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NWO sees $60,000 in Restart funding

By Ryan Forbes Dec 8, 2022 | 4:41 AM


Ontario and Ottawa pledged $505 million to support municipal transit services across Ontario.

The federal and provincial governments are providing about $60,000 to municipalities in northwestern Ontario, as communities continue to recover from the effects of COVID-19.

The Ontario government says $505 million in funding will be split between 107 municipalities in Ontario to help municipal transit systems with revenue losses, operating expenses, provincial transit priority projects and providing on-demand transit services.

– City of Kenora – $20,072
– City of Dryden – $19,238
– Town of Fort Frances – $5,000
– Municipality of Machin – $9,142
– Municipality of Sioux Lookout – $5,000

The Municipality of Red Lake and the Township of Sioux Narrows-Nestor Falls did not receive any funding. The City of Toronto, meanwhile, received a high of $347 million.

Ontario’s original Safe Restart funding provided $1.6 billion in municipal transit funding to Ontario’s 444 municipalities in 2020. Two years ago, Kenora received close to $1 million, while Dryden saw $450,000 and Sioux Lookout received $325,000.

Ontario provided a second round of Safe Restart funding in 2021 with another $500 million investment. Across the northwest, we saw about $670,000 split between the region.