Provincial news for Ontario
Ontario plans to spend $933 million to create more beds — including 288 in the Niagara region — in long-term care and upgrade facilities in the sector that’s been devastated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Last summer, the ticking lull of a grandfather clock inside of Marsha Rempel’s Welland farmhouse became a tone of foreboding, counting down the remaining seconds of Rempel’s time on her family’s farmland.
Niagara Region Public Health and Niagara Health have vaccinated approximately 1,500 educators who directly support students with special needs.
The provincial and federal government are spending $330,000 to support research projects that increase capacity and productivity in the horticultural sector at the Vineland Research and Innovation Centre (VRIC).
Niagara West MPP Sam Oosterhoff has confirmed he will be headlining an anti-abortion event titled “Gen Z: Challenging Abortion in Politics” for a student-run university group that has compared abortion to the Holocaust.
Daylight saving time for 2021 will begin at 2 AM Sunday morning, March 14. The clocks roll forward an hour in Ontario and across most of Canada.
WELLAND – Niagara College has started accepting applications to Ontario’s new accelerated training program for Personal Support Workers. The program, which is tuition-free for the first 6,000 students, is part of the Ontario government’s $115 million investment to train up to 8,200 …
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The Ontario government is introducing a new bill to help connect more rural communities in Niagara to reliable, high-speed internet sooner.
BEAMSVILLE – The Ontario government is providing over $16.4 million in new provincial funding to help municipalities in Niagara with ongoing COVID-19-related operating costs.
Niagara police are investigating a robbery of a St. Catharines Avondale store by an armed man early Monday morning and they are seeking the public’s help.