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Final Drives Canada, a Thunder Bay-based international distribution company, is expanding and relocating to Dawson Road thanks to $78,000 given from the Ontario government. The funds, which are made possible through the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation (NOHFC), are part of the province’s spending aimed at providing northern businesses the […]

Neebing’s fire chief is urging the province to add medical first responders to a list of crew members eligible for compensation should they become ill with cancer following exposure to carcinogenic materials at emergency scenes. In a letter last month to various provincial agencies, including the Workplace Safety and Insurance […]

THUNDER BAY – “Don’t defund our education. This is class discrimination.” That chant could be heard over and over as more than 25 students in grades 11 and 12 marched to MPP Kevin Holland’s office on James Street on Friday morning. Thunder Bay high school students in the south end, […]

NORTHERN ONTARIO—Across much of Northern Ontario, the demographic equation has quietly flipped. In town after town, the math of life itself has turned upside down: more funerals than births, more grey hair than diapers. Population growth, once driven by families putting down roots, now depends increasingly on newcomers arriving from […]

MARATHON — The federal government should improve the Trans-Canada through northern Ontario as part of committed military spending. That’s according to the Northwestern Ontario Municipal Association, the organization that represents and lobbies for 37 municipalities in the Northwest. Its president, Rick Dumas, sent a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney […]