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Oakville MP Anita Anand in the spotlight

One year ago, Anita Anand was selected as Oakville’s Liberal candidate for the 2019 federal election. She connected electronically with Oakville News to talk about her “whirlwind” year that saw her elected, appointed to a ...

Kinza Rizvi on Food Network’s Junior Chef Showdown

For Kinza Rizvi, there has never been a time when she wasn’t cooking. “I would like to stir the bowl by myself, I would not let anyone else do it,” she says.

Top Animation School in the World is Sheridan College

For the second year in a row, Sheridan has been named the number one animation school in the world, according to Animation Career Review’s 2020 rankings of the top institutions, excluding the U.S.

Hiring for Changing Companies in Changing Time

If you are a business leader, chances are you are working hard to figure out how to keep your business going. For the short term, this may involve hiring people with different skills that you ...

Spring Programs Cancelled – 800 part-time staff laid off

Given the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and continued need to take action to curb the spread of the virus in our community, the Town of Oakville announced today that it is cancelling all Spring recreation and ...

Increasing Public Health Units’ Capacity to Stop COVID-19

To support public health units’ extensive efforts to stop the spread of COVID-19, Ontario is taking further action to redirect existing resources to focus squarely on the fight against this new virus while allowing for ...

Week 2: Work from home Lessons

As I head into my third week of social distancing, I feel like I have learned some valuable lessons in this work from home adventure.

Working from Home – set boundaries to make it work

There are times when working from home means keeping an eye on your phone but you don’t really expect to actually start or finish anything. Working from home for three weeks is different. I don’t ...

International Women’s Day 2020 – March 8th

As Member of Parliament for Oakville and on behalf of the Government of Canada, I’d like to wish everyone a happy International Women’s Day.

2020 Young Women in Leadership accepting Applications

The 2020 Young Women in Leadership Program (YWIL) pairs young women with mentors from the community, giving them the opportunity to gain a role model and shadow successful women in the workplace.