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This region’s worst joke has officially been taken too far. Representatives from the City of Kenora are currently in the provincial capital for this year’s Rural Ontario Municipal Association (2025) conference. Canada will announce today that it has reached a “milestone” agreement with 15 ...
KDSB acclaims chairs for 2025 | Kenora Miner
1 day ago · The Kenora District Services Board (KDSB) has announced the acclamation of both its Board Chair and Vice Chair. On Jan. 17, the KDSB board officially re-acclaimed Red Lake Mayor Fred Mota to remain as the organization’s Board Chair, while Dryden Mayor Jack Harrison was acclaimed as the ...
‘Milestone’ deal reached with 15 First Nations on Ring of Fire …
3 days ago · The agreement, finalized by the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada, establishes the terms under which the regional assessment will be conducted, a required environmental study that applies to all new resource developments and expansions. That process analyses the potential economic and environmental effects of proposed industrial activity or expansion of existing resource-extractive projects.
Kenora Breaking News | Local & National Headlines | Kenora Miner
Jan 6, 2025 · New seniors complex on the way to former Northlands property. The former Northlands building, located at 216 Matheson St., is set for an important facelift: during Sept. 20’s council meeting, city councillors approved a by-law zoning amendment which will allow Kenora District Services Board (KDSB) to move forward with their plans for a new seniors complex complete with a pharmacy and retail ...
Miner and News | Kenora Miner
The Mount Evergreen rental building has been officially renamed in honour of the Kenora Kinsmen, and for good reason. Representatives from the City of Kenora are currently in the provincial capital for this year’s Rural Ontario Municipal Association (2025) conference. The Government of Ontario has ...
Kenora District Jail one of 'the largest homeless shelters in the ...
6 days ago · “Something that we are seeing that is really concerning to us is that individuals are literally being dropped off outside the shelters in Kenora and Sioux Lookout who are being released from the justice system out of Thunder Bay and they are being shipped over to the shelter system in Kenora and Sioux,” Wall said back then. “We’re seeing individuals just show up, be it in taxis or ...
Kenora News | Latest Local Headlines | Kenora Miner
The Kenora District Services Board (KDSB) has announced the acclamation of both its Board Chair and Vice Chair. The Wiikwogaming Tiinahtiisiiwin Project Team, also known as the Grassy Narrows Unmarked Grave Project, says it has discovered 114 potential unmarked graves at the former McIntosh Indian ...
People on the streets in Kenora are 'choosing to be homeless,' …
Jan 15, 2025 · At their Jan. 14 committee of the whole (COW) meeting, Kenora’s City Council was paid a visit by Henry Wall, the chief administrative officer of the Kenora District Services Board, which in addition to certain services like childcare and paramedicine, is largely responsible for various housing programs across the region.
Gears in motion at City Hall to double water and sewer rates over …
Oct 16, 2024 · The average rate increase is somewhere around 4 per cent annually, but some have also implemented increases as high as 10 per cent, he said. Based on decisions made in Sept. 2020, up until now the City of Kenora has been leaning on a year-over-year increase of 3.1 per cent for its water and wastewater utility rates, which were originally planned to be locked in through to the end of 2026.
Could Kenora be Canada's next Walkerton? Don't rule it out
Nov 7, 2024 · With the plan being designed as a 10-year-long project, Council heard that the proposed increase would result in the average customer’s water bill jumping from around $1,826 to $4,244 per year by 2034, and that businesses would see …