TIMMINS — NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh announced key elements of the NDP’s Northern Ontario platform—focused on fixing health care, lowering grocery prices, investing in infrastructure, and protecting access to French-language services in the North. “For too many people in the North, life is getting harder,” said Singh. “It’s harder to find a doctor, harder to afford groceries, and harder to …
KENORA – The Ontario government is investing in the success of Northern Ontario communities and businesses by increasing its annual funding allocation to the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation (NOHFC) by an additional $30 million over the next three years. This sustained funding increase will support continued economic development in the North, including the expansion of NOHFC programming eligibility to the District of …
Ottawa – Jonathan Wilkinson, Canada’s Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, announced an investment of more than $900,000 to Integrity Reforestation for a major reforestation project that will help to restore wildfire-impacted land and caribou habitat in Ontario’s Ogoki Forest. With this funding, Integrity Reforestation will: ● plant 800,000 trees, covering 450 hectares of the Ogoki Forest; ● rehabilitate ecosystems …
