As you are likely aware, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (known as CUPE), has announced that its members will be on strike/or walkout on Friday, Nov. 4, even if the Ontario government proceeds with passing legislation to impose a contract. For the Algoma District School Board, this union includes our custodial and maintenance employees and our cafeteria employees in ...

After thoughtful consideration, the Huron-Superior Catholic District School Board has made the decision to limit access to schools this Friday if the political protest takes place by CUPE employees.  This means that students are not to attend school this Friday, November 4th.    CUPE represents many workers in the board, including school and board office clerical,caretakers, dayworkers and maintenance staff, ...

Shine the Light on Woman Abuse is a registered trademarked public awareness campaign of the London Abused Women’s Centre. The campaign was launched in 2010 in London, Ontario, Canada and continues to spread across our country and beyond. The goals of the Shine the Light on Woman Abuse campaign are: to raise awareness of men’s violence against women by turning ...

Pleins feux sur la violence faite aux femmes est une campagne de sensibilisations du public déposée du centre London’s Abused Women’s Centre. La campagne a débuté en 2010 et continue à travers notre pays et au-delà. Les buts du campagne Pleins feux sur la violence faites aux femmes sont : sensibiliser les citoyens à la violence des hommes contre les ...

  Over the past few weeks, students from École secondaire catholique Trillium (Chapleau) registered in the Journey in the Catholic Faith (Cheminement dans la foi catholique) course have lent a hand to Pastor Dan and his team. As part of a community initiative led by the Pentecostal Church of Chapleau, the students took part in the organization of an auction ...

  Au cours des dernières semaines, les élèves de l’école secondaire catholique Trillium (Chapleau) inscrits au cours de Cheminement dans la foi catholique ont prêté main-forte à Pastor Dan et à son équipe. Dans le cadre d’une initiative communautaire menée par l’église pentecôtiste de Chapleau, les élèves se sont impliqués dans la mise sur pied d’une vente aux enchères visant ...

Algoma District School Board (ADSB) Director of Education Lucia Reece and Trustee Russell Reid (on behalf of Chair Jennifer Sarlo) accepted a generous donation from United Steelworkers (USW) Local 2251 at the Regular Board meeting held on November 1, 2022. Mike Da Prat, President of USW Local 2251, and Assistant Debbie Logan donated $14,750 to the ADSB Student Nutrition Program ...

Through the Afro-Heritage Association of Sudbury (AHA), the Northern Ontario Black Economic Empowerment Program (NOBEEP), received $1.15 million in funding from FedNor. This fund is to aid NOBEEP in supporting Black-owned businesses in Northern Ontario in their efforts to start up and scale up as well as to create jobs to contribute to the overall economic development of the North. ...

  The Wawa Trifecta is a running event that has three races in one weekend (weekend after Thanksgiving). This year’s event went amazing despite some cold and wet weather. If you could not be involved this year, we hope to see you next year. A huge thank you to our 2022 sponsors: Northern Lights Ford, Wesdome Gold Mine and Jon ...

Argonaut Gold Inc. has announced that the Company has closed its previously announced US$250 million Loan Facilities and drawn down the first tranche of US$80 million of the loan facilities which was used to repay the balance outstanding on the former revolving credit facility. The Loan Facilities consist of a term loan of US$200 million and a revolving credit facility of ...

After a two year hiatus the Wawa High School Cross Country Runners are back! Yesterday, October 25th, this tough bunch of athletes competed at NWOSSAA in Thunder Bay. They all had amazing runs and 7 runners advanced to OFSAA. Congratulations to all of our runners! These incredible athletes are coached by Anjali Oberai, Tracy Laing and Mark Szekely.

Junior and Senior Kindergarten students at École Saint-Joseph (Wawa) put their creative and engineering skills to good use when they were challenged to build a platform capable of suporting the weight of their pumpkin. Students were challenged to attain this goal through the use of various items such as tape, sticks, modeling clay, glue and a CD.

Les amis de la maternelle et du jardin de l’école Saint-Joseph (Wawa) ont dû faire preuve de créativité et d’ingéniosité afin de construire une plateforme capable de soutenir le poids de leur citrouille. Pour y arriver, ils ont utilisé divers matériaux tels que du ruban adhésif, des bâtonnets, de la pâte à modeler, de la colle et un CD.  

  The Métis Nation of Ontario (MNO) is providing an endowment of $515,000 to NOSM University, Canada’s first independent medical university.   The endowment will fund a bursary program for Métis students pursuing their MD at NOSM University and is being matched by the FDC Foundation.   “As the government representing Métis in Ontario, we are proud to do what ...

The Conseil scolaire catholique Nouvelon is pleased to congratulate the candidates in the recent school board election who were successful in their quest to serve as school trustees with the CSC Nouvelon. After all votes were cast on Monday, October 24, the following trustees, representing the eight zones of the CSC Nouvelon, have been elected to its Board for a ...