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Niagara College Public Relations student earns national CPRS honour

For the fourth time in five years, a student from Niagara College’s Public Relations Graduate Certificate program has received top national honours from the Canadian Public Relations Society.

Jacob Pozzobon of Niagara Falls received the Notified Student Award of Excellence on May 26 at the CPRS National Conference in New Brunswick.

“I am so truly honored for this recognition and to represent the College well on such a scale,” said Pozzobon.

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Local

One stolen vehicle leads NRPS to bust multimillion-dollar auto theft racket

An investigation launched by the Niagara Regional Police Service (NRPS) in April 2025 following the theft of a single Lexus SUV turned into a complex investigation into organized auto theft networks operating across Southern Ontario.

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Sports

Big news surrounding the Niagara IceDogs

The Ontario Hockey League (OHL) has announced that the league – as of now – is taking over both the business and hockey operations of the Niagara IceDogs Hockey Club.

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National

More risks for the CPP

The Canada Pension Plan is an essential part of retirement income for the vast majority of Canadians. Yet most Canadians are not aware of the many changes that have taken place since the CPP was first created in 1965.

 

National

Canadians still don’t know the details of our new strategic partnership

Prime Minister Mark Carney spent the week avoiding questions about the Canada-China memorandum of understanding (MOU) on policing.

Provincial

Are B.C. politics a harbinger of things to come nationally?

An old saying suggests that trends originate in California and gradually migrate eastward. Cultural values, fashion trends, and business models frequently trace their roots back to the West.

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Business

Dow Canada president ‘extremely proud’ of Alberta expansion

Dow Canada president Skya Kruithof has spent much of his career in the United States, but says that as a Canadian, he’s “extremely proud” of what the company is doing in Alberta.

Official groundbreaking of Spring Creek Transformer Station occurs in Lincoln

Local

Sam Oosterhoff, MPP for Niagara West and Associate Minister of Energy-Intensive Industries, released a statement on the groundbreaking of a new municipal transformer station in Lincoln on Friday. Once complete, Oosterhoff says the new transformer station will add much-needed energy capacity and increase energy resiliency for customers in the Niagara West area.

Niagara Peninsula Energy is investing over $35 million to build the new station, which will step down power from an adjacent Hydro One Networks transmission line to support three existing transformer stations, located in Smithville, Vineland, and Beamsville. The transformer station is expected to provide an additional 102 megawatts of electricity distribution to Lincoln and West Niagara.

The transformer station’s construction will be managed by Black & McDonald, a Canadian contractor, and is expected to be completed by 2029.

City of Niagara Falls earns national recognition at 2026 MSDO Awards

Local

The City of Niagara Falls has received national recognition for its work to modernize municipal service delivery.

The city was honoured by Municipal Service Delivery Officials’ Canada with the 2026 Excellence in Transformation Award for its At Your Service Niagara Falls initiative. The award was presented at the 2026 MSDO National Conference.

 

 

 

Niagara will once again welcome thousands for unique sporting events this spring and summer

Sports

There is no doubt that the Niagara Region is known worldwide as a sports hub or destination.

The 2022 Canada Summer Games and improved infrastructure including Canada Games Park and the Neil Campbell Rowing Centre on Henley Island in Port Dalhousie solidified that.

New long-term care home officially opens in Niagara-on-the-Lake

Local

The Radiant Care Pleasant Manor long-term care home has officially opened in Niagara-on-the-Lake. The redevelopment added 160 new long-term care beds to the facility.

 

 

Keep the snowbirds flying!

Opinion

I hope most Canadians were as appalled as I was when I heard the Carney government was going to ground the Snowbirds, the fabulous Royal Canadian Air Force aerobatic team that has existed under the Snowbirds name since 1971.

 

TiCarney must urgently repeal the Online Streaming Act

National

Trade negotiations between Canada and the United States have been at an impasse for months. Instead of trying to bridge that divide, Carney government bureaucrats recently made a decision that threatens to derail negotiations even further.

NFL schedule release creates controversy

Opinion

U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping may have met on May 14 and May 15 to discuss how each will manage its sphere of global hegemony, but the worldwide church of football fans was far more transfixed on the release of the NFL schedule at 8:00 p.m. on May 14.