Aug 30, 2017 @ 08:06 A Celebration of Life for Norman Roussain will be held at the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 429 on September 6th, 2017 from 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. The Legion ladies will prepare a light lunch. There will be a short Legion service and an opportunity for folks to share memories and laughter and tears with ...
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Statement from Ontario PC Leader Patrick Brown on Ontario’s opioid crisis
In response to a letter sent to Premier Kathleen Wynne by more than 700 health care workers on Ontario’s opioid crisis, Ontario PC Leader Patrick Brown issued the following statement: “The Ontario PCs have been very clear, Ontario is in the midst of an opioid crisis. Between 2006 and 2015, fentanyl overdose deaths in Ontario have soared by 548 per ...
Read More »Car Seats Save Lives
Using the right child car seat is the best way to prevent serious injury or death to children in collisions. Make sure that your child is buckled up right, whether it is in an infant car seat, child car seat, booster seat or with the seatbelt. Legislation makes it mandatory for anyone transporting children to make sure children are property ...
Read More »UPDATE 10:32 a.m. Now Open – Hwy 17 Blocked at Three Ring Road (Wawa to Sault Ste. Marie)
Aug 28, 2017 @ 10:32 – The transport has been removed. Highway is now open. The highway had been closed for 2 1/2 hours. Aug 28, 2017 @ 09:36 – Updated with photos, courtesy of Stéphanie Ouellet. Aug 28, 2017 @ 08:51 Just after 8 a.m. a transport tried to turn around on the highway and ended up ...
Read More »Monday Morning News – August 28
Weather – Mainly cloudy with 30 percent chance of showers. High 21. UV index 5 or moderate. Marine – Wind southeast 15 knots diminishing to southeast 10 near noon then becoming light near midnight. Wind becoming southwest 10 Tuesday evening. Waves one metre subsiding to one half metre or less this afternoon. News Tidbits – Business is almost back to normal after a ...
Read More »UPDATE 9:45 a.m. – Vehicle Collides with wall of Valumart
Aug 27, 2017 @ 09:45 At 9:11 a.m. another update to the situation at John’s ValuMart was posted to FB. Johns Valumart is open for business today. We ask the public to please be patient as there is limited access to the produce area. We are working as quickly as possible to restore the produce department back to normal. Please ...
Read More »Au Canada, nous devons tout faire pour éviter la politique raciale amère
Une voiture qui fonce sur des contre-manifestants antiracistes dans un rassemblement de militants pour la suprématie blanche à Charlottesville, en Caroline du Nord, montre bien à quel point les tensions raciales s’intensifient au sud de la frontière. La réaction du président Trump — qui a blâmé les deux côtés — n’a rien fait pour apaiser la situation. Les propos du ...
Read More »Canada should do all we can to avoid bitter racial politics
The car attack on counter-protesters at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, North Carolina highlights the rising temperature in race relations that is taking place south of the border. The response from President Trump – assigning blame to both sides – did little to calm the situation. Instead, the President only ratchetted up the idea that America is increasingly divided ...
Read More »Tips to keep your kids safe
The Kirkland Lake Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) reminds parents that they have an important role to play in ensuring their children’s safety with strangers. The obvious conversation that parents should have with their children is to teach them stranger danger. Strangers don’t always have a rough appearance and can appear to be perfectly normal. Here are some important tips for ...
Read More »Sunday Morning News – August 27
Weather – Mainly cloudy. 30 percent chance of showers this afternoon. High 20. UV index 5 or moderate. Marine – Strong wind warning in effect.Wind southeast 10 knots increasing to southeast 15 early this morning and to southeast 20 early this evening. Wind diminishing to east 15 overnight. Wind east 15 Monday.
Read More »Today is the Great Trail Opening Ceremony!
The Great Trail is a trail that goes from one end of Canada to the other, and we are lucky that here in Wawa, Ontario, we have a section of the trail that passes through us. There are land and water trails, and our section is a beautiful water trail that goes from Naturally Superior Adventures (NSA) to Buck’s ...
Read More »Tenaris Receives $2 million in Tenaris Algoma Tubes’ modernization project in Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation (NOHFC)
Ontario is securing jobs in Sault Ste. Marie by supporting upgrades to the Tenaris Algoma Tubes seamless pipe mill. Glenn Thibeault, MPP for Sudbury, made the announcement yesterday in Sault Ste. Marie on behalf of Michael Gravelle, Minister of Northern Development and Mines at Tenaris Algoma Tubes. The province’s investment in plant upgrades will help to lower operating costs and improve ...
Read More »Saturday Morning News – August 26
Weather – Sunny. High 20. UV index 6 or high. Marine – Strong wind warning in effect. Wind light becoming southeast 10 knots this evening then increasing to southeast 15 Sunday morning. Wind increasing to southeast 20 Sunday evening. Waves less than one half metre building to one Sunday morning and to 2 Sunday evening. News Tidbits – There may be some delays ...
Read More »How Others See Us
My lawnmower was acting up, and my handy son number one (who can fix anything) took a look and diagnosed, “It needs a new spark plug” – and out he went to purchase one. When he returned, he had a big grin on his face. “Mom, there is a red German “Feuer wehr” van in front of Canadian Tire, you ...
Read More »Men’s Night Golf – August 24
87 Players 1st FLIGHT: Scott Carruthers, Bill Carruthers-5 under par 31 2nd FLIGHT: Spencer Hall, Jarret Asselin, Anders Morden-3 under par 33 3rdFLIGHT: Al MacDonald, James Morden, Jeff Lamon-2 under par 34 4th FLIGHT: Eric Mitrikas, Victor Sillanpaa, Tony Thomas-3 under par 33 5th FLIGHT: Andre Bedard, Kevin Auger, Don Humphries-1 under par 35 6th FLIGHT: Spike Spreng, Joey McCoy, ...
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