Indigenous community in northern Ontario receives $1.8M to boost high-speed Internet coverage

PARRY SOUND, ON – Wasauksing First Nation and nine institutions in northern Ontario will soon get online with new or improved high-speed Internet thanks to a joint federal-provincial investment of $1.8 million.The funding was announced Tuesday by Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Navdeep Bains and Ontario Minister of Energy and Member of Provincial Parliament for Sudbury Glenn Thibeault at Wasauksing First Nation.According to the announcement, $1.03 million will come from the federal government’s Connect to Innovate program; $62,000 will come from the Government of Ontario, through the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation; and $708,000 will come from other contributors.“We are...