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Des leaders positifs à l’ÉS Saint-Joseph!

  Dans le cadre du cours de Leadership – activités récréatives, les élèves de l’école secondaire Saint-Joseph (Wawa), guidée par leur enseignante Mme Annette Lytwenko, ont étudié les divers styles de leadership et comment les intégrer lors d’une activité récréative.   Le groupe d’Alexis Chapman, Emma-Jo Beach et Delaney Schumacher ont assuré la planification et la mise en oeuvre d’une ...

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Harte Gold Announces $24.8 Million Strategic Investment by New Gold

Harte Gold Corp.  is pleased to announce that New Gold Inc. has agreed to make a strategic investment in Harte Gold.  The investment, by way of a private placement subscription by New Gold of 154,940,153 common shares of the Company at a price of $0.16 per share, will result in Harte Gold raising total gross proceeds of approximately $24.8 million ...

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Statement from the Chief Public Health Officer of Canada on March 21, 2021

In parts of Canada, variants of concern represent an increasingly high proportion of cases, and are being associated with a greater number of outbreaks. This is a crucial moment. If we can keep up with personal protective measures and limit our contacts for a final push to keep COVID-19 infection rates down as vaccine programs scale up, we can keep ...

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Chief Owen and Pikangikum Band Council expel OPP, Indigenous Services Canada flies out nursing staff nightly

Chief Dean Owen and Pikangikum Band Council acted quickly and decisively yesterday to expel the Ontario Provincial Police Force amid allegations for incidents involving constables that occurred in the Community over many years. “Pikangikum needs to know about potential threats to our Community, especially when that threat comes from the people we entrust to protect our members,” said Pikangikum Chief ...

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2020-21 Mixed Curling Standings

The Wawa Curling Club would like to thank everyone who helped make the 2020-2021 Season Happen. COVID-19 definitely changed the Curling Season with new rules on and off the ice. We are looking to a more traditional season come this November. Team Rank Wins G.P. TERRIS, Tom 1 7 7 HOFFMANN, Jim 2 6 7 HALL, Dave 3 2 7 ...

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the Bored Room: Maker North

The Northern Outlet is pleased to announce the Bored Room guest for this Saturday, March 20th at 4 PM is Maker North. Participants will get an inside look at how to make 3D products. They’ll overview tools, real-world experiences and it will provide an opportunity to learn about graphic design and Additive Manufacturing. Algoma youth ages 13-18 are welcome to ...

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Batchewana First Nation to receive License for96 bed LTC Facility

Today, the Ministry of Long Term Care has announced that Batchewana First Nation will receive a license for a Long Term Care Facility for 96 beds for elders. The First Nation has been working for decades to improve housing opportunities for many elders within the community who don’t have options for an on-reserve home care facility. Research conducted by the First ...

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Ottawa Public Health Region Moves to Red (Friday, March 19, 2021 at 12:01 a.m.)

Ottawa goes red - control

In consultation with the Chief Medical Officer of Health, the Ontario Government is moving the Ottawa Public Health region to the Red-Control level in the Keeping Ontario Safe and Open Framework. The decision was made at the request of the local medical officer of health due to the concerning trends in public health indicators in the region. “Our government is ...

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APH – 2 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 (#218-#219)

Algoma Public Health (APH) is reporting 2 new cases of COVID-19. One is from Sault Ste. Marie and area and 1 is from Central & East Algoma. Through contact tracing, Algoma Public Health notifies all close contacts directly. If you are not contacted by Algoma Public Health you are not considered a close contact.   Details of the confirmed cases: ...

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St. Joseph French Immersion – Closed March 18-19

Due to a recurring plumbing issue the Huron-Superior Catholic District School Board will be closing St. Joseph French Immersion Catholic Elementary School in Wawa tomorrow (Thursday, March 18) and Friday, March 19th. The issue is a recurrence of the main sewer pipe leading from the facility being plugged with ice. This facility is shared with Conseil scolaire catholique du Nouvelon, ...

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École Saint-Joseph (Wawa) closed until Friday, March 19, 2021

The health and safety of students and employees remain CSC Nouvelon’s top priority. Due to frozen pipes in various parts of École Saint-Joseph (Wawa) affecting various parts of the school once again, École Saint-Joseph will be closed for all students from Kindergarten to grade 12 on Thursday, March 18. Students will not be attending school on Friday, March 19, as ...

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WAVS & Senior’s at Risk Committee – Fraud Fighting 101

The Competition Bureau of Canada has published The Little Black Book of Scams 2nd Edition and it is available online at https://www.competitionbureau.gc.ca/eic/site/cb-bc.nsf/eng/04333.htm. The information is invaluable and should be of interest to virtually everyone.  Over the next few months, WAVS & Senior’s at Risk Committee will be publishing information regarding one type of scam each week with all of the ...

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Comité WAVS & Senior’s at Risk – Lutte contre la fraude 101

Le Bureau de la concurrence du Canada a publié Le Petit livre noir des escroqueries 2e édition et il est disponible en ligne à https://www.competitionbureau.gc.ca/eic/site/cb-bc.nsf/eng/04333.htm. Les informations sont inestimables et devraient intéresser pratiquement tout le monde. Au cours des prochains mois, WAVS & amp; Le comité des seniors à risque publiera chaque semaine des informations concernant un type d’escroquerie avec ...

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Notice to Customers – Possible Ransomware attack on 3rd party contractor

FortisOntario was made aware on March 14, 2021 of a possible ransomware attack on a third-party contractor that prints bills and provides certain electronic billing services for customers of Canadian Niagara Power, Eastern Ontario Power, Algoma Power and Cornwall Electric. At this point, we are not aware of any personal information of our customers that has been inappropriately accessed. FortisOntario ...

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