On the way, the Northern Policy Institute keeps working to help northwestern Ontario grow amid its challenges, and a chat with Hydro One about why Kenora is without power for Sunday morning.
We’ll also look at a new classroom for Seven Generations Education Institute.
But first, it’s been unofficially on for a few months, but now election season is officially underway following the Prime Minister’s visit Wednesday to the Governor-General asking for Parliament to be dissolved.
The first leaders’ debate was Thursday night in Toronto, put on by Maclean’s magazine/City TV. The candidates were asked about trade, the economy, Indigenous issues and foreign policy.
Locally, Sheri Leviski-Kotyk has this run down.
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Peoples’ Party leader Maxime Bernier adds he’d like to discuss immigration, as well as balancing the budget, saying that’s needed for future generations. That, in turn, would lead to lower taxes, saving Canadians about $35-billion a year.
And, he wants to spend less money overseas, and more on Canadians.
Switching now to Kenora, where we find people are in the dark.
Hydro tells us they’ve worked to make sure the outage is affecting people for as little amount of time, using the greatest amount of people to get the work done.
Tim Davidson spoke to Hydro One and Synergy North.
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Next, we take a look into the challenges facing the growth of northern Ontario.
The Northern Policy Institute is examining trends such as labour market and demographics, especially among Kenora, Thunder Bay and Rainy River districts.
It also looked at how Indigenous people can fit into future growth.
With that, Mike Ebbeling reveals some of the findings of the agency’s final report.
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Students at Seven Generations Education Institute are now enjoying classes at a new campus near Fort Frances.
An official opening ceremony took part last week, celebrating classes enabling students to learn their language, culture and live traditions of their ancestors.
They also noted it’ll teach non-Indigenous students why certain things such as the drum ceremony is used, among other cultural aspects.
Randy Thoms was there and has this report.
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