with the eastbound shoulder. The driver over corrected and began to serve then entered the east bound ditch, flipped and rolled coming in contact ...

Timmins received funding in an announcement yesterday for improvements to their public transit infrastructure. Terry Sheehan, Member of Parliament for Sault Ste. Marie, on behalf of the Honourable Catherine McKenna, Minister of Infrastructure and Communities; the Honourable Dave Smith, Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Energy, Northern Development and Mines and Indigenous Affairs and Member of Provincial Parliament for Peterborough-Kawartha ...

NDP Leader Andrea Horwath released the following statement in response to Doug Ford’s long-term care announcement, in which he commits to altering the funding formula for long-term care construction:   “The announcement by Premier Doug Ford means the for-profit corporations that have failed seniors for years could get even more public money. Today feels like a re-run of years of ...

The Ontario government announced a redesigned funding model that will lead to the building of additional, modern long-term care homes providing seniors with the quality care they deserve. This new approach will help break down historic barriers and accelerate the construction of urgently needed long-term care projects, and new and redeveloped beds. Over the next five years, the government is ...

Le gouvernement de l’Ontario a annoncé un nouveau modèle de financement pour le secteur des soins de longue durée qui permettra la construction de nouveaux foyers modernes ou les aînés de l’Ontario recevront les soins de qualité qu’ils méritent. Cette nouvelle approche contribuera à éliminer les obstacles hérités du passé, à accélérer les travaux pour les projets urgents, à aménager ...

On July 13, 2020, at approximately 10:30 a.m., members of the East Algoma Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were called to a disturbance at a business on Main Street in Thessalon.   There was an altercation between two people while inside the store. One person was upset at another from something that occurred in the past and proceeding to yell obscenities at ...

As the Ford government sits on its hands instead of taking action to ensure a full return to schools in September, the Ontario NDP is putting forward an emergency action plan that would help get kids safely back to class five days a week in the fall and work for parents and teachers. That plan, captured in a motion tabled ...