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Throughout this summer, the Northwest Region Traffic Incident Management and Enforcement (T.I.M.E.) team of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), in partnership with Conservation Officers from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF), has been conducting joint-enforcement marine patrols. The summer-long operation has included mandatory alcohol screening (M.A.S.) and fish […]

TIMMINS – Tristan Ashishkeesh is urging Indigenous communities and allies to blockade highways, railways, and fisheries as a way to oppose two controversial resource development bills. Ahishkeesh arrived in Toronto last week after he and a small group of protesters walked 700 kilometres from Timmins. An Aug. 8 rally at […]

Stage 4 cancer survivor running Fox’s route By Anna Smith, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Athlete, author and stage 4 cancer survivor Helene Neville made her way through Medicine Hat early this week as she follows Terry Fox’ planned route across Canada. Neville, a U.S. resident, started her long-distance running career in […]

Beginning in 1854, steam trains in Niagara-on-the-Lake were turned around by hand on a 60-foot-wide limestone ring near the waterfront. Many don’t know the turntable is still partially there — or that a team is restoring it, stone by stone. On Thursday, new blocks of Queenston limestone from the Queenston […]

Provincial police are continuing to investigate Monday’s early-morning crash on the outskirts of Thunder Bay that claimed the life of a 17-year-old Kakabeka Falls boy. Police said the unidentified boy was badly injured around 6:40 a.m. when a motorcycle he was driving collided with a four-door sedan at the intersection […]

MOOSE CREE FIRST NATION — The Grand Chief of Nishnawbe Aski Nation says the territorial organization’s leadership wasn’t invited to a recent consultation session by provincial officials. Alvin Fiddler told the 2025 Keewaywin Conference on Tuesday afternoon that the NAN executive “did not receive even the courtesy of a notice,” […]

KIRKLAND LAKE – On a cold January morning in 2020, Colleen Fagan sat at her kitchen table in Kirkland Lake, stunned.  Pierre Richard, her stepson, who she thought was in jail, had been released and died of drug poisoning within 24 hours. “I was his stepmom. I loved him dearly,” […]

When Agnieszka Filipek arrived from Poland 33 years ago, she brought with her a wealth of culinary knowledge from deep traditional foundations and a dream to one day market this. In August of 2024, Filipek developed her home-based business Agnieszka Organics, and is celebrating one year of being part of […]

With summer in full swing, so too is the sweet season of Ontario fruits — fresh from the orchard, grove, bush, field or vineyard. Local fruit season starts in early to mid-June with the much-anticipated strawberries, which then moves into a domino run of fresh, succulent berries, tender fruit, tree […]