Funding set for north Ontario's dual campus medical school. (Health).THUNDER BAY Thunder Bay, city (1991 pop. 113,946), SW Ont., Canada, on Thunder Bay inlet of Lake Superior. The city was created in 1970 by the amalgamation of the twin cities of Fort William and Port Arthur and two adjoining townships. -- Ernie Eves Ernest Lawrence Eves (born June 17, 1946) was the twenty-third Premier of the province of Ontario, Canada, from April 15, 2002, to October 23, 2003. Beginnings Ernie Eves was born into a working class family in Windsor, Ontario, in 1946. , Ontario's Premier, today announced that the government is investing $95.3 million in capital and operating funding to establish northern Ontario's first medical school, at Lakehead University Lakehead University, at Thunder Bay, Ont., Canada; founded 1946 as Lakehead Technical Institute. It achieved university status in 1965. Lakehead has faculties of arts and science, business, education, engineering, forestry, library and information studies, nursing, in Thunder Bay and Laurentian University Laurentian University, main campus at Sudbury, Ont., Canada; bilingual, coeducational; founded 1960. Among its faculties are those in astronomy, commerce, computer science, education, engineering, law, mathematics, music, native studies, nursing, physics, and social in Sudbury. The dual campus institution is the first new medical school in the province in over 30 years. The school is expected to train and retain physicians for the North. The funds will be used to support continued development of the medical school over the next three years; to expand the Health Science Education Resource Centre at Laurentian University in Sudbury; and expand the Advanced Technology and Academic Centre at Lakehead University to house the school's Thunder Bay campus. 416-325-7600 |
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