The North Bay Regional Health Centre will receive $6 million in one-time funding for its 2015-16 fiscal year.
Paul Heinrich, the hospital’s president and chief executive officer, said the money will help the hospital implement its improvement plan while minimizing the impact on staffing levels.
Nipissing MPP Vic Fedeli and city council also pressured the province for one-time transitional funding, as well as to adjust the hospital’s financial targets.
Many people are dissatisfied with the provincial government’s record on health care and the province’s pre-budget consultation committee heard all about it. The committee also heard a plea to help Essar Steel Algoma
THUNDER BAY — Economic development, poverty and prisons were just a few topics heard by an all-party provincial budget committee Wednesday.
The Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs heard from more than 20 organizations at the Vahalla Inn. Vic Fedeli said whether it’s tackling homelessness or developing the Ring of Fire, he’s been hearing the same concerns for years without any real action…
Consultations with Ontario communities about prioritizing tax dollars have seen surprisingly high demands for help from food banks and homeless shelters, […]
Hamilton is suffering, and it’s time the provincial government does something about it.
It was a message opposition MPPs, and about 80 people shouted during a rally outside the Sheraton Hotel Jan. 18, while inside, the province’s all-party finance committee held it’s first of five pre-budget public presentations.
Vic Fedeli, MPP from Nipissing, who is on the committee, said cuts are happening across the province in health care to front-line hospital workers
Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa is launching pre-budget consultations as the world’s markets shudder and shake.
QUEEN’S PARK – Nipissing MPP Vic Fedeli is back in the spotlight today, for his role in starting an investigation of the Premier’s Office, which finally resulted in criminal charges.
This morning, Thursday, Dec. 17, the Ontario Provincial Police announced breach of trust and mischief charges against David Livingston, former Premier Dalton McGuinty’s Chief of Staff, and Laura Miller, former Deputy Chief of Staff. Police say the charges are related to their investigation into the Gas Plant Scandal.
The divide between Northern and southern Ontario was tabled at Queen’s Park in black and white on page 185 of the annual Auditor General Report.
Looking at the Ministry of Economic Development and Employment Programs, Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk noted, “The Ministry has a mandate to cover all of Ontario, but has only ever funded one project in northern Ontario (in 2008).
Some good economic news today.
Citing improving markets for rotary hardwood veneer in North America, Gary Gillespie, Vice President of Columbia Forest Products’ Northern Operations, announced this week that Columbia is in the intermediate stages of preparing for a reopening the company’s plant in Rutherglen.
Nipissing MPP Vic Fedeli was thrilled to hear the good news.
So it was welcome news on Monday afternoon to see the three parties of Ontario’s Legislature come together behind a proven solution to this scourge.
Vic Fedeli’s Bill 33 is built on a proven solution in North Bay, a city next door to our Almaguin Highlands where fentanyl overdoses were claiming two lives per year until it was put in place.
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