Opioid crisis has northern mayors seeking meeting with Prime Minister and Premier
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Reported by Richard Coffin
The Northern Ontario Large Urban Mayors (NOLUM) are looking to Ottawa and Queen’s Park for action on the opioid crisis.
The group, which includes the mayors of North Bay, Sudbury, Sault Ste Marie, Timmins and Thunder Bay, is writing to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Premier Doug Ford.
Several interconnected issues are involved, including homelessness, mental health and addictions, and criminal activities.
The letter will highlight a coroner’s report on opioids.
“I think it shows our five northern communities as being amongst the highest, if not the highest when it comes to rates per 100,000 deaths related to opioid overdoses. It’s a very serious issue for all of us in all of our communities,” says Bill Mauro, Mayor of Thunder Bay.
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Transforming FedNor into a standalone agency will become the legacy of the economic crisis of 2020-21, said Melanie Joly, minister of economic development and official languages and minister responsible for FedNor.
Last month’s federal budget included a promise by the Canadian government to make FedNor its own regional, standalone agency, similar to its counterparts that exist across the country.
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A standalone agency is something for which the Northern Ontario Large Urban Mayors (NOLUM) has been lobbying.
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The federal Liberal budget released Monday is being hailed as something for everybody to help individuals, families and businesses emerge in the post-pandemic world.
This is the first full federal budget released by the Liberal government since the pandemic began in the spring of 2019.
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Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland unveiled her first budget Monday, a whopping 739 pages, titled A Recovery Plan for Jobs, Growth and Resilience. Freeland is Canada’s first female in the high-ranking role as finance minister.
FedNor to get equal, standalone status Ensuring the North s regional economic development agency is an equal to other agencies that serve Canada has been important to community leaders like MP Terry Sheehan and Mayor Christian Provenzano.
Author of the article: Elaine Della-Mattia
Publishing date: Apr 20, 2021 • 5 days ago • 4 minute read •
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Putting Northern Ontario on par with other regional economic development agencies across Canada is something that has always been important to Sault Ste. Marie MP Terry Sheehan.
That’s why he’s particularly pleased with Page 66 of the massive 739-page federal budget released Monday that promises to make FedNor a standalone regional development agency.