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We celebrate Diwali every year – and this year’s party at the Northern College gymnasium was everything we hoped for: loud, warm, colourful and full of joy. Friends and neighbours from many different cultures came together, and for an evening the whole place felt like one big, happy family. From the first lights to the […]

Diwali is here – and we’re ready to light up the night! Join us tonight for our annual Diwali party: a warm, colourful evening of music, dance, sweets and good company. Every year our community comes together to celebrate the Festival of Lights, and this year promises to be bigger and brighter than ever. Expect […]

After five weeks on the picket lines, a tentative agreement was announced Wednesday that would bring Ontario’s college support staff back to work. The deal, reached between the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU), which represents more than 10,000 full-time college support workers, and the College Employer Council (CEC), follows a weekend of private talks […]

A loud, proud parade of striking workers filled downtown Timmins Wednesday morning – whistles blasting, chants ringing out, and passing drivers honking in support. More than 70 people from three unions – transit, postal and college support staff – marched together from Spruce Street to City Hall and back, calling for fair contracts and showing […]

Transit drivers and support staff in Timmins are preparing for a strike that could begin Saturday unless talks with the City of Timmins produce what they call “fair wages.” The union returns to the bargaining table Friday morning, and members say the rising cost of living has pushed them to the brink. “We’re paying rent, […]

Support workers at Collège Boréal and Northern College have been on the picket line since midnight Thursday, pressing for stronger job security as negotiations with employers stall. In Timmins and across campuses, classes are still running, but picket lines now stand outside Northern’s Second Avenue office and Collège Boréal’s Thériault Boulevard campus – a visible […]

Timmins weathers trade storm as gold and mining firms find opportunity When global trade tensions spike, Timmins’ business community feels the ripple – but local experts say the city is showing its resilience. The recent U.S.- Canada tariff dispute has pushed investors toward perceived safe havens, and gold has been one of the biggest beneficiaries. […]

Why the temporary foreign worker program is suddenly at the centre of Canada’s jobs debate When Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre called this week for the federal government to shut down the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP), he framed it as a straightforward argument: Canadian youth are struggling to find work, and employers are hiring temporary […]

OTTAWA – Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on the federal government to shut down the temporary foreign worker program, arguing it’s partly responsible for the growing number of young Canadians out of work. Standing in Mississauga with Calgary MP Michelle Rempel Garner – his party’s immigration critic, who has recently been publicly naming companies […]

Workers who support the Deaf, Deafblind and hard-of-hearing in Cochrane, Iroquois Falls, Matheson and Timmins are back on the job after an 11-week strike. The small team returned to work on July 14, following a new collective agreement that was ratified on July 9. Bobbie-Jean Dacosta, an employment consultant and spokesperson for the group, said […]