As the Ontario Hockey League Sudbury Wolves made good use of their affiliation with the Sudbury Northern Jr. Wolves of the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League last season, the Soo Greyhounds could develop as many as four of their ‘06 draft picks within the NOJHL this coming season.
OHL draft picks who saw time with the [...]

Ontario’s Liberal government is helping Pepsi peddle soft-drinks to elementary school kids, suggests the province’s civil service union. 
Leah Casselman, president of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union, objects to the fact that Pepsi sponsors and has its logo splashed all over the government’s Ontario Parks website at www.campsite24.ca. 
The website is aimed at elementary school aged [...]

The apparent death of yet another Canadian peacekeeper, Major Paeta (Wolf) Hess-von Kruedener, in Lebanon this week will undoubtedly fuel debate in this country over how far our armed forces can and should go to help stabilize war-ravaged nations around the world. 
Major Hess-von Kruedener, a Kingston resident, was one of four United Nations observers stationed in a U.N. post in [...]

This is somewhat of a new beginning for the Northern Ontario Jr. Hockey League.
NOJHL governors took the bold step of voting out commissioner Art Yeo at its early June annual general meeting with five of the league’s seven teams voting in favour of searching for a new leader.
Yeo was termed an ineffective leader by many of those who [...]

Conservative leader John Tory is spending the week in Quebec with his wife Barbara Hackett to attend an intensive, French language boot camp.
One of the early knocks against Tory was his inability to speak French.
Ontario has a large Francophone and French-speaking population and having a working knowledge of both official languages is considered a political [...]

There’s a reason some MPPs languish on the backbench.
Liberal MPP Mario G. Racco, who represents Thornhill, a bedroom and bungalow riding that sits on Toronto’s northern boundary, was forced to issue a public apology this week for suggesting Ontario has nothing to learn from the bumpkins down east.
Not, at least, when it comes to consumer [...]

Conservative leader John Tory has launched a website to save the Trillium – not the distinctive, white, three-petal perennial that serves as the emblem and official flower of the Province of Ontario but the stylized logo the government prints on its stationary, annual reports, driver licences and new photo health cards.
Tory isn’t happy about Liberal [...]

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As of Friday July 14, participants will be [...]