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In a move to combat theft and provide a safer shopping experience, the LCBO will soon require some customers to present photo identification to security before entering at six Ontario stores as part of a new pilot program. On Tuesday, the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO), announced it is …
Read More »An Ontario town promised long-term care beds 6 years ago is still waiting
Eighty-five-year-old Dianna Ayotte says she doesn’t think she’ll still be around when Sioux Lookout, Ont., is finally given a new long-term care home. The Ontario town, situated approximately four hours north of Thunder Bay, is home to a key hospital serving fly-ins from several First Nations. A lack of long-term …
Read More »‘Harder to build’: How the housing crisis wrapped itself around a northern Ontario town
More than 1,000 miles north of the Greater Toronto Area, far away from the Greenbelt scandal and spats over who should pay for refugee shelter spaces, is a community that has been struggling to keep pace as it grows. Despite not sharing the spotlight with cities and towns in southern …
Read More »Out-of-control blazes already raging as Ontario braces for wildfire season
As large parts of the country struggle with the spread of wildfires and mandatory evacuations, swathes of Ontario sit under forest fire warnings. An extreme fire warning is in place for parts of Ontario that include Sault Ste. Marie, Sudbury, Timmins, Algonquin Park and areas of traditional cottage country around …
Read More »Northwestern Ontario communities get policing discounts from province, say more needed
A coalition of northwestern Ontario mayors say the province has agreed to help with their communities’ rising policing costs but more financial support is needed. The mayors of Sioux Lookout, Kenora and Pickle Lake formed a coalition last year to ask the province for relief as escalating homelessness, drug addition …
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