Toronto City Councillor Mike Layton, the son of the late former NDP leader Jack Layton, will speak at the third annual Valentine Lobster Dinner sponsored by the Nickel Belt NDP Federal Riding Association. “I am really looking forward to my visit to Greater Sudbury and the Nickel Belt NDP,” Layton said:“Dad was always happy to get to Northern Ontario. I ... Read More »
Council resolves to more transparency. West Nipissing council plans to be more transparent than ever in the New Year. After concerns about the abundance of regular closed meetings were brought up, council has decided to be more open with the public. “We’ve been holding our closed meetings before our regular council meetings for a long time,” said Municipal Clerk/Planner Melanie ... Read More »
Earlier this Spring, the McGuinty Liberals presented their 2012 budget which essentially swung the ax down on many public sectors including the ONTC, pensions, OAS and more, maintaining that their aim is to get our deficit under control “while growing the economy and protecting health care and education.” The belief that privatization and offloading of public services is the answer to ... Read More »
I had the distinct pleasure of meeting and chatting with Justin Trudeau this morning, when he stopped by École secondaire catholique Algonquin in North Bay along with former Nipissing Temiskaming Liberal MP Anthony Rota, a few moments before he addressed a very receptive group of over 600 students, teachers and staff in the school auditorium. Trudeau, Liberal MP for Papineau-Montreal ... Read More »
Justin Trudeau, prominent Liberal MP for the riding of Papineau – Montreal since 2008 and son of former Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau, will be in North Bay on Thursday, May 31st to meet with Nipissing-Timiskaming and Nickel Belt liberal members and supporters. Mr. Trudeau will be visiting several local venues in the city before attending a lunch at the ... Read More »
Over the past several months, there has been much debate and many rumours circulating, both in coffee shops and online, about the massive improvement project undertaken at Minnehaha Bay. One of the more contentious components of the project has been the 5,100 sq. ft. building, often referred to as “The White Elelephant”. While everyone agrees that it is a very ... Read More »
OTTAWA – Nickel Belt MP Claude Gravelle will assume new responsibilities as the NDP mining champion, party leader Tom Mulcair has announced. “I am honoured with Tom’s appointment and know it fits perfectly with my own priorities and more importantly those of our Northern Ontario communities,” Gravelle said. In the last Parliament, Gravelle worked on a national mining strategy that ... Read More »
The Saturday May 12th, 2012 Clean Up effort at Sandy Falls, which was initially all about the garbage, turned out to be something more. Much more. It turned out to be about the people. Mother’s Day couldn’t have been a more appropriate venue for giving back to Mother Nature. In total, 62 volunteers, from around West Nipissing and as far ... Read More »
You can see the resignation on people’s faces when you pull into any fuel station. Even though the prices at our local gas stations have remained consistently lower since last Summer, by a few cents, than our neighbours in North Bay or Sudbury, it’s a small consolation. Speculators predict that fuel prices will rise above $1.50 per litre by the Summer. ... Read More »
Louise Charron, a native of Sturgeon Falls and the first Franco-Ontarian to be named to the Supreme Court has announced that she is retiring. After a long and distinguished career as an assistant Crown Attorney in Ottawa, District Court Judge and nearly 10 years for the Ontario Court of Appeals, she was named to the Supreme Court in 2004, at ... Read More »
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