After the latest blast of snow from Mother Nature, a couple political parties are targeting winter road maintenance.

The Northern Ontario Party wants the MTO to take back responsibility of winter maintenance from contractors while the NDP, during Question Period this week, called on the government to make northern highways safer by improving winter maintenance standards.

In the past week there have been a couple fatal crashes around the north.

Closer to home, North Bay OPP responded to 29 collisions from Tuesday to mid-morning Wednesday.