Regional Municipality of Niagara

Niagara 2021 Canada Summer Games Postponed Due to the Ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic

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Wednesday, September 16, 2020
Canada Games, Regional Municipality of Niagara, Niagara, Events, Sports

OTTAWA, ON, Sept. 16, 2020 /CNW/ -The Canada Games Council (CGC) and the 2021 Canada Games Host Society, after consulting with the Niagara Region, the Province of Ontario and the Federal Government, have made the difficult decision to postpone next year's Niagara 2021 Canada Summer Games.

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  • OTTAWA, ON, Sept. 16, 2020 /CNW/ -The Canada Games Council (CGC) and the 2021 Canada Games Host Society, after consulting with the Niagara Region, the Province of Ontario and the Federal Government, have made the difficult decision to postpone next year's Niagara 2021 Canada Summer Games.
  • By postponing the Niagara Canada Games, we will be able to better protect the health and safety of Games participants, the Niagara community and visitors from across the country, while delivering an extraordinary Games experience.
  • We will be reviewing options for new dates for the Canada Summer Games to take place during the summer of 2022 in the Niagara Region."
  • The Canada Games Council, as a private, non-profit organization, is the governing body for the Canada Games.

Niagara Region named most secretive municipal government in Canada

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Monday, October 15, 2018
Canadian Association of Journalists, Canadian Journalists for Free Expression, Ombudsman, St. Catharines, Government, Regional Municipality of Niagara, CAJ, Freedom of information laws by country, Niagara, Ethics, Human behavior

ST. CATHARINES, ON, Oct. 15, 2018 /CNW/ - The Regional Municipality of Niagara is the 2018 recipient of the Code of Silence Award for Outstanding Achievement in Government Secrecy in the category of municipal government.

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  • ST. CATHARINES, ON, Oct. 15, 2018 /CNW/ - The Regional Municipality of Niagara is the 2018 recipient of the Code of Silence Award for Outstanding Achievement in Government Secrecy in the category of municipal government.
  • The award is given annually by The Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ), Centre for Free Expression at Ryerson University (CFE), News Media Canada and Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) to call public attention to government departments and agencies that put extra effort into denying public access to government information to which the public has a right under access to information legislation.
  • This past year has seen Regional Municipality of Niagara as the subject of two Ontario Ombudsman investigations: the first, for an unlawful seizure of a reporter's notes at a council meeting, and most recently, suspicions of a tainted hiring process for a high paying chief administrative officer job.
  • The coalition of press-freedom groups will announce the federal and provincial recipients of this year's Code of Silence awards in the weeks to come.