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Wawa Man arrested for breaching release conditions

Dec 22, 2017 @ 10:03 On Wednesday December 20, 2017 at approximately 7:15 pm members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Superior East (Wawa) Detachment responded to a Wawa address regarding a report of a male breaching his release conditions. As a result a 28 year old Wawa, Ontario male was arrested and charged with: Adult Fail to Comply with ...

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Wawa Mixed Curling Standings – December 22

Dec 22, 2017 @ 08:32 Team Rank Wins G.P. TERRIS, Tom 1 6 6 LESCHISHIN, Mark 2 5 6 BOYD, Katherine 3 4 7 HOFFMANN, Jim 3 4 6 HALL, Jennifer 5 3 7 SZEKELY, Marc 6 2 6 McCOY, Joe 7 1 7 SPENCER, Reg 7 1 7 Schedule for Thursday -January 11, 2018 Ice 1 Ice 2 Ice ...

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Jamie McDonald is Coming Back!

Dec 22, 2017 @ 08:06 Jamie McDonald? Who is Jamie McDonald? Perhaps you should ask who was that costumed man who ran across Canada?   Jamie McDonald ran across Canada costumed as a superhero raisingmore than £250,000 for children’s charities in the UK and Canada in a bid to give back to the charities that supported him as an unwell ...

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Friday Morning News – December 22

Dec 22, 2017 @ 07:56 Weather – Cloudy. 40 percent chance of flurries. Wind becoming south 20 km/h this morning. High minus 8. Flurries are expected tonight. Local amount 5 cm. Low minus 16. Roads – 2017-12-22 – early morning report 101 Timmins to Highway 144 bare and dry road 2017-12-22 2:13 101 Highway 144 to Shawmere River bare and ...

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Men’s Curling – December 19

Dec 21, 2017 @ 09 Team Rank Wins GP TERRIS, Tom 1 6 6 LESCHISHIN, Mark 2 5 6 McCOY, Joe 3 3 6 HOFFMANN, Jim 3 3 7 MOORE, Bruce 3 3 7 YOUNG, Paul 6 2 6 DERESKI, Louis 6 2 7 GAMES SCHEDULE – January 8, 2018 Ice 1 Ice 2 Ice 3 Ice 4 Hoffmann Young ...

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Now 4 advocacy groups working on returning passenger rail service to Northeastern Ontario – a louder voice!

Dec 21, 2017 @ 09:22 The Northeastern Ontario Rail Network (NEORN) is delighted that the government has announced that bus service will be improved in Northern Ontario. However, reinstatement of passenger rail should also be a priority. An integrated transportation system means a truly multimodal strategy, where travel by road, rail, and air all have their role. What we have ...

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Consumers Reward Points to be protected from expiring January 1st, 2018

Dec 21, 2017 @ 09:14 Beginning on January 1st, 2018, consumers in Ontario will be protected from losing their reward points that they have been saving up, and the change is retroactive to October 1st, 2017. The province examined the terms of over 50 different programs when drafting the regulations. If a reward points program issues vouchers, they will be ...

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Male Identified in Tuesday evening Collision South of Wawa

Dec 21, 2017 @ 08:48 On Tuesday December 19, 2017, at approximately 11:15 pm members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Superior East (Wawa) Detachment with the assistance of the Algoma District Emergency Medical Service (EMS) and the Wawa Fire Department responded to a single motor vehicle collision on Highway 17 approximately 45 Kilometres south of Wawa.   The driver ...

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BC Man charged with Driving with Impaired

Dec 21, 2017 @ 08:31 On Tuesday December 19, 2017 at approximately 10:40 am members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Superior East (Wawa) Detachment responded to a single motor vehicle collision near the intersection of Highway 17 and 101. At the scene police observed that the male driver’s ability to operate a motor vehicle was impaired by drugs. As ...

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Ontarians can’t trust Wynne to reform OEB

NDP Economic Development critic Catherine Fife said that while an in-depth review of Ontario’s Energy Board is urgently needed, Ontarians don’t have faith in the Wynne Liberals to follow through on much needed reform to the province’s hydro system.   “By announcing this review, Kathleen Wynne is acknowledging what Ontarians have been saying for years: Ontario’s energy system is broken, ...

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Ontario Increases Maximum Fines

Dec 21, 2017 @ 08:21 As of December 14th, 2017, Ontario has increased the maximum fines for an offence under the Occupational Health & Safety. $25,000 to $100,000 for an individual or unincorporated business (which had not changed since 1979) $500,000 to $1,500,000 for corporations (which had not changed since 1990) In addition, Ontario has also changed the time limit ...

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Thursday Morning News – December 21

Dec 21, 2017 @ 08:06 Weather – Cloudy with 30 percent chance of flurries. High minus 11. Tonight will bartly cloudy. Low minus 18. Roads 2017-12-21 – early morning report 101 Timmins to Highway 144 bare and dry road 2017-12-21 2:15 101 Highway 144 to Shawmere River bare and dry road with snow packed sections. 2017-12-21 2:15 101 Shawmere River ...

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2017 Festival of Lights – A Bright Success

Dec 20, 2017 @ 08:58   The 2017 Festival of Lights was a bright and beautiful success amazing the organizers! In the community of Wawa over 344 homes were decorated, and 44 entered the competition. Businesses were not to be left out with the BIA showing off their new decorations down Mission Road and Broadway Avenue, and 6 businesses taking up ...

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Hwy 17 one lane open (50kms south of Wawa)

Published on: Dec 20, 2017 @ 08:40 – On Tuesday December 19, 2017 at approximately 11:15 pm members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Superior East (Wawa) Detachment responded to a fatal motor vehicle collision located on Highway 17 approximately 45 kilometres south of Wawa in the Brimacombe Township District of Algoma. The lone male driver of the northbound vehicle ...

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