By Jacqueline St. Pierre, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Manitoulin Expositor MANITOULIN\u2014Most people didn\u2019t feel the ground shift under their feet when Canada\u2019s federal map was quietly redrawn in 2022. It wasn\u2019t until spring arrived \u2014 and election signs began sprouting like stubborn weeds along Island highways and main streets \u2014 that the new reality took hold: the landscape had changed, and with it, the stakes. The new Sudbury East\u2013Manitoulin\u2013Nickel Belt riding, stitched together from the remnants of three old constituencies, was born almost overnight. It now sprawls across 32,000 square kilometres, gathering Sudbury west of Highway 144, the full Manitoulin District, and part of Sudbury District near Lake Huron and stretching east to include Sturgeon Falls, while surrendering Nickel Centre and Wanup to a redrawn Sudbury riding. Northern Ontario,… <\/p>\n
By Jacqueline St. Pierre, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Manitoulin Expositor MANITOULIN\u2014Most people didn\u2019t feel the ground shift under their feet when Canada\u2019s federal map was quietly redrawn in 2022. It wasn\u2019t until spring arrived \u2014 and election signs began sprouting like stubborn weeds along Island highways and main streets \u2014 that the new reality took hold: the landscape had changed, and with it, the stakes. The new Sudbury East\u2013Manitoulin\u2013Nickel Belt riding, stitched together from the remnants of three old constituencies, was born almost overnight. It now sprawls across 32,000 square kilometres, gathering Sudbury west of Highway 144, the full Manitoulin District, and part of Sudbury District near Lake Huron and stretching east to include Sturgeon Falls, while surrendering Nickel Centre and Wanup to a redrawn Sudbury riding. Northern Ontario,... <\/p>\n