By Dave Baxter
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Winnipeg Sun

The City of Brandon has joined a growing chorus of Manitoba municipalities and organizations asking for bail reform and for the justice system to keep repeat offenders behind bars and off the streets. “For us, it is a real drain on our police resources to have our police continuously having […]

By Celeste Percy-Beauregard
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The Hamilton Spectator

Health officials confirmed 11 more measles cases in Norfolk residents over the weekend, bringing the current tally to 68 — surpassing the 64 cases reported in Ontario for all of last year. Since January, the highly contagious virus has hit 55 children and 13 adults in the Grand Erie region, […]

By Jeff Pelletier
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Nunatsiaq News

A Winnipeg firm that owns several northern airlines has announced it plans to buy Canadian North, the airline that serves the Arctic. Exchange Income Corp. said it made a deal to buy Bradley Air Services Ltd., which operates as Canadian North, for $205 million from the two Inuit organizations that […]

By Mike Stimpson
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Thunder Bay Source

KENORA — The federal government’s appointment of a longtime advocate for victims’ rights as chief adviser on human trafficking was great news to the coordinator of Treaty Three Police Service’s Maanaji’win Project. Gary Anandasangaree, the minister of Crown-Indigenous relations, announced Jennifer Richardson’s appointment to the adviser position, with a three-year […]

By Carl Clutchey
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The Chronicle-Journal

A decision by the Ministry of Natural Resource to allow a high-voltage power line to go through a portion of a protected area just west of Thunder Bay may be challenged at an Ontario Land Tribunal hearing. “We are currently filling out the paperwork to request a hearing, which we […]

By John Woodside
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Canada’s National Observer

Connecting the Toronto-Quebec City corridor with high speed rail could shave 39 million  tonnes of carbon pollution in the coming decades, the equivalent of  taking nine million gas powered cars off the road for a year, according  to project documents.  Transportation experts interviewed by Canada’s National Observer  said a high-speed rail network […]

By Ethan Braund
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Woolwich Observer

Rising costs and economic uncertainty are slowing Ontario farm business growth, according to the latest Farm Business Confidence Survey released this week by the Ontario Federation of Agriculture (OFA).  Compared to the previous year, Ontario farmers are focusing on maintaining the status quo and dialing back expansion and investment in […]

– Allan Bradbury photo

Love them or hate them, Fort Frances’ resident deer populations seem like they’re here to stay, and have gotten quite comfortable doing so, as seen in this photo taken earlier this year. White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) are the most numerous of Ontario’s cervid species, which includes woodland caribou, American elk […]

By Olivia Bradbury
Local Journalism Initiative
Reporter
The Shoreline News

The Invictus Games are an international sporting event for injured and ill members of the military, both serving members and veterans. In this year’s Games, Team Canada includes Clifford Samms, a Codroy resident who served in the air force for over 20 years. Samms joined the forces after he finished […]