Ontario votes 2022: An overview of the Niagara West Riding

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THE RIDING:  Niagara West is a large, sprawling riding with an interesting mix of rural and urban areas. It includes Grimsby, Lincoln, West Lincoln, Pelham, Wainfleet and parts of St. Catharines, meaning it has a mixture of large towns, smaller villages and lots of farmland. It is the largest riding in Niagara in terms of … Read more

Council Votes: Mayor Jeff Jordan to pay back Grimsby

Grimsby Mayor Jeff Jordan is set to pay the town back as a result of a breach of conduct committed in July 2020. Town councillors voted to have the mayor pay the $1,302.62 assessed cost of the breach by the town’s clerk, at a committee of the whole meeting Feb 16.  The designated amount is … Read more

NOTL mayor excluded as signatory as Niagara mayors support the move to red tier Monday

NOTL mayor Betty Disero

Most of the Niagara community mayors are supportive of the move to the red tier of the province’s framework, anticipated Monday. That is with the exception of the mayor of Niagara-on-the-Lake.

Integrity commissioner deems Grimsby mayor’s actions ‘trivial and without consequence’

Grimsby Town Hall

After an investigation into an integrity commissioner complaint filed by a Grimsby councillor against Mayor Jeff Jordan suggested no corrective action be taken, council voted to further the investigation. At the Feb. 1 committee of the whole meeting, council along with the town’s integrity commissioner Charles Harnick discussed a complaint filed against Jordan by Coun. … Read more

Bylsma makes appeal to West Lincoln residents in the face of growing COVID-19 cases in the township

Dave Bylsma

In the last week, West Lincoln COVID-19 cases have grown to 35.4 cases per 10,000 residents making the township the leader in active cases in the Niagara Region. Calculated against the township’s population of approximately 14,500 residents, the infection rate suggest 51 active cases in the area. Mayor Dave Bylsma said in a statement: “I … Read more

Niagara music scene hopes 2021 will end on a high note

Jazz singer Sammy Jackson

Sammy Jackson was hoping 2020 would be a year full of shows and festivals to promote the release of her sophomore EP. Instead, the music went quiet. Like many artists and musicians, the ongoing pandemic put a road block in front of Jackson’s career goals, but the St. Catharines-based jazz singer said she made the … Read more

Vaccine supply for Niagara to start next week

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Niagara communities will be receiving shipments of the COVID-19 vaccines early next week, with more each week thereafter, said Niagara West MPP Sam Oosterhoff. In a press advisory, Oosterhoff said: “Many in Niagara have raised the urgent need for COVID-19 vaccine in our region. I have spoken with Premier Ford, the Ministry of Health, and the … Read more

Victims of Niagara Region COVID-19 death spike are ‘our most vulnerable fellow citizens’: Hirji

Dr. Mustafa Hirji

Niagara Region has seen two spikes in its COVID-19 death toll in recent days and the people who are dying are residents of retirement and long care facilities, said the region’s acting medical officer. Through the fall, the death toll was holding at around 99. However, over the Christmas weekend, Niagara Region Public Health reported … Read more