With a warmer start to winter and low levels of precipitation, road crews in northern Ontario have been working vigorously to get the routes to remote First Nations ready, even having to make their own snow. Here are the challenges faced by communities and their ideas on how to make roads more sustainable.
Withdrawing agricultural land from Ontario’s Greenbelt for development in Pickering threatens the national urban park painstakingly built around the Rouge River in Scarborough and Markham, Parks Canada says.
Riot, a 3-year-old Dutch shepherd, was shot Nov. 25 after he was attracted by a deer carcass, his owners believe, was used to bait coyotes on a neighbour’s property.
The Ontario government is in the “early stages” of developing a strategy to deal with old oil and gas wells in the wake of recent disasters, including an explosion last summer that decimated downtown Wheatley and injured 20 people.