A Timmins man has been fined a total of $625 after unsuccessfully claiming Aboriginal harvesting rights. Robert Mayotte was convicted and fined $125 for fishing without a licence and $500 for hunting game birds without a licence after unsuccessfully claiming Aboriginal harvesting rights. Court [Read more]
A Foleyet man has been fined a total of $1,525 for falsifying trapping reports. Wilfred Trochimchuk pleaded guilty to four counts of failing to include appropriate information on a season-end harvest report and one count of making a false statement in a document and was fined $1,525. Court heard [Read more]
John Wlad and Sons Construction Limited pleaded guilty to operating an aggregate pit on Crown land without a permit. The court heard that John Wlad and Sons Construction Limited own a private land pit in McCart Township, near Iroquois Falls. On May 1, 2014, a Ministry of Natural Resources and [Read more]
Two Shillington-area men have been fined a total of $6,500 for bear hunting offences. Martin Alford pleaded guilty and was fined: $500 for failing to immediately attach his seal to a bear, $1,500 for unlawfully possessing wildlife, $2,500 for abandoning the flesh of three bears. He also received a [Read more]
A Timmins mining company has been fined $60,000 for contraventions of the Lakes and Rivers Improvement Act. The Ministry of Natural Resources laid the charges against Liberty Mines, now known as Northern Sun Mining, after mining officials reported a minor breech in their tailings dam in 2010. The [Read more]
A Timmins man has been fined for misleading a conservation officer. Marcel Moreau pleaded guilty and was fined $1,000 for making a false statement to a conservation officer. Court heard that on the morning of October 23, 2009, conservation officers conducted an inspection on Marcel Moreau on the [Read more]
