Members of the Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association are currently participating in an administrative job action that prevents them from entering comments on report cards; however, our board’s teachers will be providing marks and learning skills levels on students’ report cards and students will be receiving them as scheduled.  For classes where marks are not usually entered (e.g., full-day kindergarten, ...

Today, Christine Elliott, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health, released the following statement on Ontario’s preparedness for the new coronavirus in Ontario: “I want Ontarians to know that their health and wellbeing is my top concern. While the risks posed by this new coronavirus to Ontarians remain low, the province is actively monitoring and is fully prepared to respond. To ...

With Snowmobile Safety Week underway this week, the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) has released a ten-year data report on snowmobile fatalities, which officers hope will encourage snowmobilers to avoid the recurring behaviours that contributed to the majority of the incidents over the past decade. During the past 10 snowmobile seasons (2009-2019), the OPP has investigated 175 snowmobile fatalities throughout the ...

  En décembre 2020, les élèves de la 4e année de la classe de M. Eric Comtois à l’école Saint-Joseph (Wawa) ont participé à un projet d’écriture. Afin de souligner le temps des Fêtes, les élèves ont écrit et envoyé des cartes de Noël aux soldats affectés dans le sud du Soudan.   Au retour du congé de Noël le ...

  In December 2020, students in grade 4 of Mr. Eric Comtois’ class at École Saint-Joseph (Wawa) participated in a writing project. To mark the holiday season, students wrote and sent Christmas cards to Canadian soldiers posted in southern Sudan.   Returning from the Christmas break on January 6th, an unexpected email awaited the École Saint-Joseph administration team. Task Force ...

Steve Clark, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, announced 27 joint projects to be funded through the Municipal Modernization Program at the 2020 Rural Ontario Municipal Association (ROMA) conference which wrapped up in Toronto today. “Our government is working with our municipal partners to make life more affordable, deliver smarter government services, create a more competitive business climate and build rural Ontario ...

Today, Stephen Lecce, Minister of Education, issued the following statement regarding the Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association (OECTA) one-day province-wide strike: “We fully recognize the negative impacts teacher union escalation is having on families. It is why we are calling on these union leaders to end these strikes, given the adverse effects on students and financial hardship on parents. While ...

Today, Stephen Lecce, Minister of Education, issued the following statement in response to the lack of report cards for elementary students: “Yet again, teacher union leaders are risking student success and preventing parents from seeing valuable information about their child’s performance in class. It underscores our government’s insistence that teacher union leaders cancel these strikes that are hurting our kids. And ...

Team Rank Wins GP FAHRER, Tom 1 8 10 TERRIS, Tom 2 7 9 LESCHISHIN, Mark 2 7 10 McCOY, Joe 4 4 10 MITRIKAS, Erik 4 4 10 RODY Ron 4 4 10 TERRIS, Travis – ESC 7 3 10 BUMSTEAD, Aaron 8 2 9 ESC = Ecole St. Joseph Skip Travis Terris Next Games – Monday, January 27, ...

The Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association (OECTA) has announced that all of its members will be engaging in a one-day full withdrawal of services on Tuesday, January 21. This means teachers in publicly funded Catholic district school boards across Ontario will not be reporting to work or performing any of their duties. The previously announced administrative job action will remain ...

Special weather statement in effect for: Wawa – Pukaskwa Park White River – Dubreuilville Significant snowfall amounts expected Saturday through Sunday morning. An approaching low pressure system will bring snowfall to Northeastern and Far-Northeastern Ontario starting overnight Friday night and will continue until Sunday morning. Total snowfall amounts of 10 to 15 cm are expected. Strong winds gusting up to ...

Team Rank Wins G.P. TERRIS, Tom 1 8 9 McCOY, Joe 2 7 9 KLOCKARS, Anna Lisa 3 5 8 HALL, Dave 4 4 9 HOFFMANN, Jim 4 4 8 BUCKELL, Chris 6 3 9 LESCHISHIN, Mark 6 3 9 TURMELLE, Katherine 8 1 9 Games – Thursday, January 23, 2020 at 7 p.m. Ice 1 Ice 2 Ice 3 ...

Ontario Northland and Teamsters Canada Rail Conference Maintenance of Way Employees Division (TCRC MWED) are pleased to announce a tentative labour agreement has been reached. Teamsters Canada Rail Conference MWED represents over 125 employees maintaining 700 miles of track in the areas of northern Ontario and northwestern Quebec from Moosonee, Hearst, Timmins, Cochrane, Englehart to Rouyn-Noranda, North Bay and many ...

The Wawa Christmas Hamper Fund wishes to thank the following businesses, services, donors, schools and volunteers, for their generosity this past Christmas.  Together we helped 125 families and singles with a Christmas dinner and gifts to put under the tree. Your support was very much appreciated. Businesses: Aviation Forest Fire Emergency Services, Bargain Shop, Bodylines by Crack, Broadview Home Inspection, Brookfield Power, Canadian Tire, École Escalade, École ...

Now that we are in January, that reminds us about 75 years ago when our veterans had almost liberated the South of the Netherlands, and were planning for the spring 1945 operations. In the meantime life for the Dutch in the big cities was getting really bad and people were cutting up any wood scraps they could find to burn. And the ...