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Ontario Hubs: Repopulating the North

The Agenda with Steve Paikin

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Northern Ontario communities have been battling a decline in population for years. But certain new initiatives and work trends aim to change that. Our Ontario Hubs journalists, Jon Thompson and Claude Sharma, along with field producer Jeyan Jeganathan join Steve Paikin to explain why more people are moving to cities such as Thunder Bay and Smooth Rock Falls.

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Jan 11, 2019

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