The International Joint Commission (IJC) is very pleased to announce that Ms. Heather Stirratt has accepted the position of Director of the Commission’s Great Lakes Regional Office (GLRO) and will lead the binational regional office for the next four years.  Heather has over 27 years of professional experience in coastal and fisheries management.  Having served for over 14 years as the Great ...

La Commission mixte internationale (CMI) a le grand plaisir d’annoncer que Mme Heather Stirratt a accepté le poste de directrice du Bureau régional des Grands Lacs (BRGL) de la CMI, qu’elle dirigera donc pendant les quatre prochaines années. Mme Stirratt possède plus de 27 années d’expérience dans le domaine de la gestion des rives et des ressources halieutiques. En tant ...

Algoma Steel Group Inc. (“Algoma” or “the Company”), a leading Canadian producer of hot and cold rolled steel sheet and plate products, announced results for its fiscal fourth quarter and full year ended March 31, 2022. Unless otherwise specified, all amounts are in Canadian dollars. Business Highlights and Fiscal 2022 to Fiscal 2021 Fourth Quarter Comparisons Consolidated revenue of $941.8 ...

At the end of May, École Saint-Joseph (Wawa) welcomed Bishop Thomas Dowd, Bishop of the Diocese of Sault Ste. Marie, as well as Father Michael of Wawa’s St. Monica Parish. The two guests toured the school and had the chance to visit some classes. In addition, the entire school was able to gather in the St. Monica Parish to celebrate ...

À la fin mai, l’école Saint-Joseph (Wawa) a accueilli Mgr Thomas Dowd, évêque du Diocèse de Sault-Ste-Marie ainsi que Père Michael de la paroisse Ste-Monica. Ces deux invités ont fait une tournée de l’école et ont même eu la chance de rendre visite à certaines classes. De plus, l’école entière a pu se rassembler à la Paroisse Ste-Monica pour célébrer ...

NORDIK Institute is launching its new Aki Kikinomakaywin (Learning on the land) program, which offers hands-on, Indigenous science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) training for Indigenous youth.   The program will run for one week in July at Lakehead University and Confederation College in Thunder Bay.   Aki Kikinomakaywin is a women- and Indigenous-led program that teaches Indigenous youth ...

  From June 7 to 9, Ontario Mine Rescue hosted the provincial competition at Vale’s Creighton Mine in Sudbury and announced the winners at a banquet on the final evening.   “The invitation-only event marks the final month of the annual mine rescue volunteer training cycle,” says Ted Hanley, Vice President, Mine Rescue. “And the provincial competition brings together all ...

Effective June 13, 2022, there are stationary Automated Licence Plate Readers (ALPR) located at the east and north entrance/exits of Sault Ste. Marie. Both locations, Trunk Road, and Great Northern Road, will have two ALPR cameras to be able to scan licence plates of interest travelling in and out of Sault Ste. Marie.     Each camera provides an infrared ...

Thunder Bay is hosting the Tbaytel 2022 Canadian National Martial Arts Championships & Festival for the first time ever. The excitement around the city is starting to grow, and because the event will attract national attention, it aims to help grow the martial arts locally. Preparations with the CJ Sanders Fieldhouse at Lakehead University for the championships began months ago. ...

Manitou Gold Inc. is pleased to provide details on several newly identified gold targets, as well as the discovery of a new nickel-bearing ultramafic complex on its Goudreau project in northern Ontario with the same host mineralization as Canada Nickel’s Crawford deposit. Recently completed diamond drilling continues to emphasize the gold discovery potential along the Baltimore deformation zone (the “BDZ”), ...

The Sault Ste. Marie Police Service is requesting assistance to locate 17-year-old Kaitana Biron. She was last seen around 4:00 p.m. on June 8th, 2022 in the 100 block of Queensgate Blvd. She is described as 5’3″ tall with a thin build, brown hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a black tank top, black leggings, and white ...

Four youth (under 25) can attend the upcoming Magnetic North conference in Sault Ste Marie free of charge. Algoma University has agreed to be the youth sponsor for this year’s event. Those four spots cover not just conference registration, but reasonable travel and accommodation costs as well.   Meanwhile, if you can’t physically get to the conference, any registered student ...

Friday, June 10, 2022 On the morning of Thursday, June 9, the city’s Emergency Management Committee was made aware of an oil spill downstream of Algoma Steel Inc. on the St. Marys River. Since that time, the city has been closely monitoring the impact of the spill along with control and remediation efforts by the Ministry of Environment and Climate ...

FOR RESIDENTS WHO OBTAIN THEIR DRINKING WATER DIRECTLY FROM THE ST. MARYS RIVER   NOTE: This advisory does not apply to the Sault Ste. Marie municipal drinking water system. There is no concern relating to this system at this time.   Algoma Public Health is advising all users of the St. Marys River that an oil spill has been reported and confirmed to ...

World Water Day artworks are now on display at the Centennial Branch Library, located at 50 East Street! After several COVID related delays, patrons of the library and supporters of the arts are able to view submissions celebrating World Water Day until early July!   This year on March 22, 2022 in celebration of World Water Day, local Water Wise ...