Grand Erie Public Health was born on the first day of 2025, the result of months of merger talks between the health units that had overseen Haldimand-Norfolk and Brantford-Brant. A week later, as staff were still setting up their new email accounts, the measles virus appeared in the largely rural community southwest of Hamilton. That  […]

Hydroelectric dams on public lands are at growing risk of failure because the department responsible for them has no engineers, inadequate funding and no safety rules, an internal document warns. The document, obtained by Canada’s National Observer through an Access to Information and Privacy request, calls the state of affairs “unsustainable” at the Ministry for […]

According to Carrie McKenzie, the CEO/head librarian with the Carlow Mayo Public Library in Hermon, the library recently applied for and received a $20,000 Learning and Engagement Accelerator Fund grant from The Commonwell Mutual Insurance Company to put in new technology and STEM for the kids.  McKenzie comments to Bancroft This Week about this new […]

Oxford County is advising the public that personal and private information collected by some programs and services was compromised as part of the County’s cyber incident discovered in September 2025.  In a press release, the county said it has been conducting a comprehensive review of current and archived files and records to determine who was […]

Expense documents released by Brant’s Catholic school board — covering staff and trustee travel since 2022 — show most claims were standard and unremarkable, even as the board continues to grapple with the fallout of the much-publicized Italy art trip. Stemming from a trip in the summer of 2024, the board racked up close to […]

Brandon University has released a first-of-its-kind resource designed to make it easier for survivors of intimate partner and sexual violence in rural, remote and northern Manitoba to find help, no matter how far they live from major centres. The new Rural, Remote and Northern Manitoba Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Resource Guide brings crisis lines, […]

There are two new positions proposed in the 2026 budget: one in the Clerk’s department and one 30-hour/ week position in Recreation. Human Resources Kayla Best updated council on staffing levels. She showed numbers from the past three years, and also comparisons by department to two other unnamed municipalities. Southgate’s numbers were large, similar to […]

First-year students in the Veterinary Technology program at Northwestern Polytechnic (NWP) Fairview campus got an eleventh-hour reprieve in time for Christmas.  “With the benefit of time and further discussion with local partners” NWP has developed another option for its first-year vet tech students who, like the rest of the campus and faculty, were shocked to […]

The original Picton Terminals site is divided into two parcels, one zoned MX-Industrial, and the other zoned RU1, or Rural. That portion also happens to sit in Sophiasburgh, while the first parcel is in Hallowell. In 2018, Ontario Superior Court Judge Wolf Tausendfreund ruled that the only legal non-conforming use permitted on the Sophiasburgh property […]

Doug Ford’s plan to turn Niagara into a global tourism powerhouse could have some major effects on Niagara-on-the-Lake, though it’s unclear at this time what’s in store for the small town neighbouring Niagara Falls, the region’s biggest tourism draw at the moment. The province’s new “Destination Niagara” strategy aims to generate an extra $3 billion […]

Significant changes to how council meetings are conducted and organized were the topic of major discussion during the Village of Kaslo’s December 9 council meeting.  CAO Robert Baker presented the key updates appearing in the revised Council Procedures Bylaw, which council gave first and second reading.  The bylaw sets out rules for how meetings are […]

Two men who boldly held up the Greenhill Tavern in Crowsnest Pass last Thursday remain at large and investigation of the armed robbery is ongoing. The robbery unfolded around 1 a.m. when the pair entered the bar armed with bear spray. After pointing it at staff, they made off with a large amount of Canadian […]