SAGAMOK--On October 10 the Ontario Provincial Police Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau, North Bay Drug Enforcement Unit, and the Anishinabek Police Service executed a search warrant at a residence in Sagamok First Nation. As a result of the investigation a quantity of cannabis marijuana and a prohibited weapon were seized. Two individuals were charged and are scheduled to appear in court on December 4, 201 ...

QUEEN’S PARK––Local politicians are joining Northern Ontario NDP MPPs, in their frustration concerning job and service cuts involving the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) taking place across Northern Ontario. “Something is really rotten in the state of Denmark,” stated an exasperated Billings Township Councillor, Brian Parker, who raised concerns about the cuts taking place in Northern Ontario recently. ...

GORE BAY—Every household in Gore Bay will be provided with an information package concerning the proposal of installing water meters in homes and businesses within the next three months after council debated the issue at a committee of the whole last week. The package will include a sample rate structure, as well as answering questions that have been raised by the public and once further input is provided, ...

TORONTO—Haweater Ashleigh Wiggins is one of 20 recipients in all of Canada to have received a fellowship from the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation to continue her work in cancer research. She has a special interest in research that focusses on the use of compounds in one’s diet as complementary to breast cancer therapies. “My project is to do with the diet and people with cancer and things that they can do ...

MANITOULIN—The Manitoulin Longbeards club will continue to operate in the future despite the recent announcement by the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) that the environmental assessment process that was being carried out to look at relocating wild turkeys and pheasants on Manitoulin Island has been indefinitely postponed. “I haven’t heard anything officially from the NWTF (National Wild Turkey Federatio ...