The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is reminding travellers to plan ahead when travelling to Canada this holiday season. Between January 1 and October 31, 2025, the CBSA says they welcomed more than 70 million travellers while also intercepting over 30,790 kg of illegal drugs and 13,500 weapons and firearms. […]
District News
By Mike Stimpson,
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Thunder Bay Source
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Thunder Bay Source
THUNDER BAY — Ontario’s legislative assembly is taking a 14-week break after having already taken a 19-week summer break and sitting only 51 days this year. And the MPP for Thunder Bay-Superior North doesn’t like it one bit. “It’s appalling, really,” Lise Vaugeois, a New Democrat, said of the Progressive […]
By Matt Prokopchuk
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
TBnewswatch.com
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
TBnewswatch.com
THUNDER BAY — A new commercially-available mobile service that uses satellites to connect can help people stay safer in remote areas. That’s according to Kurtis Jung, a Thunder Bay man who spends a lot of time in the outdoors as a hunter and angler and in his job as a […]
By Sandi Krasowski
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The Chronicle-Journal
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The Chronicle-Journal
The Federal Economic Development Agency for Northern Ontario (FedNor) will spend $15.8 million in Northern Ontario over three years to strengthen defence supply chains and increase their industrial and innovation capacity. The funding is part of the federal government’s national $357.7-million Regional Defence Investment Initiative that extends from Canada’s $6.6 […]
By Steven Sukkau
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Winnipeg Sun
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Winnipeg Sun
Canadians continue to face lengthy delays for medically necessary health care, with patients waiting more than six months on average from a family doctor referral to treatment, according to a new national study, a reality experts say has become the defining feature of the country’s health-care system. The Fraser Institute’s Waiting […]
By Chris Fell,
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
CollingwoodToday.ca
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
CollingwoodToday.ca
The Ford government’s plan to merge Ontario’s conservation authorities into much larger entities is not sitting well with two members of The Blue Mountains council. Collingwood council isn’t on board either. If the change were approved, both Collingwood and the Town of the Blue Mountains, alongside 78+ other municipalities, would […]
By Shari Narine
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Windspeaker.com
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Windspeaker.com
After a decade-and-a-half of recording music and writing songs, his new book The Work of Our Hands: A Cree Meditation on the Real World is the first time Juno-nominated Cree singer Adrian Sutherland has put pen to paper in this manner. And, he admits, it was more difficult than he […]
By Times Staff
One man is in police custody following a break and enter in Atikokan. According to a press release from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), on Sunday, December 14, 2025, at approximately 2:45 p.m., officers responded to a break and enter incident on Male Crescent in Atikokan. As police arrived on […]
By Carl Clutchey
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The Chronicle-Journal
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The Chronicle-Journal
Though fewer Canadians are choosing to travel to the U.S. while Donald Trump is that country’s president, a complete overhaul of Minnesota’s Grand Portage border facility on Highway 61 aims to “decrease congestion and long wait times” during peak travel periods. The US$105-million project announced on Monday by the U.S. […]
By Sonal Gupta
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Canada’s National Observer
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Canada’s National Observer
Trevor Stratton recalls the day he wandered out of a pharmacy without paying last summer. The pharmacist chased him down and scolded him — only to later confirm there had been no charge at all. Stratton, who was recovering from a seizure and unclear on his medication coverage, describes the […]
By Natasha Bulowski
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Canada’s National Observer
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Canada’s National Observer
Canada’s food safety agency doubts it could adequately protect the food supply in the next two years if the country is hit with several concurrent emergencies, such as animal disease outbreaks or food safety recalls. The problem is exacerbated by climate change, with the agency warning the crisis could impact […]
By Matt Prokopchuk
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
TBnewswatch.com
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
TBnewswatch.com
KINGFISHER LAKE — Squeals of delight greeted jolly old Saint Nick as he entered each First Nation school gymnasium on his recent tour of the far north. Santa and his trusted elf, Jibjab-alooba Oopa (Nicole Orr), wrapped up their four-day trek through the 12 remote communities that own Wasaya Airways. […]
