Sault Ste. Marie news

• Downtown Traffic Study

  25-10-2017 22:58
  The Citys Transportation Master Plan recommends that the City gauge public interest in converting downtown one-way streets to two-way streets, namely Bay, Queen, Albert, Wellington, Andrew, Gore, Pim and Church Streets as shown below. Converting these streets to two-way operations would potentially benefit downtown business and livability; introduce new pedestrian, cycling and driver safety features; […]
  
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• CARUSO, Luigi

  25-10-2017 22:55
  Passed away suddenly on Monday, October 23, 2017. Beloved son of Rita Furgiuele Caruso and the late Mario Caruso. Cherished brother of Tony Caruso (Silvana), Ronnie Caruso, Mary Lou Pettenuzzo (Eddy), Rosemary Sebecic (John) and the late Frank Caruso. Loved uncle of Zalona Graham (Mark), Danita Caruso, Jonathon Caruso, Ryan and Aaron Pettenuzzo. Nephew of […]
  
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• Spring Expo Confusion

  25-10-2017 22:46
  As Chamber members, we received the following email from our Sault Ste. Marie Chamber of Commerce providing some clarification over recent emails being sent to local businesses: To our SSMCOC members: The Sault Ste. Marie Chamber of Commerce is aware that a private firm from outside of our community has been e-mailing local businesses to […]
  
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• Health Quality Ontario head says North likely most affected as time goes on

  25-10-2017 22:22 via saultstar.com
  
  Current high hospital occupancy levels are not likely to lessen as Ontario’s population ages and baby-boomers require increased medical care, says the provincial adviser on health-care quality.Dr. Joshua Tepper, Health Quality Ontario CEO, said Northern Ontario could, as time goes on, feel the brunt of this more so than elsewhere in the province, b
  
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• Chamber wants strong public policy, tax structure

  25-10-2017 21:38 via saultstar.com
  
  The building of strong public policy and proper tax structures is what contributes to good business and ultimately a strong economy, the Chamber of Commerce states.
  
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• DICKINSON, Elizabeth “Bette” Joanne (Tomlinson, Nee Coyle)

  25-10-2017 21:30
  Peacefully at the Sault Area Hospital on Tuesday, October 24, 2017 after a long battle at the age of 77, with her husband at her side. Beloved wife of Ronald and the late Roy Tomlinson. Loving mother of Joanne Hendriks (Lambert) and James Tomlinson (Elizabeth). Proud grandmother of David and Steven. Dear sister of Jeanine […]
  
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• Spending some time with the guys from ohlhoundpower today in #TheSoo. Look for the #Police… instagram.com/p/Barrq1Lgvlb/

  25-10-2017 21:21 via twitter.com
  Spending some time with the guys from ohlhoundpower today in #TheSoo. Look for the #Police… instagram.com/p/Barrq1Lgvlb/
  
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• Technical aspects impressive, but witches hardly entrance: review

  25-10-2017 20:48 via saultstar.com
  
  “Double, double, toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble . . .”Three pot-stirring witches, a ghost of a dead king, a duke descending into madness, a conjured-up demon — the gang’s all here for a Shakespearean spoof that opens The Sault Theatre Workshop’s 69th season.Wyrd Sisters pays weird and wacky homage to Shakespearean tragedies such as
  
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• Defunct Sault Ste. Marie cab company owner handed jail time - CBC.ca

  25-10-2017 20:45
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  Defunct Sault Ste. Marie cab company owner handed jail time
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  The owner of a now closed cab company in Sault Ste. Marie has been sentenced to jail time for not paying his employees. According to the Ministry of Labour, Hugh Irwin, owner of a company known as Checker Cab, owed more than 30 employees a total of ...
  
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• Ontario failing to protect special wolf

  25-10-2017 20:38 via saultstar.com
  It’s called the Algonquin wolf but it ranges as far as Algoma.
  
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• CNIB Ontario-North volunteer receives Arthur Napier Magill Distinguished Service Award

  25-10-2017 20:30 via saultstar.com
  
  A CNIB Ontario-North volunteer has received the Arthur Napier Magill Distinguished Service Award.Sault Ste Marie’s Dorothy Macnaughton, an accessibility advocate and CNIB volunteer for 30 years, received the prize in recognition of her “outstanding” efforts to enhance the lives of people who are blind or partially sighted. As a person with low visi
  
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• Lansing casino fight rages on as tribe votes to challenge feds - Lansing State Journal

  25-10-2017 19:40
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  Lansing casino fight rages on as tribe votes to challenge feds
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  LANSING - The tribe working to build a casino near downtown Lansing voted on Tuesday to challenge the federal government's refusal earlier this year to put the Lansing property into trust. The Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians has for years ...
  
