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Mar 2, 2018 @ 12:26 President Trump publicly advised on Thursday that he intends to levy a 25 per cent tariff on all steel entering the United States. Canada and the United States have integrated economic relationships and a balanced trade relationship in steel. In 2016, over 10 million tonnes of steel with a market value of $8.8 billion (USD) ...

Mar 2, 2018 @ 11:58 Rector Machine Works Ltd is pleased to announce that they have received the CWB certification for aluminum fabrication (W47.2). “This is a big step for us, since we’re the only shop in the Algoma Area  that is certified,” said Walter Barbon, Welding/Fabricating Supervisor. “Aluminum work can now come to us and is completed onsite.” “The ...

Mar 2, 2018 @ 10:43 On March 2, 2018, at approximately 2:00 a.m., members of the East Algoma Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) arrested the male responsible for causing a disturbance and damaging property at a Dunn Road apartment in Elliot Lake, Ontario.   On March 1, 2018, at approximately 7:55 a.m. the OPP received numerous complaints of a male knocking ...

Feb 28, 2018 @ 16:30 For the third straight year, the federal Liberals have produced nothing but unsubstantiated promises and $5 million more for studies while VIA Rail Canada continues to disintegrate.   “Unfortunately, the VIA tidbits in Budget 2018 are exactly what we’ve come to expect from this government,” says Robert Wightman, president of the citizens’ advocacy group, All ...

Feb 28, 2018 @ 14:39 NDP Health critic France Gélinas said that Ontario families can’t afford to wait for another federal study before they get the medicine that they need and called on the Wynne government to put Ontario first and support the NDP plan for true, universal pharmacare now.   “It’s time for national, universal pharmacare — but yesterday, ...

Feb 28, 2018 @ 14:24 NDP Health critic MPP France Gélinas told the Liberal government Wednesday that Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children treated more patients in January 2018 than at any other time in its history.   On Tuesday, the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit was operating at 114 percent occupancy.   “The Hospital for Sick Children right here in ...

Feb 28, 2018 @ 11:48 Stuart Cline, a resident of London, Ontario, is stuck in a Mexican hospital in critical condition as he waits for a hospital bed to open up at home.   Stuart is suffering from a brain bleed, complicated by a heart condition that requires blood thinners and a pacemaker. His wife and daughter-in-law are with him, and ...

Ontario Northland is featured alongside Canadian Pacific (CP) Railway in Discovery’s new original Canadian series “Rocky Mountain Railroad”. The all-new, eight-part series premieres Monday, March 5th at 10pm ET on Discovery and will tell the stories of railroad crews battling tough winter weather and rough terrain to keep Canada’s critical freight and passenger trains moving. “We’re excited for the series ...

Feb 27, 2018 @ 08:35 The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Almaguin Highlands Detachment continues to investigate a triple homicide / suicide incident that occurred on Starratt Road in Ryerson Township, Ontario. The victims formed three generations of the same family and all resided at the location where they were murdered. They have been identified as: Raija TURANEN, 88 years old; Ulla ...

Feb 25, 2018 @ 11:14 On February 23, 2018 at approximately 7:30 p.m., members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Almaguin Highlands Detachment responded to a 911 call for assistance on Starratt Road in Ryerson Township, Ontario. Police located four adults at the scene; two male and two female. All were deceased with obvious signs of trauma. The incident is ...

Feb 24, 2018 @ 18:26 In light of an increase in the number of patients presenting to the Emergency Department with Influenza-like illness, Sault Area Hospital (SAH) has now imposed visitor restrictions for the Emergency Department (ED). Effective immediately, the Emergency Department will be closed to visitors until further notice.  Exceptions may be permitted on compassionate grounds and at the ...

Feb 24, 2018 @ 18:23 On February 23, 2018 at approximately 7:30 p.m., members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Almaguin Highlands Detachment responded to a 911 call for assistance on Starratt Road in Ryerson Township, Ontario. Police located four adults at the scene; two male and two female. All were deceased with obvious signs of trauma. The identity of ...

Feb 23, 2018 @ 17:10 On February 14, 2018, members from the East Algoma Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) located human remains in a wooded area within the City of Elliot Lake, Ontario.   A post mortem examination is ongoing at this time and is being conducted at the Office of the Chief Coroner-Ontario Forensic Pathology Service (OCC-OFPS) ...

Feb 23, 2018 @ 17:08 Members of the Kenora Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) along with the assistance of Technical Traffic Collison Investigators (TTCI), Forensic Identification Units (FISU) and the OPP Highway Safety Division (HSD) are investigating a fatal motor vehicle collision on Highway 17. On Friday, February 23, 2018 at approximately 8:30 a.m, the Kenora OPP was ...

  In Question Period on Thursday, Algoma Manitoulin NDP MPP Michael Mantha said that Kathleen Wynne has ignored the concerns of northern Ontario families being priced out of their homes by property assessment increases that are hundreds of times above the provincial average.   Mantha was joined by 84-year-old Schreiber resident Annie Scott who is struggling just to hold on ...