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nwonewswatch.com | Mike Stimpson
IGNACE – “A lot of community members” turned out for Tuesday’s open house on the deep geological repository (DGR) project, Ignace Mayor Kim Baigrie said.
“We want people to be able to come and learn, educate, ask more questions … and get more involved,” she said while the event’s afternoon information session was in progress.
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1 day ago | 
pentictonherald.ca | Mike Stimpson
FORT FRANCES — Board members of a health care foundation in the Rainy River district are looking for answers, and they’re asking the provincial government to help. Riverside Health Care (RHC), which operates the general hospital in Fort Frances and several other facilities in the district, severed its relationship with the Riverside Foundation for Health Care in early March and announced the hiring of its own fundraising director.
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1 day ago | 
pentictonherald.ca | Mike Stimpson
IGNACE — The selection of five major companies for design and planning work is a big step towards building a huge underground facility for spent reactor fuel in Northwestern Ontario, the Nuclear Waste Management Organization’s Craig MacBride said Monday. The organization wants to build a deep geological repository, or DGR, for long-term disposal of radioactive waste from Canada’s nuclear power plants.
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1 day ago | 
thespec.com | Mike Stimpson
FORT FRANCES — Board members of a health care foundation in the Rainy River district are looking for answers, and they’re asking the provincial government to help. Riverside Health Care (RHC), which operates the general hospital in Fort Frances and several other facilities in the district, severed its relationship with the Riverside Foundation for Health Care in early March and announced the hiring of its own fundraising director.
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1 day ago | 
thespec.com | Mike Stimpson
IGNACE — The selection of five major companies for design and planning work is a big step towards building a huge underground facility for spent reactor fuel in Northwestern Ontario, the Nuclear Waste Management Organization’s Craig MacBride said Monday. The organization wants to build a deep geological repository, or DGR, for long-term disposal of radioactive waste from Canada’s nuclear power plants.
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2 days ago | 
kenoraminerandnews.com | Mike Stimpson
Advertisement 1Author of the article: • Local Journalism Initiative • Article contentThe selection of five major companies for design and planning work is a big step towards building a huge underground facility for spent reactor fuel in Northwestern Ontario, the Nuclear Waste Management Organization’s Craig MacBride said Monday.
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2 days ago | 
nwonewswatch.com | Mike Stimpson
FORT FRANCES — Board members of a health care foundation in the Rainy River district are looking for answers, and they’re asking the provincial government to help.
Riverside Health Care (RHC), which operates the general hospital in Fort Frances and several other facilities in the district, severed its relationship with the Riverside Foundation for Health Care in early March and announced the hiring of its own fundraising director.
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2 days ago | 
nwonewswatch.com | Mike Stimpson
IGNACE — The selection of five major companies for design and planning work is a big step towards building a huge underground facility for spent reactor fuel in Northwestern Ontario, the Nuclear Waste Management Organization’s Craig MacBride said Monday.
The organization wants to build a deep geological repository, or DGR, for long-term disposal of radioactive waste from Canada’s nuclear power plants.
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3 days ago | 
thespec.com | Mike Stimpson
PIKANGIKUM — Water issues in Pikangikum First Nation are the same now as 39 years ago, Chief Paddy Peters said Monday. “I was elected into office (for) my first term as chief when I was 30 years old,” he said in an interview via Zoom. “And what we’re going through right now … those (issues) were on the table when I began as chief, when I was 30 years old. “Today I’m 69 years old. I was re-elected into office in January of this new year, and the same issues are still on the table.
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3 days ago | 
thespec.com | Mike Stimpson
KIIWETINOONG — Viewing the James Bay Treaty was an “emotional” experience for Sol Mamakwa, MPP for Kiiwetinoong. The New Democrat’s riding is mostly within the territory of the treaty, also known as Treaty 9, and the land includes his home First Nation. He recently visited the Archives of Ontario in North York and saw the 1905 treaty up-close there. “It was a very interesting visit,” Mamakwa said in an interview Friday.
