Provincial news for Ontario
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 new personal support workers (PSWs) for high-demand jobs in Ontario’s health and long-term care sectors. … Read more
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.
Two new cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Niagara schools.
Hotel providers in the Niagara Region and across Ontario could be called on to join help fight against human trafficking.
Kim McQuhae of Gryphon Ridge Highlands is a rare breed among Niagara’s farmers. In Niagara-on-the-Lake, on 10 acres of land sandwiched between lucrative vineyards, McQuhae is breeding hardy, rustic bulls and cows hailing from the Scottish Highlands.
The Canadian electricity sector’s ability to withstand extreme weather events fuelled by climate change is a “work in progress,” says the head of the industry group representing power generation and transmission companies.