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1 week ago | 
midlandtoday.ca | Ian Ross
Premier Doug Ford said First Nations can’t keep coming “hat in hand” to government for assistance when there’s untapped precious and critical minerals on their traditional lands.
Ford made the comment in St. Catharines, June 18, to announce housing funding from the Building Faster Fund for three Niagara Region communities.
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1 week ago | 
thetrillium.ca | Ian Ross
This article was first published by Northern Ontario Business, a Village Media publication.
Premier Doug Ford said First Nations can’t keep coming “hat in hand” to government for assistance when there’s untapped precious and critical minerals on their traditional lands.
Ford made the comment in St. Catharines, June 18, to announce housing funding from the Building Faster Fund for three Niagara Region communities.
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1 week ago | 
northernontariobusiness.com | Ian Ross
Premier Doug Ford said First Nations can’t keep coming “hat in hand” to government for assistance when there’s untapped precious and critical minerals on their traditional lands.
Ford made the comment in St. Catharines, June 18, to announce housing funding from the Building Faster Fund for three Niagara Region communities.
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1 week ago | 
snnewswatch.com | Ian Ross
TORONTO — Premier Doug Ford said he plans to meet with influential Indigenous leaders this week to smooth over any bitter feelings from First Nations sparked by the passage of his government’s contentious Bill 5.
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1 week ago | 
northernontariobusiness.com | Ian Ross
Premier Doug Ford plans to meet with influential Indigenous leaders this week to smooth over any bitter feelings from First Nations sparked by the passage of his government’s contentious Bill 5.
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1 week ago | 
timminstoday.com | Ian Ross
The impact of the pandemic and the boom in takeout food delivery has spurred the restart of a Port Huron, Mich., paper mill owned by the Veldman brothers’ BMI Group.
Four years after being mothballed, the former Domtar mill in the Michigan border town is coming back to life thanks to a resurgence in the sustainable, lightweight specialty papers used in fast-food restaurant packaging, candy wrappers, medical table covers, tissue overwraps, and other sustainable uses.
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2 weeks ago | 
northernontariobusiness.com | Ian Ross
The impact of the pandemic and the boom in takeout food delivery has spurred the restart of a Port Huron, Mich., paper mill owned by the Veldman brothers’ BMI Group.
Four years after being mothballed, the former Domtar mill in the Michigan border town is coming back to life thanks to a resurgence in the sustainable, lightweight specialty papers used in fast-food restaurant packaging, candy wrappers, medical table covers, tissue overwraps, and other sustainable uses.
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3 weeks ago | 
northernontariobusiness.com | Ian Ross
Sterling Metals, a junior miner that’s probing around a former copper mining camp, north of Sault Ste. Marie, made an impressive hit on its very first drill hole this spring.
The Toronto exploration outfit pulled a lengthy core sample showing 359.3 metres of copper mineralization, grading 0.36 per cent, taken at its Soo Copper Project in the Batchewana Bay area, 80 kilometres north of the city.
The discovery was made just 14 metres below surface.
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4 weeks ago | 
timminstoday.com | Ian Ross
Northern Ontario’s large city mayors will conditionally support the Ford government’s controversial Bill 5 provided that Ontario honours and respects Indigenous treaties.
"We had assurances from the premier directly that those treaty rights would be upheld,” said North Bay Mayor Peter Chirico.
Chirico was part of the Northern Ontario’s Large Urban Mayors (NOLUM) delegation, involving the mayors of Sault Ste.
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1 month ago | 
thetrillium.ca | Ian Ross
Under the right conditions, $3 billion in capacity-building funding from Queen’s Park would be welcomed by First Nations, said Wabun Tribal Council executive director Jason Batise, “but in this case, the nations can’t be bought that way.” While the Ford government’s messaging this week — to triple funding through the Indigenous Opportunities Financing Program and expand the eligibility to include critical minerals, energy and pipeline development — was intended to be a positive one, the...
