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HUGHES DELIVERS TRIBUTE TO ALGO CENTRE MALL TRAGEDY

HUGHES DELIVERS TRIBUTE TO ALGO CENTRE MALL TRAGEDY

OTTAWA, ON – The roof collapse at the Algo Centre Mall that captured the attention of Canada in June was remembered in parliament today as Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing MP Carol Hughes delivered a statement on the tragedy. Hughes recounted the efforts of local emergency volunteers along with [Read more]

Numbers just don’t add up in Conservative pass the buck economy says Hughes

Numbers just don’t add up in Conservative pass the buck economy says Hughes

Gas prices went through the roof in the last ten days.  In the north we need no lessons about the fickle nature of gas pricing and the havoc it plays on household budgets.  This might be a little easier to take if we were burning Canadian fuel that had been domestically refined as part of [Read more]

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Re: MNR & Lake Nipissing

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Re: MNR & Lake Nipissing

*Please remember with ALL Letters to the Editor on OntarioNewsNorth.com it is the Readers’ Responsibility to verify facts and research the information. OntarioNewsNorth.com neither confirms nor denies the information contained in Letters to the Editor. Opinions offered are those of the author [Read more]

PUBLIC INVITED TO ATTEND: Manitouwadge Official Plan Open House

PUBLIC INVITED TO ATTEND: Manitouwadge Official Plan Open House

The township of Manitouwadge is updating its Official Plan, a policy document adopted by Council it describes as “determining how to manage land and resources to ensure a healthy and vibrant community”. Public input is an important part of the Official Plan review and update process and [Read more]

DISCONNECT BETWEEN FIRST NATIONS AND GOVERNMENT GROWING AS CUTS MOUNT

DISCONNECT BETWEEN FIRST NATIONS AND GOVERNMENT GROWING AS CUTS MOUNT

OTTAWA, ON – On the final day for residential school survivors to apply for compensation, Carol Hughes is worried that mounting cuts to First Nations organizational bodies will only hamper the ability to focus at the local level and deliver appropriate health services. “The Conservatives like [Read more]

Council Defeats Motion To Cease Manitouwadge Clubhouse Operations And Their Growing Debt

Council Defeats Motion To Cease Manitouwadge Clubhouse Operations And Their Growing Debt

MANITOUWADGE, ON – At the September 12th Regular Council Meeting Golf Clubhouse Acting Manager Margaret Hartling presented a report to council which included details of the Clubhouse’s current over budget situation (i.e. in debt) and recommendations on how to avoid the Clubhouse going further [Read more]

HUGHES CALLS ON GOVERNMENT TO RECOMMIT TO HEALTH CARE FUNDING

HUGHES CALLS ON GOVERNMENT TO RECOMMIT TO HEALTH CARE FUNDING

OTTAWA, ON  – Stable funding for health care should be a priority for the federal government so we can properly serve Canada’s growing and aging population says Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing MP, Carol Hughes.  Despite that reality, the omnibus budget set out a formula that will lower the [Read more]

Mantha’s News from the Park

Mantha’s News from the Park

ALGOMA-MANITOULIN, ON – The Ontario legislature has only been back a couple of weeks and already we’ve seen some significant changes. On Thursday September 6,th the NDP blocked a Liberal majority with an unprecedented win in the Kitchener-Waterloo by-election. Premier McGuinty engineered [Read more]

Greenstone confirmed as Gateway to the Ring of Fire

Greenstone confirmed as Gateway to the Ring of Fire

 “More and more it is becoming clear that the Municipality of Greenstone is emerging as the gateway to the Ring of Fire.” These words were used by Greenstone Mayor, Renald Beaulieu, while briefing Councillors on recent developments concerning the Municipality. The first development is [Read more]

FEDERAL MONEY AVAILABLE FOR ACCESSIBILITY IMPROVEMENTS – Deadline approaching

FEDERAL MONEY AVAILABLE FOR ACCESSIBILITY IMPROVEMENTS – Deadline approaching

Hughes urges organizations to apply before deadline ELLIOT LAKE, ON – Community-based projects looking to improve accessibility, remove barriers, and enable Canadians with disabilities to participate in and contribute to their communities have until October 5th to make an application to the [Read more]

Experimental Lakes Area: ‘An Unparalleled Scientific Resource Endangered’

Experimental Lakes Area: ‘An Unparalleled Scientific Resource Endangered’

Swiss and American scientists criticize cancellation of world-renown Canadian research program WASHINGTON, DC U.S.A. – In a new viewpoint article published in a leading scientific journal, Swiss and American scientists express their deep concern about the imminent closure of a unique freshwater [Read more]

Hyer on the Hill Restoring confidence in Parliament

Hyer on the Hill Restoring confidence in Parliament

Before this year’s omnibus budget was passed, Conservative Member of Parliament David Wilks discussed it with his constituents. They were upset with many of the clauses, and Wilks explained that, even though he agreed with many of their concerns, it was impossible for him to vote against the [Read more]

Labour Day allows us to focus on challenges says MP Carol Hughes

Labour Day allows us to focus on challenges says MP Carol Hughes

You don’t have to think back that far to remember Labour Days when the attitude towards the hard working people who make up the bulk of our economic well being was more positive.   Now we have a prolonged international recession and a government that is decidedly anti-union as the new normal. [Read more]

Federal Electoral Riding Redistribution – Proposed Northern Ontario Boundaries

Federal Electoral Riding Redistribution – Proposed Northern Ontario Boundaries

Parliament has determined that Ontario should have 15 additional electoral districts, raising the total number of electoral districts in the province from 106 to 121. When readjusting electoral boundaries, the Commission is required to apply the principles contained in the Electoral Boundaries [Read more]

NOMA WANTS PROVINCE TO LEAD PLANS FOR MINING INFRASTRUCTURE

NOMA WANTS PROVINCE TO LEAD PLANS FOR MINING INFRASTRUCTURE

OTTAWA, ON – Representatives of the Northwestern Ontario Municipal Association (NOMA) are in Ottawa this week for meetings with provincial leaders to discuss issues and opportunities in Northwestern Ontario during the Association of Municipalities of Ontario annual conference. “Northwestern [Read more]

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