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• Don’t miss Vague de Cirque at the Machine Shop this weekend!

  14-09-2017 23:44
  Vague de Cirque may perform contemporary acts, but most of the elements are inspired by the small traditional European circuses, reflected in the size of the traveling tent (200 seats), the circular stage, and caravan lifestyle, paying tribute to circus arts and making the audience literally part of the action. I had the opportunity to sit […]
  
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• Blue-green algae bloom confirmed in Upper Island Lake

  14-09-2017 23:11 via saultstar.com
  
  Laboratory results from a water sample submitted to the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change confirmed the presence of a blue-green bloom in Upper Island Lake, located in Aweres Township, north of Sault Ste. Marie.Blue-green algae are naturally present in ponds, lakes and streams, but can quickly increase in numbers to form a scum called
  
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• Algoma fall colours should peak in late September, early October

  14-09-2017 22:57 via saultstar.com
  
  No need to see red, fans of fall foliage.Thanks to a “cooler spell” in late August into early September, Algoma District should boast abundant fall colours, coming a bit earlier than last year.“It’s going to pan out pretty nicely,” says Weather Network meteorologist Erin Wenckstern.A “nice stretch” of weather is coming up over the next couple of we
  
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• LABRANCHE, Donald Isaac

  14-09-2017 22:28
  Peacefully at the FJ Davey Home on Tuesday, September 12, 2017 at the age of 84. Predeceased by his parents Donald Labranche and Rita (nee Lanthier). Dear brother of Howard (Nanda) and Florence (Bernard Smith). Fondly remembered by many nieces, nephews and cousins. Arrangements entrusted to the Arthur Funeral Home – Barton & Kiteley Chapel […]
  
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• The Northern Ontario Multimodal Transportation (NOMTS) Study Needs Your Feedback!

  14-09-2017 20:59
  Mask-wa Oo-ta-ban, the Bear Train, and the Coalition of Algoma Passenger Trains, encourage all Algoma business owners and residents to participate in the Northern Ontario Multimodal Transportation (NOMTS) Study survey. Please take a few moments of your time and click on the following link: https://nomts.ca/how-can-i-get-involved/ The deadline is tomorrow, September 15th The Ministry of Transportation […]
  
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• Confirmed Blue Green Algae Bloom in Upper Island Lake

  14-09-2017 20:22
  Laboratory results from a water sample submitted to the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change confirmed the presence of a blue-green bloom in Upper Island Lake, located in Aweres Township, north of Sault Ste. Marie. Blue-green algae are naturally present in ponds, lakes and streams but can quickly increase in numbers to form a […]
  
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• MPP's in favor of boosting North's representation

  14-09-2017 20:06 via saultstar.com
  
  The Ontario government is proposing that two more ridings be created in the North to improve representation and ensure Northerners have a stronger voice.
  
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• The Maxwells hone their sound

  14-09-2017 19:56 via saultstar.com
  
  Just like the robot on their new album cover blasting death rays on a major metropolitan centre, rockers The Maxwells have laser-like intensity with the sound and lyrics featured on their new tracks.
  
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• Searchmont Resort is looking great for the upcoming winter and Season Passes are on sale!

  14-09-2017 19:39
  Staff at Searchmont Resort has been working hard all summer, and the resort is looking in great shape for the upcoming 2017-2018 season.  Completed projects include: Painting of the lift towers and terminals Completed audit and engineering work on all lifts Brushing of the entire mountain New Uniforms for staff Larger Rental Fleet New and […]
  
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• Police taking aim at pocket dials and unintentional 9-1-1 calls

  14-09-2017 19:10
  Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) has received more than 142,130 9-1-1 calls from January 1st to June 30th, 2017 and 299,100 in 2016. In 2016 the OPP was able to confirm over 2000 pocket dials however over 30,000 remained as unknown wireless calls. Ontario’s unintentional calls have decreased over the last few years, but more work […]
  
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• U.S. may not defend Canada from missile

  14-09-2017 19:01
  OTTAWA – The deputy commander of Norad says under current U.S. policy, the American military would not defend Canada in the event of a ballistic missile attack. Lt.-Gen. Pierre St-Amand’s comments come as the House of Commons’ defence committee holds hearings into whether Canada is ready for an attack by North Korea. They also appear […]
  
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• Quebec most trusting of autonomous vehicles

  14-09-2017 18:55
  About half of Canadian consumers surveyed say they trust autonomous vehicles to get them to their destination but only 30 per cent would replace their current vehicle with a self-driving car. Not surprisingly, acceptance of self-driving technology was greatest with younger respondents and those with higher incomes and education levels, says the DesRosiers Automotive Consultants […]
  
