By Dave Baxter
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Winnipeg Sun

The Chief of one of Manitoba’s largest First Nations says health care services are in a dire and deteriorating state in his community, and if things don’t improve, he believes it will continue to lead to more harm and more “unnecessary deaths.” “We are sick and tired of bringing our […]

By Natasha Bulowski
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Canada's National Observer

Ontario’s auto sector has a chance to cash in on North America’s growing market for electric buses and electrifying the province’s school buses is a strong place to start, say Pembina Institute analysts. The benefits of swapping out fossil fuel-fuelled school buses for electric buses are many. It reduces the […]

Press release

Local survivors welcome to submit their loved one’s name for future ceremonies MADD Canada’s National President Jaymie-Lyne Hancock has been part of several memorial monument ceremonies to honour impaired driving victims in other provinces, but today’s unveiling of the new Ontario Memorial Monument will be especially personal and emotional for […]

By Carl Clutchey
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The Chronicle-Journal

Shuniah, Ont. — An extensive four-laning of the Trans-Canada Highway east of Thunder Bay is more than half-way done following the latest added section that was unveiled last week, the Ministry of Transportation says. With the additional nine-kilometre section of the Highway 11-17 route officially put in service last week near Dorion, “58.3 kms […]

By Yuriy Umansky
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
New Canadian Media

Most people get their news about the conflict in Ukraine from brief news clips and stories, without ever hearing first-hand accounts from the people who are there.  Now a documentary film brings this tragedy into sharp focus. Maciek Hamela’s In the Rearview makes its North American debut Sept. 12 at the Toronto […]

By Phillip Blancher
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The Morrisburg Leader

TORONTO – Ontario Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing Steve Clark resigned from cabinet Monday morning (September 4.) Clark, who has served as Minister in that portfolio since June 2018, has been under fire after two reports were released on the provincial government’s handling of removing land from Toronto’s Greenbelt. […]

By Kevin Jeffrey
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
TBnewswatch.com

It’s an ongoing challenge in Northwestern Ontario; how to attract and retain workers to the region and also house them. Those were some of the topics on the mind of Thunder Bay-Superior North MP Patty Hajdu, who addressed the Thunder Bay Chamber of Commerce’s’ Leader Luncheon on Wednesday at the […]

By Pam Wright
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Chatham voice

The first call has been made on the McKinlay Woodlands Memorial Forest’s new wind phone. Lily Martin, 10, who lost her uncle to suicide last year, was the first to pick up the vintage rotary phone’s receiver following its recent installation at C.M. Wilson Conservation Area. The project – a […]

By Sam Laskaris
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Windspeaker.com

The circle of life is explained in an upcoming children’s book written by Indigenous author Brittany Luby. The book, which is published by Groundwood Books and will be available on Oct. 3, is titled Mnoomin maan’gowing The Gift of Mnoomin. The 36-page book, aimed at children ages three to six, […]

By Carl Clutchey
Local Journalism Initiative reporter
The Chronicle Journal

Shuniah, Ont. — An extensive four-laning of the Trans-Canada Highway east of Thunder Bay is more than half-way done following the latest added section that was unveiled last week, the Ministry of Transportation says. With the additional nine-kilometre section of the Highway 11-17 route officially put in service last week near Dorion, “58.3 […]

(FORT FRANCES, ON) – Members of the Rainy River District Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Detachment have arrested and charged an individual following a report of animal abuse. On August 31, 2023 The Rainy River District OPP received information about a dog being physically harmed by the owner on numerous occasions. […]