Deputy leader of the Green Party Bruce Hyer (Thunder Bay-Superior North, Ont.) will be hosting a series of town hall meetings across Northwestern Ontario. The event is an opportunity for residents to make their voices heard on the proposal by the Nuclear Waste Management Organization to transport or bury nuclear waste in Northwestern Ontario. Proposed sites include in … Read more
Minister of Public Works and Government Services Diane Finley (Haldimand-Norfolk, Ont.) will make an important announcement about a Government of Canada investment in Norfolk County. The event will be held at Bird Studies Canada Headquarters, 115 Front Road. Call 819-997-5421.
Voters in the province of Ontario will elect mayors, councillors, school board trustees and all other elected officials in all of the province’s municipalities.
The Canadian Coast Guard will participate in search and rescue exercises together with the Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary, the Ontario Civil Air Search and Rescue Association, and the Royal Canadian Air Force 424 Transport and Rescue Squadron out of 8 Wing Trenton. The exercises will take place Saturday, May 24th on Lake Ontario near Port Weller and the 50 … Read more
Ontario voters go the polls. More information is available online.
Ontario’s Advocate for Children and Youth will release a report written by First Nations youth that urges all levels of leadership to partner with them to create safer, healthier communities. The report is based on the voices of more than 160 First Nations youth from 64 remote and fly-in First Nations communities across northern Ontario … Read more
Two byelections will be held, one in Niagara Falls, Ont., the other in Thornhill, Ont. More information is available online.
The first of 1,000 displaced Tibetans selected to resettle in Canada will arrive in Toronto and Ottawa on Nov. 29. They will be greeted at both airports by private sponsors and Tibet supporters. The event will be held at Toronto/Pearson International Airport, Terminal 1 at 4:30 p.m. and at Ottawa/Macdonald-Cartier International Airport, Arrivals, Flight AC … Read more
On behalf of Heritage and Official Languages Minister Shelly Glover (Saint-Boniface, Man.), Conservative MP Daryl Kramp (Prince Edward−Hastings, Ont.) will announce support for an Aboriginal Languages Initiative. The event will be held at 19 Bayshore Road, Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory. Call 819-997-7788.
NDP MP Thomas Mulcair (Outremont, Que.) will take part in Democracy Week events hosted by Fair Vote Canada. He will give a speech at the Make Every Vote Count campaign launch in Ottawa and he will attend Democracy Day on the Danforth in Toronto.
