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Posted 31 May 2021

Air Conditioning At Local LTC

Steps are being taken to make residents of Thunder Bay long-term care homes more comfortable. Gord Muir, the Supervisor of Environmental Services at Pioneer Ridge, feels having a cooler atmosphere for residents will be a good thing. Related: AC Improvements In LTC Homes “It was long overdue,”...

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Posted 31 May 2021

Australian Firm Eyes Noront

Wyloo Metals has put forward an offer to purchase local group Noront Resources. The Australian firm already owned part of Noront, but are now looking for control of the mining company. Mining Services Project Manager in Thunder Bay, John Mason, explains the offer. “Wyloo Metals previously...

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Posted 31 May 2021

Garth and Trisha Host The Ellen Show

Garth hosted the show back in November and this time around brought his amazing Wife Trisha with him.  They were great… when they were themselves… a little cheesy when they were reading jokes.  They even gave some great relationship advice and sang some tunes. And they had a great chat with...

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Posted 31 May 2021

Ontario’s Chief Doctor Retiring

Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer is retiring. In a statement to the media, Dr. David Williams says he was first appointed to the role for an interim basis on July 1st, 2015, but that became permanent February 16th of the next year. In the fall of 2020, he was persuaded to postpone his...

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Posted 31 May 2021

Local Man Wins Modest Battle With Taxman

It’s been a long 4-year battle for a Thunder Bay man to get property taxes lowered on his mother’s Walker’s Lake home. Keith Scott tells us after an arbitration hearing with the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation recently, he finally got the $8,000 bill lowered for a property worth...

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Posted 31 May 2021

Local Man Wins Modest Battle With Taxman

It’s been a long 4-year battle for a Thunder Bay man to get property taxes lowered on his mother’s Walker’s Lake home. Keith Scott tells us after an arbitration hearing with the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation recently, he finally got the $8,000 bill lowered for a property worth...

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Posted 31 May 2021

Special Olympic Athlete Knits For Charity

A Thunder Bay Special Olympic athlete is using her passion to help others by knitting scarves. Yvette DeGagne tells us she had to do something to stay busy during COVID-19. Her sister Karen adds she knits for family, friends and the Lutheran Community Care Centre, “To people with disabilities...

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Posted 31 May 2021

Ontario’s Chief Doctor Retiring

Ontario’s Chief Medical Officer is retiring. In a statement to the media, Dr. David Williams says he was first appointed to the role for an interim basis on July 1st, 2015, but that became permanent February 16th of the next year. In the fall of 2020, he was persuaded to postpone his...

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Posted 30 May 2021

Honouring Kamloops Residential School Victims

Thunder Bay will join the Prime Minister’s call and lower flags at City Hall at half-staff. The move is to honour the lives of 215 children found in a mass grave at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C. The revelation was made on Thursday May 27 by the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc...

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Posted 30 May 2021

Honouring Kamloops Residential School Victims

Thunder Bay will join the Prime Minister’s call and lower flags at City Hall at half-staff. The move is to honour the lives of 215 children found in a mass grave at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C. The revelation was made on Thursday May 27 by the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc...

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