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Future of cadet glider program in Northern Ontario concerns NDP MP

A Northern Ontario federal New Democrat hopes we’re not seeing the end of a glider program for air cadet squadrons.  Charlie Angus is worried that cuts are coming to the program in North Bay and Iroquois Falls after a glider program was shutdown in Thunder Bay.  The Timmins-James Bay MP says if this happens then air cadets will have to go to Southern Ontario to take the training.  Angus wants assurances from the Department of Defence that the northern program won’t disappear.

Rocco Frangione
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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