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Municipalities in Ontario should get a cut of HST from gasoline and diesel to pay for infrastructure city council says. Council voted Monday to back a proposal from CAA asking the province to use part of the $1.53 billion HST from gas to fill a $3.

The city’s debt is down and reserves are up council heard Monday night. Consolidated financial statements ending Dec. 31, 2010 state the city’s debt is $169.9 million, that’s down from $182.1 million in 2009. While that’s a $12.

An information-only report got councilllors considering the city’s boards and committees Monday. The report looked into whether or not remuneration for members of the city’s various boards and committees should be indexed for inflation.

Michael Fox’s first priority as Webequie First Nation’s newly appointed Ring of Fire senior director is to form a communications strategy.

A stretch of Strathcona Avenue will close to through traffic on Wednesday, the city announced recently. The section of Strathcona, from Hodder Avenue to Spruce River Road, will be closed to through traffic from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The Thunder Bay branches of the Northern Lights Credit Union are treated like poor cousins despite doing as much business as all the other regional branches combined, says a union representative. At 8 a.m.

AbitibiBowater has promised to invest millions of dollars to restart an idled Ignace sawmill, but the deal won’t go ahead without the consent of the local labour union.

Stacie Logan said her first clue something wasn’t right was the smell of burning wire. Logan is the resident manager at an Adelaide Street apartment complex that firefighters evacuated Monday afternoon because of an intense fifth-floor blaze.

Thunder Bay Police Service’s Andy Hay has become the force’s second in command. Members of the Thunder Bay Police Service Board announced that Hay would become the city’s deputy chief of police on Monday.

Police charged a 36-year-old-woman in connection to a stabbing that took place over the weekend. Thunder Bay Police Service officers responded to an alleged stabbing around 5 p.m. in the Picton Avenue area Sunday.