Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver are considered LGBTQ tourism hotspots in Canada, and now two regional organizations are looking to add northwestern Ontario to that list.
Earlier this week, Superior Country and Tourism Thunder Bay announced the completion of a new tourism strategy aimed at making the region a more welcoming and sought-after destination for people in the LGBTQ community.
"This really came about as a way to improve our reputation for being an inclusive destination, which isn't just the ethically right thing to do, but it's also good for business," said Paul Pepe, manager of Tourism Thunder Bay.
What lives in north ontartio, around the northern point of lake superior?
The Great Lakes in general, including Lake Superior, have some of the richest diversity of water-type Pokemon in the world, with abundant populations of Tympole, Basculin, and Squirtle, among others. The region also hosts many large flocks of Corviknight, while Timburr and Axew can be found in the dense forests surrounding the lake. Given the low human population density of Lake Superior's northern shore, it's largely untouched Pokemon habitat, providing a great chance for Pokemon-spotting or catching if you venture out to the region.
The largest city in the area, Thunder Bay, was built with the aid of Timburr from the surrounding area. At night, the city is one of the best places in Canada for watching Illumise and Volbeat. Their nighttime dancing over the lake is renowned as one of the most beautiful sights in Canada.
Lake Superior also supposedly hosts the legendary Azelf; though more sightings have occurred on the American side, there's no shortage of Azelf sightings in Canada. Usually Azelf is found on one of the lake's many islands, though it has been spotted diving in and out of the frigid waters.
"RED RIOTERS ROUTED BY LOYAL JOBLESS," Toronto Globe. June 20, 1933. Page 1.
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Strike Attempt Fails at Thunder Bay Unemployment Camp
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(Canadian Press Despatch.)
Fort William, June 19. - Rioters at the Trans-Canada Highway unemployed camp at Martin, near here, were driven off with a fire hose and hammer handles wielded by camp workers who resented a strike brought on by the discharge of two alleged Communists over the weekend.
Armed with rocks and pick handles, about twenty-five men resisted efforts of police and camp officials to force them to leave the camp. They were joined by thirty more men who quit their work. When police and trusted camp workers drove them off with hammer handles and a fire hose, they retreated from the camp singing "The Red Flag."
[AL: As always coming from an anti-Communist paper like The Globe hard to take seriously their account of this relief camp strike near what is now Thunder Bay, Ontario. Indeed, the second paragraph indicates that a large protest was broken by police aided by scabs, but tells us little about how big the second group of non-strikers was. Don't have access to the local papers yet.]
A short series of photos exploring the graffiti on Cooke St in Thunder Bay Ontario.
Original photography using a Canon EOS RP body with a Canon RF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM Lens and Silver EFEX Pro as a Lightroom plugin for the Black and White conversion.
Brian Carson
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A psychiatrist who treated a renowned Indigenous artist who died at a Thunder Bay, Ont., jail is telling an inquest that inmates received inadequate mental health services at the facility.
Moses Beaver, of Nibinamik First Nation, was found unresponsive in his cell in February 2017 before being taken to the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, where he was pronounced dead.
An inquest into the 56-year-old’s death began earlier this month and could make recommendations that include ways to improve mental health services in Thunder Bay’s jail and across remote First Nations.
Dr. Peter Schubert, who worked as a psychiatrist at the Thunder Bay jail between 2003 and 2018, told the inquest Tuesday that the psychiatric services at the jail didn’t meet the needs of the jail population. [...]