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• Over 2,800 deaths last year linked to opioids: feds

  14-09-2017 18:52
  TORONTO – The federal government says at least 2,816 deaths in 2016 were linked to the opioid crisis and that number “will almost certainly” surpass 3,000 in 2017. Nearly three-quarters of the Canadians who died of opioid-related causes last year were male, while 84 per cent of the deaths involved another intoxicating substance such as […]
  
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• Wynne, Brown in standoff over comments

  14-09-2017 18:49
  TORONTO – Ontario’s premier and Opposition leader are sticking to their guns in a dispute that could lead to legal action. Premier Kathleen Wynne’s lawyers wrote a letter to Patrick Brown on Wednesday asking that he withdraw comments he made about her or face a defamation lawsuit. In a statement released early this morning, the […]
  
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• Storms add pressure for softwood deal: Carr

  14-09-2017 18:33
  OTTAWA – Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr says there is no question that demand for wood products to help rebuild after two devastating hurricanes in the United States will put pressure on the White House to sort out the latest softwood dispute with Canada. Carr was commenting following a speech at a meeting of the […]
  
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• Undersea wreck to unlock Franklin’s secrets

  14-09-2017 18:25
  GJOA HAVEN, Nunavut – A tiny dot of fuschia bobs livid against the deep blue Arctic sea at a GPS point known only to selected researchers and the few local hunters who guard it. Anchored somewhere in Wilmot and Crampton Bay off Queen Maud Gulf, the buoy could not be more remote. Even the Inuit […]
  
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• Attacked in bed, safe a few feet away: Cuba mystery deepens

  14-09-2017 18:12
  WASHINGTON – The blaring, grinding noise jolted the American diplomat from his bed in a Havana hotel. He moved just a few feet, and there was silence. He climbed back into bed. Inexplicably, the agonizing sound hit him again. It was as if he’d walked through some invisible wall cutting straight through his room. Soon […]
  
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• Fireman Dan says... Escape plans are crucial for making every second count! Make sure you have a plan with 2 ways o… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  14-09-2017 18:06 via twitter.com
  Fireman Dan says... Escape plans are crucial for making every second count! Make sure you have a plan with 2 ways o… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Vote for your favourite business pitch video

  14-09-2017 17:47
  Five finalists have been selected for a Business Pitch Competition being delivered by the Sault Ste. Marie Economic Development Corporation (SSMEDC). The local companies are: Black Fox Fishing, Meatless Meals With Megan, Ontario Wild, Scott Coffee Co., and The Queen’s Tarts. Each firm now has a short pitch video posted to social media. View them […]
  
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• Burzese joins trustees

  14-09-2017 17:41 via saultstar.com
  
  Mia Burzese is a new Huron-Superior Catholic District School Board student trustee.
  
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• Get Blasted with Colour at the Fifth Annual Algoma U Colour Dash

  14-09-2017 17:32
  Get blasted with colour on Saturday, September 30th at 9:30am! As part of Algoma University’s annual Homecoming celebrations, the University will be hosting the fifth Annual Algoma U Colour Dash in support of the Algoma Residential Community Hospice (ARCH) and Algoma Thunderbirds Varsity Student-Athletic Awards. Students, alumni, and the general public can get blasted with […]
  
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• Sanderson Field to host open house, movie night - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  14-09-2017 17:10 via sooeveningnews.com
  Sanderson Field to host open house, movie night
  Sault Ste. Marie Evening News
  The Soo Pilots Association is hosting an airport open house and movie night for families and kids of all ages on Friday, Sept. 29. Soo Air has secured the rights to animated family movie “Wings.” “Where else can you watch an airplane movie in a hangar ...
  
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• Boards team up for Espanola school

  14-09-2017 17:08 via saultstar.com
  
  Construction of a new school in Espanola shared by two school boards will take about two years to build and cost nearly $24 million.
  
