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The Ontario Government is investing in an Indigenous organization in order to help them in their goal of delivering training, mentorship and professional networks for First Natio economic development officers and entrepreneurs. The $8 million in funding from the government was announced this morning by Ontario’s Minister of Indigenous Affairs […]

BINGWI NEYAASHI ANISHINAABEK — The only Indigenous leader from Ontario on a new council expected to provide input to large-scale national development projects says it’s an opportunity to make a difference. JP Gladu, who is from Bingwi Neyaashi Anishinaabek or Sandpoint First Nation, is one of 11 Indigenous leaders recently […]

LAC SEUL — A research and information-sharing project scheduled to run over the next three years aims to help re-establish a traditional crop in several regions in Ontario. Martha Dowsley, a professor in Lakehead University’s departments of anthropology and geography and the environment, recently received $50,000 from the province’s Ontario […]

On the evening of Thursday, September 11, the skies opened up and unleashed a heavy downpour over a narrow band of southeastern Manitoba, prompting flash floods. Overnight Niverville saw 99 millimetres of precipitation. Just to the southeast, Steinbach received about 142 millimetres. The slow-moving system was characterized by a thin […]

FireCon 2025 is underway in Thunder Bay this week as more than 170 civic and volunteer firefighters from across the province have come to train in fire service procedures. Thursday marked the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Teams of Firecon participants marked […]