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• Ontario society wants to help Sault group get back to its roots, provincial president says

  25-10-2017 19:35 via saultstar.com
  
  Paring down meeting frequency is being pitched as a first step in rousing renewed organized interest here in roots.“Rather than try to reactivate fully for the first year, we will sort of take it in steps,” said Ontario Genealogical Society president Patti Mordasewicz, who joined other group brass in Sault Ste. Marie last month on both a recruiting
  
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• Wanted Wednesday: Tara Lynn Swanson

  25-10-2017 19:16
  Crime Stoppers in partnership with the Sault Ste. Marie Police Service are seeking tips regarding the whereabouts of Tara Lynn Swanson, 24, who is wanted for: CC 766(1) SURETY REVOCATION CC 145(3) FAIL TO COMPLY WITH RECOGNIZANCE CC 145(2)(B) FAIL TO ATTEND COURT X 2 CC 733.1(1) BREACH OF PROBATION X 3 If you know […]
  
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• MacDonald, Patricia Sue (Pat)

  25-10-2017 18:58
  Pat went to God after a 6 year long battle with ovarian cancer. She was born December 13, 1949 and died October 25, 2017 in her 68th year. She was a dedicated RN for 42 years. She was a graduate of St. Vincent School of Nursing in Toledo, Ohio and retired from Blind District Hospital […]
  
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• ‘We burned a girl and threw her in the lake,’ Laura Babcock’s trial hears

  25-10-2017 18:38
  TORONTO — A witness in the trial of two men accused of murder is testifying that one of the defendants confessed to him about burning a woman’s body and tossing it in a lake. Desi Liberatore has told court that Mark Smich performed a rap in 2012 in which he described “torching a body.” After […]
  
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• North deserves a voice too : Romano

  25-10-2017 18:36
  The following statement was issued by Ross Romano, Sault Ste. Marie MPP Kathleen Wynne and her Liberal government continue to ignore Northern Ontario voices in an important decision making process. A Legislative committee yesterday headed by Liberal MPP Lou Rinaldi voted down a motion that would have required the Ontario Municipal Board to guarantee Northern […]
  
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• ADSB gets to work on reconciliation

  25-10-2017 17:02 via saultstar.com
  
  Public schools in Sault Ste. Marie and area are creating statements detailing how their places of learning will acknowledge Indigenous people and their culture.
  
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• MERSEREAU, Sylvia (nee Davis)

  25-10-2017 16:00
  Passed away peacefully at Algoma Residential Community Hospice (ARCH) on October 23, 2017 at the age of 83 years. A dedicated nurse for years at the Plumber Memorial Hospital – passionate about caring for people and her family. A good wife, a fantastic mother to her children and a good friend for the people around […]
  
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• Census: Home ownership rates take historic dip as more Canadians opt to rent

  25-10-2017 15:26
  OTTAWA — Not everyone wants to own a home these days, Evan Siddall concedes — not even his own millennial-age son. For the head of the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp., that’s really saying something. But Siddall’s experience is far from uncommon, the latest census figures show: 30-year-old Canadians are less likely to own a […]
  
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• Canada’s Walk of Fame to add Donovan Bailey, Anna Paquin, Viola Desmond and more

  25-10-2017 14:11
  TORONTO — Six more names will be added to Canada’s Walk of Fame next month. Two-time Olympic gold medallist and three-time world champion Donovan Bailey is among those who will be inducted at an annual awards gala in Toronto on Nov. 15. Actress Anna Paquin, the youngest Canadian to win an Academy Award, will also receive a star, as will […]
  
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• Checker Cab Owner Jailed

  25-10-2017 14:03
  Hugger Inc., a taxi company known as Checker Cab, no longer in business, and Hugh Irwin, sole director of the company/Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. The defendant failed to pay wages after being ordered to do so by a Ministry of Labour employment standards officer. There were 63 orders to pay, owed to more than 30 […]
  
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• Sault Theatre Workshop to Produce Wyrd Sisters

  25-10-2017 06:25
  Sault Theatre Workshop (STW) is proudly showing the brilliant parody of the Scottish Play, Wyrd Sisters written by Stephen Briggs (adapted from the best-selling novelist Terry Pratchett). In this production, you’ll get a bit of everything – a wicked duke and duchess, the ghost of a murdered king, dim soldiers, strolling players, and a land in […]
  
