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Les élèves de la 12e année de l’école secondaire catholique Trillium (Chapleau) étaient à l’honneur le 22 juin lors d’une une célébration des finissantes et finissants en format virtuel. L’école a bonifié cette activité de reconnaissance avec la remise de certificats de mérites, de toges et mortiers, et autres éléments de valorisation. La cérémonie de remise des diplômes de l’ESC ...

Official Opposition NDP Leader Andrea Horwath is calling for provincial funding and an urgent action plan to help people quickly get the procedures and surgeries they need, hundreds of thousands of which have been delayed by COVID-19. “Thousands of people are coping with pain and worry while they wait for procedures like cancer scans, hip replacements and even heart surgeries,” ...

  In 1960, while working for Shell Oil in Jasper Park, Alta., I bought a weekend edition of the Globe and Mail. Inside was a 30-page insert advertising secondary school teaching positions at every school board in Ontario. The postwar baby boomers were headed to high school. I had often considered teaching and, to my astonishment, discovered that having a ...

Weather Showers ending this morning then cloudy with 60 percent chance of showers. Risk of a thunderstorm this morning and early this afternoon. Fog patches dissipating this morning. Temperature falling to 14 this morning then rising. UV index 5 or moderate. Tonight – Cloudy with 60 percent chance of showers or drizzle this evening then partly cloudy. Fog patches developing ...

Monday evening, Wawa residents were treated to a split-screen Zoom presentation by Joleine Kasper and Maggie Muck who together presented and made the Three Sisters Wild Rice Salad. These two dietetic interns are working with Justine Glover, Registered Dietitian at the Wawa Family Health Team. In a half-hour presentation, attendees were treated to the indigenous history of the three main ...

After eight weeks and seventeen draws, the LOTTO MAX jackpot that was part of a Canadian lottery record top prize pool has finally been won!   There were two winning tickets – one sold in Toronto and the other sold in British Columbia – that will split last night’s (June 22, 2021) $70 million jackpot! Each ticket is worth an ...

Is your community welcoming? Northern Policy Institute has launched the first of six annual surveys to track changes in attitudes towards newcomers, visible minorities, and Indigenous Peoples in all regions of Northern Ontario.   The 2021 survey focuses on welcoming attitudes towards newcomers. In 2022 the survey will focus on reconciliation and welcoming attitudes towards Indigenous Peoples. The two surveys ...

Morning Worship on Sunday 27 June, 2021 will be held in the Church at 11:00 a.m. PLEASE OBSERVE Safety Protocols: distancing, sanitizing, and wear a mask. If you cannot meet for Worship you might like to read the Scriptures for June 27th, 2021 Fifth Sunday after Pentecost 2 Samuel 1:1,17-27     David’s lament for Saul & Jonathan. Psalm 130                      Out of ...

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, we will be publishing the information from The Little Black Book of Scams 2nd Edition, one scam at a time. Last ...

Le Bureau du Canada à publier « The Little Black Book of Scams » 2nd edition et est maintenant disponible en ligne à https://www.competitionbureau.gc.ca/eic/site/cb-bc.nsf/eng/04333.htm. L’information est très importante et devrait attirer l’intérêt de tous le monde. Dans les prochains mois ils y auras autres publications de escroqueries (une par semaine).  L’information sera retrouver dans le livre « The Little Black ...

Weather Mainly cloudy. 30 percent chance of showers this morning. Clearing this afternoon. Wind becoming southwest 30 km/h gusting to 60 this morning. High 22. UV index 7 or high. Tonight – Clear early this evening then partly cloudy with 30 percent chance of showers this evening and after midnight. A few showers beginning after midnight. Risk of a thunderstorm ...

HARTE GOLD CORP. announced today its first COVID-19 workplace transmission at the Sugar Zone Mine (White River).  The Company is currently managing three cases of COVID-19 among employees at the Sugar Zone mine, two of which are asymptomatic.  Through workplace protocols, and in partnership with Algoma Public Health, contact tracing was completed to determine the potential for additional exposures. The ...

Algoma Public Health (APH) is reporting 1 new case of COVID-19, from north Algoma. North Algoma includes the communities of Dubreuilville, Michipicoten First Nation, Missinabie Cree First Nation, Wawa, and White River. Case #339 is of close contact, was tested on June 18th, and is self-isolating. Through contact tracing, APH notifies all close contacts directly. If you are not contacted ...

Weather Sunny early this morning then a mix of sun and cloud with 30 percent chance of showers this afternoon. Fog patches dissipating this morning. High 15. UV index 7 or high. Tonight – Partly cloudy with 30 percent chance of showers this evening then clear. Fog patches developing overnight. Low plus 3 with risk of frost. Status of cases ...

Jun 22, 2021 at 07:12 – Frost Advisories ended at 6:41 this morning. Jun 21, 2021 at 18:28 – Frost advisory issued for: Nakina – Aroland – Pagwa Manitouwadge – Hornepayne Wawa – White River – Pukaskwa (ended 6:41) Agawa – Lake Superior Park Searchmont – Montreal River Harbour – Batchawana Bay Elliot Lake – Ranger Lake Kapuskasing – Hearst ...