Ontario-Northland passenger train. (Courtesy Wayne Shaw, Northeastern Ontario Rail Network)
In the wake of the announcement from Greyhound that it has suspended service in Canada, Ontario announced it is restarting Ontario Northland passenger rail service in the northeast.
The announcement is a more formal announcement based on what was included in the Ontario budget released in March, which included $5 million for planning and design work to bring passenger rail back in service.
Today’s announcement of the initial business case for passenger rail was made by Transportation Minister Caroline Mulroney.
“We know Northeastern Ontario has unique transportation needs,” she said, mentioning in particular the need to access medical services in particular in southern Ontario. Northerners “need a modern, connected transportation network.”
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In Pickering, Ont., a cluster of marshes and swamps south of Highway 401 has become an unexpected battleground, pitting job creation against environmental preservation.
The wetland of willow trees, silver maples and cattails, once protected from development by provincial rules, is now slated to become a warehouse attached to a nearby casino development.
Since 2018, Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative government has used unappealable special orders to allow a host of powerful developers to build in a number of ecologically sensitive areas, bypassing the usual approval process.
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A week after applications opened for Ontario’s small business support grant, approximately 42,000 businesses have applied, the minister responsible for the program said Friday. The announcement comes one day after a report found that many small businesses in the province are on the brink of closure.
Applications for the grant which was announced in December came online three days after Premier Doug Ford declared a state of emergency last week to combat surging cases of COVID-19 and the looming threat from more transmissible variants of the virus.