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• Large gathering for Tragically Hip singalong tribute to Gord Downie in Toronto

  25-10-2017 05:57
  TORONTO — Daveed Goldman and Nobu Adilman wanted to pay tribute to late Tragically Hip singer Gord Downie after learning of his death. And so the directors of Choir! Choir! Choir!, a Toronto-based singalong collective, invited fans to Nathan Phillips Square on Tuesday night to honour Downie the best way they could — through his […]
  
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• Wawa Drug Bust, 3 Arrested

  25-10-2017 05:39
  (Wawa, ON) – On October 23, 2017 at approximately 5:20 pm members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU) and members from the Superior East (Wawa) OPP detachment executed a warrant on a residence in the town of Wawa. As a result of police investigation a quantity of drugs were located […]
  
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• WestJet flight makes unscheduled landing due to unruly, drunk passenger

  25-10-2017 05:31
  FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. — RCMP in the northern Alberta detachment of Wood Buffalo say a WestJet flight made an unscheduled landing in Fort McMurray earlier this week due to an unruly drunk. Cpl. Teri-Ann Deobald says in a news release that flight 3177 on Monday was supposed to fly from Calgary to Yellowknife. But she […]
  
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• Dalhousie U accused of ‘white supremacy’ amid escalating tensions over racism

  25-10-2017 05:13
  HALIFAX — Amid rising tension at Dalhousie University, a former student interrupted a panel discussion about campus diversity Tuesday to accuse the school of “white supremacy.” “The myth that you share is that Dalhousie is doing a good job about equity and inclusion,” said Ifo Ikede, a former computer engineering and computer science student at […]
  
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• Calgary Stampede buys Clem Gardner’s cowboy hat off eBay for archives

  25-10-2017 05:00
  CALGARY — A legendary cowboy’s hat from the 1920s has made its way back to Alberta and the archives of the Calgary Stampede. Cassandra Cummings, the Stampede’s historical specialist, says she bought Clem Gardner’s hat on eBay for just over $2,100 from a seller in Pennsylvania. Gardner participated in the first Calgary Stampede in 1912, […]
  
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• Calgary Stampede buys Clem Gardner’s cowboy hat off eBay

  25-10-2017 05:00
  CALGARY — A legendary cowboy’s hat from the 1920s has made its way back to Alberta and the archives of the Calgary Stampede. Cassandra Cummings, the Stampede’s historical specialist, says she bought Clem Gardner’s hat on eBay for just over $2,100 from a seller in Pennsylvania. Gardner participated in the first Calgary Stampede in 1912, […]
  
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• Investigation busts illegal polar bear exports

  25-10-2017 04:41
  Canada’s wildlife police hope the kind of bust that halted a recent illegal shipment of polar bear rugs to China will soon be a vanishing breed. “We will create more control, more management and more security for every player in the market, so that the polar bear product in the beginning is the same one […]
  
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• Tuesday October 24

  25-10-2017 04:06
  GOVERNMENT BOOSTING CHILD-POVERTY SPENDING: The Trudeau government is dedicating about a third of the windfall it’s expecting from Canada’s surprisingly strong economy towards investments, tax relief and new spending on social programs to support children and the working poor. Finance Minister Bill Morneau released a fall economic statement Tuesday that promises $14.9 billion in fresh […]
  
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• Another birthday, another donation

  25-10-2017 03:32
  It is another birthday for Isabel McCauley and another donation to the soup kitchen. Instead of presents this year, the fourth year in a row, she asked for her friends to donate to the soup kitchen. She just wanted to “help other people that don’t have any food,” she says. Twenty of her friends donated […]
  
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• 42 Year Old Male Arrested for Home Invasion, Firearms and Drugs

  25-10-2017 02:39
  On October 23rd, 2017 officers with the Patrol Services Division of the Sault Ste. Marie Police Service arrested 42 year old Ronald Baron of Grace Street regarding a home invasion. It is alleged that on September 22nd, 2017 the accused and 2 other individuals entered a residence in the 400 block of Third Avenue by […]
  
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• Assistance to Locate Missing Person

  25-10-2017 00:25
  Officers with the Investigation Services Division of the Sault Ste. Marie Police Service are seeking the public’s assistance to locate missing person 27 year old Shane Stephens. Mr. Stephens was last seen in mid-September 2017 in the area of Letcher Street. He is described as a Caucasian male, approximately 5’8” tall weighing 220 pounds. He […]
  
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