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Cochrane town council wants to explore options for re-opening Greenwater Provincial Park.
The park has been closed to overnight use since 2013 when nine other provincial parks were shut down across Ontario.
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In bringing forward the motion, Coun. Dan Belisle said the pandemic has forced people to stay indoors for extended periods of time, fuelling demand for outdoor recreational activities such as camping. For Cochrane residents, the nearest provincial parks for overnight camping are Kettle Lakes in Timmins and René Brunelle in Moonbeam.
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Canada should be doing a better job in obtaining the COVID-19 vaccines, a member of North Bay council argues.
Coun. Mac Bain told members of council Tuesday that he was not criticizing the efforts of the federal and provincial governments in his call to bring Canada into the top five per cent per capita by Aug. 1 globally.
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And while Canada has administered the vaccine to more than one-third of the nation’s population, “we are further behind than other countries,” he said.
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Following the approval this week of a more than $105,000 increase to the city’s insurance premium, a North Bay councillor plans to make an appeal to the provincial government to investigate this continued trend which he says has “hammered” municipalities.
Council approved a contract Tuesday evening to renew its comprehensive general insurance with Frank Cowan Company Ltd., in partnership with Kennedy Insurance Brokers Inc., for a premium of nearly $1.17 million, plus HST, for a one-year term starting May 1.
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The premium, excluding taxes, is $105,148 greater than the previous year.