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The Ontario Autism Coalition (OAC) has released its 2025 Community Survey Report, revealing a community in crisis. The report paints a devastating picture of the Ontario Autism Program (OAP) and the realities facing autistic people and their families. Paired with the latest data from the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services (MCCSS), it exposes a system in freefall, one ...

Members of the Nishnawbe Aski Police Service’s Intelligence Unit, with assistance from members of the NAPS Emergency Response Team and SE OPP Chapleau Detachment, executed a search warrant at a residential address in Chapleau, Ont., on Thursday, Oct. 16. As a result of the search police located and seized a quantity of suspected cocaine, fentanyl, and paraphernalia consistent with drug ...

The province’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) has invoked its mandate following an arrest in Blind River. On Sunday, October 19, 2025, at approximately 11:30 a.m., the East Algoma Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) arrested an individual involved in a dispute that resulted in criminal charges. While in custody, the individual required medical attention and was transported by ambulance ...

Tuesday October 21 2025 2023-2027/349 No. 156 This week, the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates (OGGO) will begin hearings into the situation at Canada Post. This committee was responsible for the broad review of the public post office in 2016 and the more recent examination of rural post offices in 2024. The first meeting is scheduled to take ...

  BMI Group, an award-winning company specializing in industrial site revitalization and sustainable development, has officially completed its purchase of the former Espanola pulp and paper mill. The site will operate as Bioveld North Inc., a complement to BMI’s Bioveld Niagara Energy Innovation and Enterprise Park, dedicated to advancing energy and bioeconomy innovation. Since signing the asset purchase agreement in ...

October 17, 2025 Niagara Region, Ontario In a rapidly changing and more dangerous world, Canada is focused on what we can control. We are building our economy with major projects and millions more homes, we are empowering Canadians with lower costs and new opportunities to help you get ahead, and we are protecting our communities and our country. We cannot ...

Friday, October 17 2025 2023-2027/348 No. 155 Yesterday, members of CUPW’s National Executive Board and Negotiating Committees continued their discussions with representatives from Minister Lightbound’s office about the future of the public post office and what it will take to get ratifiable collective agreements. We explained the importance of job security protections in our collective agreements as well as the ...

The Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities (FONOM) and the Northwestern Ontario Municipal Association (NOMA) are expressing their sincere appreciation to the Government of Canada, Premier Doug Ford, and the Province of Ontario for their coordinated efforts to keep the Kapuskasing Paper facility operating. This joint support provides much-needed stability to families, workers, and businesses across Northeastern Ontario. The decision ensures ...

Oct 17, 2025 at 22:00 Unifor is calling for immediate action from all levels of government following today’s announcement that Interfor is shutting down its Ear Falls, Ont., sawmill indefinitely. “We’re well beyond warning signs in the forestry sector and are now seeing widespread job loss in response to the economic warfare waged by the United States,” said Unifor National ...

Oct 17, 2025 at 21:09 Interfor Corporation  announced today (October 17, 2025) revised operating plans for the fourth quarter of 2025. Due to persistently weak market conditions and ongoing economic uncertainty, Interfor will further temporarily reduce lumber production across its operations in British Columbia, Ontario, the US Pacific Northwest and the US South. These curtailments are expected to reduce lumber ...

NDP Shadow Minister for Natural Resources and Forestry MPP Guy Bourgouin (Mushkegowuk – James Bay) and NDP Shadow Minister for Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade MPP Catherine Fife (Waterloo) released the following statement after the Trump administration levied an additional 10% duty on Canadian softwood, raising total tariffs to 45% – the highest level since the dispute began and higher than ...

Four people died in separate collisions on Ontario Provincial Police (OPP)-patrolled roads during the Thanksgiving long weekend, as the OPP joined Canadian policing partners for Operation Impact. The OPP’s commitment to keeping roads safe was reflected in the more than 8,800 traffic charges they laid across the province throughout the weekend. Officers worked around the clock, targeting road behaviours that ...

On October 14, 2025, detectives with Investigation Services charged 40-year-old Eric Mearow with second degree murder. Around 10:40 a.m. on October 8, 2025, 911 Communicators received a report of the sudden death of a 25-year-old person in custody at the Algoma Treatment and Remand Centre (ATRC). An investigation revealed the accused started a verbal altercation with the victim before punching ...

Police are seeking the public’s assistance in identifying the owner/driver of a white Ram 1500, involved in a fail to remain collision. On Friday October 10, 2025, at approximately 3:30 p.m., the Nipissing West (Sudbury) Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded to a three-vehicle collision on Highway 17, near Second Avenue (Coniston), Sudbury The driver of the white ...

Since February 2020, leaders and decision-makers across Northern Ontario have come together annually to discuss how to make the region more welcoming to newcomers. Recurring themes of attraction, settlement, reconciliation, and anti-racism have shaped an ongoing conversation about how to ensure long-term population growth and prosperity across the north. Magnetic North 2025 will be hosted in-person at Science North in ...