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Manitou Gold Provides Exploration Update

Manitou Gold Inc. has issued an exploration update on its 100% owned properties located North of Wawa, Ontario in the Michipicoten Archean Gold Camp. They are reporting that results of up to 79.9 g/t Au from outcrop grab samples were returned from the Renabie-Easy Lake Property; and that targets with highly prospective alteration and mineralization similar to that of the historic ...

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CF Ontario Announces the 2019 Recipient of the Award for Excellence in Innovation

  Community Futures Ontario (CF Ontario) is pleased to announce Northeast Superior Regional Broadband Network (NSRBN) as recipient of the Award for Excellence in Innovation honoured at the 26thAnnual CF Ontario Conference in London, Ontario (this year held in partnership with EconoUs). Northeast Superior Regional Broadband Network (NSRBN), recognizes that access to adequate and affordable broadband is essential to supporting ...

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NDP calls for immediate action to crack down on vaping

NDP Health Critic France Gélinas is calling for urgent action to crack down on the marketing of vaping – and warns that Doug Ford’s Conservative government is moving in the wrong direction. “Now more than ever, we need to heed the warnings of health experts raising serious concerns about this product: crack down on advertising, ban flavoured vapes designed to ...

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Three Confederation College Alumni to Receive President’s Awards in Recognition of Remarkable Achievement

  Confederation College is honouring three alumni for their remarkable achievements by presenting each of them with a President’s Award. Al Bourbouhakis, Melissa Hardy-Giles and Thomas McDonald were acknowledged at the 24th Annual Community Partners’ Evening  Thursday, September 19. “These individuals are wonderful exemplars of what can be achieved with great passion, commitment and leadership,” said Kathleen Lynch, President of ...

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The Anishinabek Police Service – Garden River Detachment Thanks All who helped in Last Night’s Search

The Anishinabek Police Service, Garden River Detachment, would like to extend their sincerest thanks to their partnering agencies, those being the Sault Ste. Marie OPP, OPP ERT, OPP K-9, Batchewana Police Service, Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry, the Garden River Fire Department, SSM EMS, SSMPS K-9 Unit and the SSM Search and Rescue for their assistance in the successful ...

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Proper funding for long-term care, not cuts, protects seniors with dementia: NDP

The Ontario NDP critic for Seniors, Joel Harden, and the critic for Long-Term Care, Teresa Armstrong, released this joint statement following the Ford government’s announcement on safety for seniors living with dementia: “Doug Ford’s cuts are hurting Ontario seniors. Ford is ripping more than $34 million from the province’s long-term care sector. He’s hiking resident co-pays while his cuts force ...

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Graduation Rate Continues to Climb at HSCDSB

The Huron-Superior Catholic District School Board (HSCDSB) is proud of its continued increase in graduation rates. The Board takes great pride in the fact that its graduation rate increased from the previous year. At St. Mary’s College, 81% of the Board’s students completed the requirements for their high school diploma within four years; 84% earned their diploma in five years. ...

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Statement by Deputy Premier and Minister of Health Christine Elliott

Today, Christine Elliott, Deputy Premier and Minister of Health, released the following statement: “In light of the growing evidence, I have become increasingly concerned about the prevalence and possible health consequences of vaping, particularly as they affect our youth. At the same time, it has become abundantly clear that we do not have access to sufficient data and information to ...

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Happenings at Wawa First United Church – September 18

The congregation welcomes everyone to Worship at First United Church.  Services are held on Sunday at 11:00 a.m.  If anyone has a question or concern please leave a message on the answering machine at the Church 705-856-2926. Sat.   Sept.   21   Prayer Shawl Ministry  – 3 p.m. Sun.   Sept.   22   Official Board Meeting Sun.    Sept.  29    Morning Worship in Chapleau to hear ...

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The Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre (SRSC) launches the results of the “Healing and Education Through Digital Access”

The Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre (SRSC) has launched the results of the “Healing and Education Through Digital Access” project funded by the National Heritage Digitization Strategy. This project received $86,890 in funding to digitize and make available unique archival records which document the early years of the Shingwauk and Wawanosh Indian Residential Schools. By preserving and providing community access to these ...

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Statement by Attorney General Doug Downey on the Opioid Crisis

Today, Attorney General Doug Downey issued the following statement regarding Purdue Pharma: “In May, the Ontario government introduced legislation to support Ontario’s participation in the national class-action lawsuit British Columbia launched last year against more than 40 opioid manufacturers and wholesalers. Since then, our government has been monitoring with considerable interest the recent developments in the U.S. litigation concerning the ...

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Premier must step in to help families in Neskantaga under state of emergency

Kiiwetinoong MPP Sol Mamakwa, the NDP’s Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation critic, is calling on the Ford government to take action to help the people of Neskantaga First Nation following the federal government’s refusal to evacuate families facing contaminated water flowing through their taps, after the community’s water pump and back up water pumps broke down.   “It is appalling that ...

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Letter – Wawa has joined the throw away world

Dear Brenda, For the third time in 10 days, I’ve heard this story There a rooster on the loose at SPG, There’s a rooster half-starved and on the loose out by the greenhouses I caught a starving rooster out by the dump can you take it. So what gives Wawa? You all get on the “organic is better” bandwagon. Order ...

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