Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry

Conservation officers are front-line heroes who protect Ontario’s natural resources – and they are demanding fair compensation for the work they do. President Warren (Smokey) Thomas sent a letter to Hon. John Yakabuski, Minister of Natural Resources and Forestry, calling on him to direct ministry managers to say yes to reclassification and compensation that is……

In a letter to the editor of the Windsor Star, President Warren (Smokey) Thomas shared a reader’s concern about enforcement of fishing rules. His letter appeared in the October 3 print edition of the Windsor Star, calling on the provincial government to hire more conservation officers to enforce laws related to natural resources protection in……

A group of 18 OPSEU members is going to Oregon to help fight wildfires that have ravaged that region for weeks.  The members, who hail from the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF), are accepting the deployment on a voluntary basis for a term of two weeks.  “The world and its daily non-COVID……