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Community Lens

This category features Northern Ontario community reporting, focusing on the intersection of local life, policy, and emerging technologies shaping the region’s future. Coverage includes nuclear energy news, nuclear waste management, nuclear waste storage, and developments such as the Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada’s Used Nuclear Fuel Project, alongside environmental monitoring, land use, and regional infrastructure planning. It also highlights artificial intelligence in the arts, digital equity, and creative technology adoption in northern and rural communities, as well as food security initiatives, local agriculture, and community resilience programs. Reporting emphasizes Indigenous and rural perspectives, economic development, environmental stewardship, and the social impacts of major infrastructure and innovation projects across Northern Ontario, including communities in and around Melgund Township.

Arts programming rooted in northern communities supports healing through storytelling, creative practice, and shared cultural expression processes.
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May is Mental Health Awareness Month

Community-led initiatives continue shaping mental health conversations through art, dialogue, and intergenerational knowledge exchange across regions.
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Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) manages the delivery of the UK’s first Geological Disposal Facility (GDF). The UK Government’s GDF siting process requires Nuclear Waste Services to identify both a suitable site and a willing host community
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Events: Get to Know Nuclear Waste Projects Around the World

Lessons from the UK reveal how engagement, transparency, and long-term thinking are essential in decisions affecting generations.
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Ontario nonprofits must adopt by-laws early, defining how decisions, meetings, and responsibilities will function internally.
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Hosting Your First Nonprofit Board Meeting

The first board meeting sets up governance systems, roles, banking authority, and operational foundations for nonprofits.
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The first nonprofit board meeting in Ontario is required but does not need public advertising whatsoever. Ontario law only requires notice to directors, not the public, for initial organizational board meetings.
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First Board Meetings for Ontario Nonprofits

This meeting establishes governance foundations like by-laws, officers, banking, and internal operational decision-making structures.
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Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) manages the delivery of the UK’s first Geological Disposal Facility (GDF). The UK Government’s GDF siting process requires Nuclear Waste Services to identify both a suitable site and a willing host community
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May 6: Learn about Nuclear Waste in the UK

You are invited to Get to Know International Collaboration and Projects Around the World featuring the United Kingdom (UK) Geological Disposal Facility (GDF). This special…
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Residents gathered in Dyment for a well-attended presentation examining the proposed Deep Geological Repository for Canada’s used nuclear fuel and its potential local impacts.
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Melgund Township Hosts Nuclear Waste Presentations

Community Presentation in Melgund Township Highlights Nuclear Waste Proposal and Regulatory Oversight Residents of Melgund Township and Dyment gathered on Saturday morning for a special…
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Challenges in the Non-Profit Sector
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Challenges in the Non-Profit Sector

Chronic Funding Challenges Amid Rising Demand Canada’s nonprofit and charitable sector delivers essential services across health care, social support, housing, education, community development, and more.…
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IAAC Open House: Drop In and Learn More on April 22
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IAAC Open House: Drop In and Learn More on April 22

Take part in an Open House session on April 22, 2026 in Melgund Township with the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada.
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Revell DGR: Indigenous and Transboundary Concerns
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Revell DGR: Indigenous and Transboundary Concerns

Indigenous Nations and transboundary groups oppose the Revell DGR, citing ignored jurisdiction, fragmented project scoping, and inadequate consultation.
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Revell DGR: Transportation and Socio-Economic Impacts
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Revell DGR: Transportation and Socio-Economic Impacts

The NWMO's attempt to exclude transportation and marginalize neighboring unorganized territories from the Impact Assessment threatens project legitimacy.
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Latest Local News

  • Government of Canada announces beginning of proposed Nuclear Waste DGR Impact Assessment
  • Share Your Insights on Nuclear Waste, Diet and Land Use
  • Tiny Details, Big Possibilities
  • Colours to Dye For: Rob Franklin’s Tie-Dye T-Shirts Steal the Show
  • Summer Arts: Wild Clay Experiment Shows Promising Early Results

Nuclear Waste Management

The Nuclear Waste Management Organization is inviting residents and land users in the area of Canada's proposed Deep Geological Repository for used nuclear fuel to participate in a Diet and Land-Use Survey. The information collected will help inform local perspectives as the project moves through the federal regulatory process.

The survey can be completed online or through an in-person interview at the Ignace Learn More Centre. It is open until September 7, 2026, and participants will have the opportunity to enter a draw to win one of twenty C$125 gift cards redeemable at local businesses.

ART BORUPS CORNERS SOCIETY

Art Borups Corners is a non-profit arts incubator based in Melgund Township, Northwestern Ontario. We bring artists, youth, and local residents together through hands-on creative projects, workshops, and storytelling rooted in everyday life in the North. Our focus is on making space for people to try things, share skills, and build confidence through art that grows out of where they live.


We’re also a place for testing ideas and working across different ways of making — from land-based practice to digital work and everything in between. Much of what we do happens through partnerships and shared projects, connecting local creative work with wider conversations while keeping things grounded, practical, and community-led.


BN: 790519573RC0001

ESTABLISHED WITH FUNDING FROM

Canada Council for the Arts Digital Greenhouse Logo

This program was seeded with funding from the Canada Council for the Arts Digital Greenhouse program. This program allowed us to explore strategic arts innovation, capacity building and new technologies. Programming was also supported by the OpenAI Researcher Access Program, the Ontario Arts Council Multi and Inter-Arts Projects Program and the Province of Ontario. We thank them for their support.

PROGRAMMING SEEDED BY

Ontario Arts Council Multi and Inter-Arts Projects Program
Ontario Arts Council Multi and Inter-Arts Projects Program
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