MANITOULIN—The Manitoulin Health Centre (MHC) has received some good news in regards to funding towards replacing aging hospital infrastructure. “This is very good news, because for five years we had received Health Infrastructure Renewal Fund (HIRF) funding from the North East Local Health Integrated Network (NELHIN), but last year we didn’t receive any funding through this program,” said Derek Graham, chi ...

MANITOULIN—The North East Local Health Integrated Network (NELHIN) has approved a pilot project and funding for the non-urgent patient transfer system. The pilot project has been approved for the LaCloche-Manitoulin proposal partnership, submitted by the Espanola Regional Hospital, Manitoulin Health Centre and the Manitoulin-Sudbury District Services Board (MSDSB), said Fern Dominelli, CAO of the DSB, last ...

TORONTO—The Escarpment Biosphere Conservancy (EBC) is asking for public support in relating concerns to the Minister of Natural Resources (MNR) in regards to the provincial government having abandoned providing funding for land conservation. A story published in the Niagara Escarpment Views Winter 2012-2013 edition notes, “land trusts attempt to continue to conserve nature reserves, despite the virtual stop ...

MANITOULIN--The union representing Rainbow District School Board's elementary teachers (ETFO) has advised the Board that they will be staging a one-day protest on Friday, January 11. Rainbow District School Board has cancelled JK to Grade 8 classes in Sudbury, Espanola and Manitoulin on this day. Transportation is also cancelled for students who attend a Rainbow elementary school. It is important that paren ...

MANITOWANING––James Gee of Manitowaning said he thought the clerk at the Mac’s Milk store where he and his family went to check a scratch and win ticket on Boxing Day must have thought she was in for trouble, as two full carloads of excited family members descended on her store. “The Mac’s store was the only place open on Boxing Day,” laughed Mr. Gee, who was visiting with his daughter and son-in-law Chris ...

As any year, 2012 had its share of ups and downs, highs and lows. There were, however, some notable events last year that merit a mention as we begin 2013. The Manitoulin Centennial Manor, as noted in stories in the final weeks of the year in this paper, was able to negotiate forgiveness of money deemed by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care to have been overpaid by the government during the period wh ...

LITTLE CURRENT––While many commuters across Canada found their travel plans delayed by Idle No More protests, the demonstration at the venerable Little Current swing bridge actually sped up the process of getting off and onto Manitoulin Island on Saturday morning, thanks to the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP). Officers on both sides of the bridge were directing traffic through as soon as the last car had cr ...

SUDBURY––The line in the sand drawn by the provincial government over contract negotiations with Ontario’s 130,000 elementary and secondary school teachers was crossed when the midnight on December 31, 2012 deadline for new contracts to be signed with local school boards passed. Ontario Education Minister Laurel Broten invoked the new powers she was granted in the government’s controversial Bill 115 to anno ...

LITTLE CURRENT—On Monday, January 7 the Northeast Town officially announced the resignation of Mayor Joe Chapman. Mr. Chapman submitted his resignation from his position as mayor effective December 31, 2012. “Mayor Chapman explained that his ever increasing professional and personal commitments are limiting his ability to continue to meet the demands of the mayor’s office at the level that the town and his ...

To the Expositor: The province of Ontario has released its new Great Lakes Strategy. If the Liberal government provides the same support to this strategy as they have afforded the rest of Ontario’s natural resources for the past decade and more then this document is not worth the paper it is written on. You can find the document on the EBR registry or by using this link http://tpt.to/a32hNdD. The governing ...