Sault Ste. Marie news

• FREMLIN, Roderick (Rod) James

  07-09-2018 23:23
  Peacefully at the Sault Area Hospital with family at his side on Thursday September 6, 2018 at the age of 66.  Much loved husband of Cynthia for 38 years. Loving and devoted father of Danielle Hall (Steve), David (Kahli) and Daniel (Jocelyn). Proud grandfather of Samantha and Sydney Cowan. Predeceased by his parents David John […]
  
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• Julia Roberts praises Canadian ‘Homecoming’ co-star Stephan James

  07-09-2018 22:52
  TORONTO — When Oscar winner Julia Roberts signed up to star alongside Toronto native Stephan James in the upcoming Amazon series “Homecoming,” she wanted to make sure their work ethics aligned. “It was one of those things where — not to feel like the old mother hen — but I remember saying just the last day of rehearsal […]
  
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• UofT student who died was found under floating dock at camp: classmate

  07-09-2018 22:36
  An 18-year old University of Toronto student who died during a trip to the school’s engineering camp this week was found under a floating dock not long after he and his classmates jumped into a lake on a hot afternoon, said a young man who pulled his colleague from the water. Second-year civil engineering student Anand Baiju, who according […]
  
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• Military members get help with civilian transition

  07-09-2018 22:24 via saultstar.com
  Men and women in uniform preparing to leave the Canadian military can get help making the major transition to post-service life.North Bay-based Veteran Family Program is a partnership between Veterans Affairs Canada and Military Family Services, a division of Canadian Forces Morale and Welfare Services. The program, connecting veterans and their family members with available support and services, is funded by Veteran Affairs.
  “When someone joins the military, it’s not just a career.
  
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• Labour-hungry construction industry puzzled over StatCan job loss data

  07-09-2018 22:04
  TORONTO — Construction industry experts are scratching their heads over a Statistics Canada report which found that their sector shed 8,800 jobs last month, when they say they’re facing a wealth of openings and a lack of workers to fill them. The government-run data agency announced Friday that its national Labour Force Survey of 55,000 households found the industry’s employment level took a 1.7 per
  
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• Compliments Brand Chili Powder recalled due to Potential Salmonella

  07-09-2018 21:42
  La Cie McCormick Canada is recalling Compliments brand Chili Powder from the marketplace due to possible Salmonella contamination. Consumers should not consume the recalled product described below. The following product has been sold nationally. Recalled product Brand: Compliments Product: Chili Powder Size: 155 g UPC: 0 55742 35921 3 Codes: 2020 MA 26 What you […]
  
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• City staff remain firm on concrete sidewalk at city's north end

  07-09-2018 21:27 via saultstar.com
  City staff is still recommending that a concrete sidewalk be constructed on the south side of Second Line from Old Garden River Road to Great Northern Road.
  Council will receive a second report Monday, confirming the engineering department’s original report that concludes an asphalt sidewalk along that stretch of property adjacent to Algoma’s Water Tower Inn is not appropriate near the city’s busiest intersection.
  Council requested the additional staff report after Water Tower
  
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• Bayshore is Having a Job Fair

  07-09-2018 20:43
  The Sault Community Career Centre will be hosting a job fair at their offices at 503 Queen Street East on Thursday, September 13thth from 11 am to 6 pm for Bayshore Home Health.  The employer will be onsite for interviews, so please bring a copy of your resume and cover letter. Bayshore Home Health is […]
  
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• Pagnotta leads Knights past Steelhawks on opening night

  07-09-2018 20:29
  Following Korah’s crushing 64-0 victory over White Pines on Thursday night in the opening game of the 2018 High School Senior Football season, the Superior Heights Steelhawks and St. Mary’s Knights were the next two teams to take the field at Superior Heights on the same evening. The St. Mary’s Knights opened up their 2018 […]
  
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• EDC on track with last year's progress

  07-09-2018 19:36 via saultstar.com
  Mid-year statistics released by the Sault Ste. Marie Economic Development Corp suggest more young people are considering starting their own business.
  The statistics show that staff from the Millworks Centre for Entrepreneurship processed 804 inquiries from entrepreneurs and conducted 242 formal client consultations since the beginning of the year.
  To date, 105 small business start-ups, creating 125 jobs, are expected to be launched, the report states.
  Another seven companies were supported by th
  
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• Lawyer for Indigenous activist applauds Indians for removing logo

