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@ONgov Increases Financial Support to Communities

KIRKLAND LAKE, ON – The Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities (FONOM) is pleased with the provincial government’s announcement on November 20, 2017 to increase the Ontario Municipal Partnership Fund (OMPF) by $5 million for 2018 to a total of $510 million in funding for 389 municipalities across the province. The province has recognized that municipalities are facing challenging fiscal…

SmallBusinessOwner Named @OntarioNDP Candidate in TBay-SuperiorNorth @TBSN_NDP @ONgov #NorthernOntario

THUNDER BAY, ON – Sunday evening, Thunder Bay-Superior North NDP members nominated local small business owner Lise Vaugeois to represent their riding as the candidate in the next provincial election, set for June 2018. “As a small business owner I’m concerned about skyrocketing hydro bills,” said Vaugeois. “I have seen the damage the Wynne Liberals have done to our hydro system firsthand and I’m…

@ONgov Releases 2016-17 #PublicAccounts @ONfinance @SousaCharles @OntarioAuditor @OpenGovON @NorthernPolicy @TBS_Canada @OntarioNDP @OntarioPCParty @OntarioGreens

Province Balancing the Budget This Year, Helping Families Get Ahead Today the province released the Public Accounts of Ontario, showing that Ontario’s deficit for last year was $991 million–$3.3 billion lower than projected in the 2016 Budget and $0.5 billion lower than the interim projection in the 2017 Budget. This is a result of growth in revenue that exceeded growth in program expense, and…

WalleyeSpawningBeds 2Be Improved Using #Environmental PenaltiesFund @WatershedsCAN @ONenvironment @ONgov @Kawartha_PP @CanadianWater @envirodefence @ofah @OntarioFishHunt @CityPtbo @OFC_FISHING @OntarioFish #GreatLakes @LakeSuperior

UPDATE: Ontario Community Environment Fund (OCEF) Watersheds Canada has been awarded an OCEF grant of over $960 from funds collected from environmental penalties. The organization will use the funds to improve two existing walleye spawning beds on Twin Sisters Lake by first making an assessment of the sites, putting in place measures to reduce erosion and continuously monitor the results.…

#GrassyNarrows Welcomes @Kathleen_Wynne ’s CleanUp PromiseCalling4SwiftResults @ONgov @DavidSuzukiFDN @GNYouthMedia@ONenvironment @Glen4ONT @DavidZimmerMPP @Water @JustinTrudeau @UN_Water @DavidSuzuki

Image tweeted by CBC, click to view original tweet. Grassy Narrows Chief Simon Fobister is responding today to a new commitment made on Friday by Premier Wynne to clean the English-Wabigoon River.  The river has been highly contaminated since 1962 when a paper company in Dryden began dumping 9,000 kg of untreated mercury waste into the river – contaminating the fish and poisoning three…

MPP @DavidOrazietti Announces Resignation @CitySSM @onsafety @OntLiberal @Kathleen_Wynne @NorthernPolicy @OntarioPolitico @ONgov @On_Poli @OntarioPoli @Ontario411_

Statement from Liberal MPP for Sault Ste. Marie and Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services, David Orazietti  “Although this is a very difficult decision, and one I do not make lightly, I am announcing my resignation from provincial politics. I first and foremost would like to thank the people of Sault Ste. Marie for supporting me through four elections and for giving me the honour…