{"id":113005,"date":"2026-01-26T17:54:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T17:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/113005\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T17:54:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T17:54:27","slug":"treasure-hunt-video-queens-park-hails-cobalt-treasure-hunt-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/113005\/","title":{"rendered":"Treasure Hunt Video: Queen\u2019s Park hails Cobalt treasure hunt win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario Member of Provincial Parliament John Vanthof brought a bit of Northern Ontario to Queen\u2019s Park after one of The Northern Miner\u2019s Great Canadian Treasure Hunt prizes was found near Cobalt, close to where he lives.<\/p>\n<p>The MPP recently rose in the provincial house to celebrate the hunt\u2019s cross-country buzz, saying it offered a rare opening to remind legislators how central mining is to the North.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes when I\u2019m in Queen\u2019s Park in Toronto, the knowledge isn\u2019t as high,\u201d he told The Northern Miner\u2019s anchor,Devan Murugan. \u201cIt was a way to bring people personally into the mining sector.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pressure on the northern Trans-Canada route will only grow as more projects advance, including efforts tied to the Ring of Fire, and he urged faster maintenance, enforcement and long-term upgrades to reduce closures and improve safety for residents, trucking and mine supply chains.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full interview below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ontario Member of Provincial Parliament John Vanthof brought a bit of Northern Ontario to Queen\u2019s Park after one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-113005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-queens","12":"tag-queens-headlines","13":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}