  07-09-2018 19:20
  TORONTO — The Cleveland Indians’ decision not to use their Chief Wahoo logo in Toronto on Thursday night was applauded by a lawyer representing an Indigenous activist. “We were very pleased to see that the team decided not to use the logo at the game in Toronto,” Lenczner Slaght lawyer Monique Jilesen, who has represented Douglas Cardinal, […]
  
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• Defending champion Colts blank Wolverines

  07-09-2018 19:15
  The 2018 Senior High School Football season officially kicked off on Thursday night in Sault Ste. Marie, as the defending champion Korah Colts took on the White Pines Wolverines at Superior Heights. The defending champion Korah Colts started their season off with a one sided victory on Thursday night as they blanked the White Pines […]
  
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• Hamilton and Sault Join Forces to Support Steel Industry

  07-09-2018 19:06
  The City of Sault Ste. Marie joins the City of Hamilton in efforts to support the Canadian steel industry. The tariff on Canadian steel entering the United States continues to pose a challenge for steel industry producers and the Steel Summit held in Hamilton on Friday was a chance for industry representatives, experts and elected […]
  
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• Police still searching for suspects in St. Catharines, Ont., shooting

  07-09-2018 18:58
  The search for two young men believed to be behind a shooting that wounded three people in a small southern Ontario city stretched into a second day on Friday as investigators worked to identify the suspects. Niagara regional police Const. Phil Gavin said that while investigators have released most previously cordoned-off areas related to the […]
  
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• Minister of Economic Development says decision within weeks on steel safeguards

  07-09-2018 18:47
  HAMILTON — Minister for Economic Development Navdeep Bains says the government plans to make a decision on safeguards against steel dumping in the coming weeks. Speaking at a summit in Hamilton, Ont., on the steel industry, Bains said the government is looking at the data and feedback it received from recent consultations on how to protect industry from the risk of cheap steel imports, which has increased […]
  
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• Sault Star Three Day Planner September 8

  07-09-2018 17:36 via saultstar.com
  Saturday Sept. 8
  The kidney community: will gather to raise awareness and funds to support their friends and neighbours living with kidney disease at Sault Ste. Marie Kidney Walk. Transplant recipients, living donors, donor families, dialysis patients, renal professionals and friends and families will rally together and take steps for the 1 in 10 Canadians currently living with kidney disease.  Registration begins at 9 AM ; Walk start time: 10 AM at Roberta Bondar Pavilion
  Live Music a
  
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• Canadian military issues guidelines for recreational marijuana to troops

  07-09-2018 17:36
  OTTAWA — The Canadian Forces are placing limits on when military personnel can use recreational marijuana once it becomes legal, with the restrictions based largely on service members’ jobs and current or upcoming missions. Supervisors are also being given directions on how to recognize whether their troops might be under the influence, including red or […]
  
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• Policy barring non-permanent families from Canada Child Benefit unfair: report

  07-09-2018 17:35
  OTTAWA — A new report out today is calling on the federal government to reverse a policy that prevents non-permanent resident families living in Canada, including irregular migrants, from receiving the Canada Child Benefit. Poverty advocates say this policy is discriminatory and is “glaringly inconsistent” with Canada’s international obligations to protect human rights. The report estimates […]
  
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• Food drive needs help

  07-09-2018 16:58 via saultstar.com
  An upcoming food drive to help St. Vincent Place needs about 60 volunteers.Big Blue Box Food Drive runs Sept. 29.Non-perishable food items can be put in boxes and put out by curbs by 10 a.m. that day.Seventeen pairs of drivers and runners are needed to collect donations, said marketing and fundraising coordinator Sara McCleary in an email. About another 15 helpers are needed to sort donations. Three or four volunteers with pickup trucks are required to transport food from St. Jerome’s Cath
  
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• Reynolds didn't pay for Sault phone calls

  07-09-2018 16:16 via saultstar.com
  Actor Burt Reynolds didn’t end up picking up the tab for long-distance calls made by Sault Ste. Marie residents nearly 35 years ago.Reynolds died Thursday. The star of Deliverance and Smokey and the Bandit was 82.Hold the phone! Burt’s not paying was published in The Sault Star on Oct. 9, 1984.Reynolds gave out his credit card number on a television show after reaching a settlement of about $500,000 from AT&T. The native of Lansing, Mich., claimed he was hit by a company vehicle.
  
