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Article content “We’re not going to give up on that,” Roger Haley, warden of the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville, said Monday. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. “The goal is to encourage both levels of government to pursue the EORN project.” The local representative on the EORN board, however, said that board will not be formally lobbying for a reconsideration. Last week, it was learned that the federal and provincial governments have pulled the plug on the ambitious EORN plan. Known as the Gig Project, it proposes a regional projec...

Article content “We’re not going to give up on that,” Roger Haley, warden of the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville, said Monday. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. “The goal is to encourage both levels of government to pursue the EORN project.” The local representative on the EORN board, however, said that board will not be formally lobbying for a reconsideration. Last week, it was learned that the federal and provincial governments have pulled the plug on the ambitious EORN plan. Known as the Gig Project, it proposes a regional projec...

Article content In a letter to the heads of the region’s municipal councils, the network said the governments made it clear this week that the One Gig project was not in the cards. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. EORN Internet project is dead Back to video Following a video conference with Maryam Monsef, federal minister of rural economic development, and Kinga Surma, Ontario’s infrastructure minister, the EORN said “it was clear that the Gig Project is not part of either government’s broadband plans.” “Each of us expressed our stron...

Article content In a letter to the heads of the region’s municipal councils, the network said the governments made it clear this week that the One Gig project was not in the cards. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. EORN Internet project is dead Back to video Following a video conference with Maryam Monsef, federal minister of rural economic development, and Kinga Surma, Ontario’s infrastructure minister, the EORN said “it was clear that the Gig Project is not part of either government’s broadband plans.” “Each of us expressed our stron...

Article content The 13 mayors in Leeds and Grenville have urged the federal and provincial governments to back a proposal to bring reliable high-speed internet to Eastern Ontario. The mayors of the 10 municipalities in the United Counties along with their counterparts in Brockville, Prescott and Gananoque say the Gig Project, crafted by the Eastern Ontario Regional Network (EORN), is a “game-changer” and the best bet to improve broadband in the area. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Mayors back broadband project Back to video The unanimous su...