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• Refusal to Provide Breath Sample

  14-09-2017 16:51
  On September 13th, 2017 officers with the Patrol Services Division of the Sault Ste. Marie Police Service arrested 33 year old Ashley Gapp of Pine Street for an impaired driving related offence. It is alleged that just before 9:30 p.m. the accused was operating a motor vehicle on Wallace Terrace in Sault Ste. Marie.  At […]
  
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• Exporting information session on Southeast Asia

  14-09-2017 16:49
  The Ontario Ministry of International Trade, in collaboration with the Sault Ste. Marie Economic Development Corporation, invites you to attend an exporting information session on Southeast Asia. Ontario’s Singapore-based market expert is visiting Ontario and will present on doing business in Southeast Asia with a focus on aerospace, cleantech and ICT sectors. Southeast Asia is […]
  
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• Premier Meets with U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross

  14-09-2017 16:35
  Premier Kathleen Wynne released the following statement after her meeting with U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross in Washington, D.C. this morning: “It has never been more important for Ontario to engage in productive dialogue with our neighbours in the U.S. As we approach the third round of NAFTA negotiations, I am pleased to be […]
  
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• Refusal to Provide Breath Sample #Sault #Police #SaultNews #TheSoo - news.ssmps.ca/EN/News/index.…

  14-09-2017 16:03 via twitter.com
  Refusal to Provide Breath Sample #Sault #Police #SaultNews #TheSoo - news.ssmps.ca/EN/News/index.…
  
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• Tragically Hip filmmakers say project came together fast

  14-09-2017 15:25
  TORONTO – Making the Tragically Hip tour documentary “Long Time Running” was a shotgun project of sorts for its filmmakers. “It started on a dime,” explained co-director Nicholas de Pencier on Wednesday during the film’s red carpet premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. “Five days before the first show,” added Jennifer Baichwal, the film’s […]
  
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• Brown says he’ll ignore legal threats from Wynne

  14-09-2017 15:21
  TORONTO – The leader of Ontario’s Opposition said Thursday he is ignoring Premier Kathleen Wynne’s request that he retract comments he made about her, dismissing a warning that he could face legal action as “baseless.” Wynne’s lawyers wrote a letter to Patrick Brown on Wednesday asking that he withdraw and apologize for statements he made […]
  
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• Seven stories in the news for today, September 14th

  14-09-2017 15:14
  JUSTICE MINISTERS TO DISCUSS FEDERAL POT PLAN: Marijuana legalization will be at the top of the agenda when Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould meets with her provincial and territorial counterparts today in Vancouver. B.C. Solicitor General Mike Farnworth says he hopes the two-day meeting offers more clarity around how the federal government intends to make good […]
  
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• Japan disaster didn’t affect fish or human health

  14-09-2017 15:05
  VANCOUVER – Radioactive contamination following a nuclear power-plant disaster in Japan never reached unsafe levels in the north Pacific Ocean for either marine life or human health, says a British Columbia scientist. Chemical oceanographer Jay Cullen of the University of Victoria has monitored levels of contamination from radioactive isotopes, used in cancer therapies and medical […]
  
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• Half of Canadian wildlife species declining: report

  14-09-2017 14:42
  An extensive survey of 903 species of Canadian birds, fish, mammals, reptiles and amphibians over more than four decades has found that half of them are in serious population decline. Declining species lost a total of 83 per cent of their numbers between 1970 and 2014, says the report released Thursday by the World Wildlife […]
  
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• Ontario invests in Sault Ste. Marie pipe mill - Daily Commercial News

  14-09-2017 06:37 via dailycommercialnews.com
  Ontario invests in Sault Ste. Marie pipe mill
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  SAULT STE. MARIE, ONT. — The Tenaris Algoma Tubes seamless pipe mill in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. will be able to modernize equipment and plant facilities thanks to an investment from the Ontario government. Ontario invests in Sault Ste. Marie pipe mill.
  
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• Daily Commercial News - Ontario invests in Sault Ste. Marie pipe mill - Daily Commercial News

  14-09-2017 06:37 via dailycommercialnews.com
  Daily Commercial News - Ontario invests in Sault Ste. Marie pipe mill
  Daily Commercial News
  sault ste. marie, ont. — the tenaris algoma tubes seamless pipe mill in sault ste. marie, ont. will be able to modernize equipment and plant facilities thanks to an ...and more »
  
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• Panthers, Eagles, Bulldogs notch EUPC volleyball wins - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  14-09-2017 05:55 via sooeveningnews.com
  Panthers, Eagles, Bulldogs notch EUPC volleyball wins
  Sault Ste. Marie Evening News
  PICKFORD — The Pickford Panthers defended home court with a 3-0 win over DeTour in Eastern UP Conference volleyball Tuesday night. The Panthers downed the Raiders 25-22, 25-22, 29-27. Tori Thurmes led the Panthers with 14 assists, six aces, four ...
  
