Ontario’s Minister of Northern Development and Mines is stepping aside temporarily to cope with depression. Michael Gravelle has also asked the Premier to find a replacement in the interim. Gravelle was diagnosed with depression last year and kept the matter private while he tried to fight it off. But the MPP for Thunder Bay-Superior North says he hasn’t been able to shake off a feeling of uneasiness he’s had for months. Gravelle is 68.
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Gravelle temporarily stepping down as MNDM minister
Rocco Frangione
I've been a broadcast journalist for three-plus decades in Northern Ontario. I'm a graduate of Algonquin College's radio and television arts program and prior to that, an honours grad from Carleton University's philosophy program.
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