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KENORA — If you spend time driving between this northwestern Ontario community and Winnipeg this is news you’ve long been waiting for.

The twinning of the TransCanada Highway between Kenora and the Manitoba border is one significant step closer to becoming a reality. Ontario Transportation Minister Caroline Mulroney joined First Nations leadership and Indigenous Affairs Minister Greg Rickford in signing a Memorandum of Understanding with Niiwin Wendaanimonk, a partnership of four First Nations with interests in the project area on Wednesday, Feb. 5.

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Widening the highway will reduce travel times through highway corridors, critical trade links and international gateways.

“It’s a significant event for Kenora, but also for the north, for the communities that have come together and work collaboratively with the provincial government to move forward on something that people have been looking at for a long time,” Mulroney said on Wednesday.