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• Kalchik leads Sault girls at Newberry - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  14-09-2017 05:55 via sooeveningnews.com
  Kalchik leads Sault girls at Newberry
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  NEWBERRY — Sault High senior Mackenzie Kalchik picked up where she left off last season, winning the first Straits Area Conference cross country jamboree by over a minute Tuesday. Kalchik, last year's top conference individual finisher, ran a time of ...and more »
  
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• Florida residents ‘happy’ to see Mark Golden and his Wilderness Environmental Services crew assisting efforts to restore power, clean up Irma’s aftermath

  14-09-2017 01:16 via saultstar.com
  
  Mark Golden is no stranger to seeing storm aftermath up close and personal.The veteran Wilderness Environmental Services employee has been a first-responder, so to speak, at no shortage of places that have witnessed Mother Nature’s wrath; most recently, a major wind storm that whipped St. Joseph Island in the summer required his assistance and, in
  
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• Highlights from the news file for Wednesday, September 13th

  14-09-2017 01:07
  COURT UPHOLDS DEL MASTRO CONVICTIONS: A former federal politician has lost his bid to have his convictions for electoral offences overturned. The Ontario Court of Appeal said Wednesday it is upholding Dean Del Mastro’s 2014 convictions on three violations of the Canada Elections Act. Del Mastro was convicted of overspending, failing to report a personal […]
  
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• Crown wants 4 years for online harassment case

  14-09-2017 00:59
  VANCOUVER – A man who launched a revenge website to emotionally ruin his ex-wife shows no insight or remorse for his crime and must be sentenced to four years in prison, a Crown prosecutor has argued. Patrick Fox, 43, was found guilty by a jury in June of criminally harassing his former spouse Desiree Capuano […]
  
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• Northern Ireland jumps into Bombardier fight

  14-09-2017 00:52
  MONTREAL – The United Kingdom is allying itself with Canada in the fight to persuade U.S. aircraft manufacturer Boeing to abandon its complaint against Bombardier regarding the CSeries. Days after a phone call on the issue between British Prime Minister Theresa May and U.S. President Donald Trump, politicians in Northern Ireland have taken up the […]
  
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• Tech CEOs voice discontent over tax changes

  14-09-2017 00:48
  SEATTLE – The head of one of Canada’s few tech “unicorns” and other industry players are joining the chorus of opposition to Ottawa’s proposed small business tax changes, saying the plan could stifle investment and innovation in a country trying to poise itself as an entrepreneurial hotbed. “I would encourage the government to look very […]
  
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• Apologize or face lawsuit, Wynne tells Brown

  14-09-2017 00:44
  TORONTO – Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne has asked the leader of the Opposition to retract comments he made about her or face legal action. The premier’s lawyers wrote a letter to Patrick Brown on Wednesday, saying the Progressive Conservative leader had told reporters that Wynne was standing trial in a Liberal bribery case. The letter […]
  
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• U.S. invites Canada to climate change meeting

  14-09-2017 00:39
  OTTAWA – Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says there is still time to convince the United States not to withdraw from the Paris climate change accord and an unexpected meeting scheduled for New York next week might be the first step in that direction. McKenna is one of about a dozen environment and climate ministers from […]
  
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• Irma expected to boost insurance costs

  14-09-2017 00:32
  Canadian snowbirds who were lucky enough to escape property damage from hurricane Irma will still face higher costs as insurance providers jack up premiums and condo associations levy special assessments, say Florida insurance experts. “We’re probably looking at across-the-board 15 to 20 per cent increase in property insurance costs over the next year,” says Brad […]
  
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• Equifax hack fallout limited for Canadians

  14-09-2017 00:29
  Equifax Canada’s customer service agents are telling callers that only Canadians who have had dealings in the United States are likely to be affected by the massive hack announced last week. The credit monitoring company’s call centre staff say that Canadians who have Equifax accounts in the U.S. could be at risk of having their […]
  
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• Ontario’s 3rd cap-an-trade auction sells out

  14-09-2017 00:25
  TORONTO – Ontario’s third cap-and-trade auction has sold out of all allowances. The September auction follows two similarly successful efforts in March and June, all of which are aimed at lowering greenhouse gas emissions in the province. The government puts caps on the amount of pollution companies in certain industries can emit, and if they […]
  
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• The Gerry and Spanky ShoW !

  14-09-2017 00:08
  They bark, they chat, they chat and bark and chat , chat chat chat,  bark bark bark…...The Gerry and Spanky  Shooow ! ( re: Simpsons ).  I have decided to take my skates off of the ice this week and focus a bit on what else makes following the Hounds so enjoyable. This week I introduce to you Gerry Liscumb Jr. and […]
  
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