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Posted 11 June 2025

Thunder Bay resident receives provincial recognition for volunteer work

A Thunder Bay resident has been awarded a significant provincial honour for his work as a volunteer in the community. Dr. Prashant Jani has been awarded the June Callwood Outstanding Achievement Award for Voluntarism. Thunder Bay-Atikokan MPP Kevin Holland presented the award at a ceremony on...

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Posted 11 June 2025

Free used bikes available for Thunder Bay youth

Thunder Bay is diverting waste from the landfill while offering some free bikes to kids in the community. Thunder Bay’s Second Spin initiative, a bike reuse program has started up for the year. The program was launched in 2024 and it offers kids bikes that have been dropped of at the city’s...

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Posted 11 June 2025

Free used bikes available for Thunder Bay youth

Thunder Bay is diverting waste from the landfill while offering some free bikes to kids in the community. Thunder Bay’s Second Spin initiative, a bike reuse program has started up for the year. The program was launched in 2024 and it offers kids bikes that have been dropped of at the city’s...

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Posted 11 June 2025

AL PACINO as “Han Solo”???

Before Harrison Ford took the role as Han Solo in ‘Star Wars’, George Lucas hand delivered the script to Al Pacino, hoping he’d play the captain of the Millennium Falcon. Pacino, turned down the role, explaining to ‘ET’ that he just didn’t understand the plot: “I was doing a show on Broadway at...

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Posted 11 June 2025

Canada needs power grid upgrades urgently: electricity group

Canada desperately needs more sources of electricity. That’s according to a news release from the Electricity Alliance of Canada. They say the country’s annual output of 630 terawatt-hours will not meet future demand. The group says the federal government’s recent One Canadian Economy Act does...

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Posted 11 June 2025

Canada needs power grid upgrades urgently: electricity group

Canada desperately needs more sources of electricity. That’s according to a news release from the Electricity Alliance of Canada. They say the country’s annual output of 630 terawatt-hours will not meet future demand. The group says the federal government’s recent One Canadian Economy Act does...

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Posted 11 June 2025

21 wildfires burning in Northwestern Ontario

Twenty-one fires are burning in Northwestern Ontario. One popped up Tuesday in the Sioux Lookout and is about 15 hectares in size, according to the Aviation Forest Fires and Emergency Services. In the region, 7 fires are out of control, 6 are controlled, and 8 are under observation. The largest...

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Posted 11 June 2025

21 wildfires burning in Northwestern Ontario

Twenty-one fires are burning in Northwestern Ontario. One popped up Tuesday in the Sioux Lookout and is about 15 hectares in size, according to the Aviation Forest Fires and Emergency Services. In the region, 7 fires are out of control, 6 are controlled, and 8 are under observation. The largest...

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Posted 10 June 2025

97 per cent of Superior North EMS district staff vote in favour of strike mandate

Unionized Superior North EMS staff working outside of Thunder Bay have voted 97 per cent in favour of a strike mandate. The employees’ collective agreement expired at the end of last October. Negotiations on a new deal got underway in April between the union and Thunder Bay with a Ministry of...

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Posted 10 June 2025

97 per cent of Superior North EMS district staff vote in favour of strike mandate

Unionized Superior North EMS staff working outside of Thunder Bay have voted 97 per cent in favour of a strike mandate. The employees’ collective agreement expired at the end of last October. Negotiations on a new deal got underway in April between the union and Thunder Bay with a Ministry of...

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