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• Canada sheds 51,600 jobs to push up unemployment rate, but full-time work rises

  07-09-2018 14:57
  OTTAWA — The economy lost 51,600 jobs last month in a decrease that drove up the unemployment rate and essentially wiped out a big gain in July, Statistics Canada said Friday. The country’s jobless rate hit six per cent in August, up from its 5.8 per cent reading in July, said the agency’s labour force survey. The often-volatile monthly employment numbers followed […]
  
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• Native leader wants halt to Ring of Fire development

  07-09-2018 14:33 via saultstar.com
  No development should occur with the so-called Ring of Fire mining camp in northwestern Ontario until a wide variety of issues involving the affected First Nation communities are dealt with first, says a Wikwemikong First Nation man who organized a protest Thursday in Greater Sudbury.
  “I’m in the camp that says definitely ‘no,’” said Bruce McComber, holding a poster with the message, “Defend Anishnaabe Aki” at the main entrance to Laurentian University.
  
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• Nothing but sunshine and smiles in the forecast for tomorrow. facebook.com/story.php?stor…

  07-09-2018 14:10 via twitter.com
  Nothing but sunshine and smiles in the forecast for tomorrow. facebook.com/story.php?stor…
  
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• Former CIBC executive Tom Woods named chairman of the board at Hydro One

  07-09-2018 13:39
  TORONTO — Hydro One Ltd. says former CIBC executive Tom Woods has been named permanent chairman of its board of directors. Woods has been serving in the job on an interim basis since Aug. 14. The board of directors at the utility as well as its chief executive resigned earlier this year amid pressure from […]
  
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• Baloney Meter: Are Liberals to blame for cancelled energy projects?

  07-09-2018 13:30
  OTTAWA — “The Liberals are failing Canadians by destroying investment confidence in the energy sector in Canada… The reality is this: that under the Liberals more energy investment has been lost than any other time frame in 70 years, $100 billion of energy projects cancelled.” — MP Shannon Stubbs, Conservative natural resources critic, Sept. 4. Shannon Stubbs, […]
  
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• Missing Person Awareness Day is today.

  07-09-2018 10:13
  While missing persons are usually reported to police by family members, you do not have to be a relative to report a person missing. That is a message that the OPP are hoping will resonate with people as they plan to mark Missing Person Awareness Day in the district of Thunder Bay at Fort William […]
  
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• Indigenous groups have specific, measurable requests that could save pipeline

  07-09-2018 10:00
  OTTAWA — Rerouting the pipeline expansion to avoid a First Nation’s aquifer and ensuring another First Nation will always be immediately notified of a pipeline spill are among the steps Ottawa could take to address Indigenous concerns about the Trans Mountain pipeline. The pipeline already runs between Edmonton and Burnaby, B.C. carrying various types of crude and refined oil […]
  
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• Substantial Fines levied against River Valley Park Inc.

  07-09-2018 06:03
  The former owner of River Valley Park Inc. had a very bad day on August 24th, 2018.  After being found guilty under the Environmental Protection Act, (Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks)  as well as the Ontario Resources Water Act, Mr. Harjeet Singh Dusanjh was ordered to pay fines totally $71,250.00. The provincial court […]
  
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• Yep – You heard right. Catch the Ace still in Play.

  07-09-2018 04:41
  The line-up of people started early again this afternoon as folks pulled out their favourite lawn chair and waited along the sidewalk on Second Line, the patio, club and general vicinity of George Wellington Esquire Club to buy tickets on the ‘Catch The Ace’ fundraiser. In fact, the line-up stretched as far as the Mac’s […]
  
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• Coach John Parco talks Thunderbird hockey with ONNTV’s Matt Stefano

  07-09-2018 03:23
  The Soo Thunderbirds are getting set to kick off their 2018-2019 season tomorrow night at 7pm at the John Rhodes Community Centre, and tonight I had the chance to chat with head coach John Parco about this year’s team. Parco, who is entering his second season behind the bench with the Thunderbirds, was named the […]
  
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• Catch the Ace 'brings the community together'

  07-09-2018 02:43 via saultstar.com
  Long-time friends Susan Greco and Janet Cameron can add another experience to their lengthy relationship.The two women were first in line to play week 48 of Esquire Club’s Catch the Ace draw on Thursday. The pair have not previously played the weekly lottery that is raising cash for Group Health Centre Trust Fund and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Sault Ste. Marie.They claimed their spots at 9:30 a.m. – eight-and-a-half hours before sales began at 6 p.m.They passed the time by reading,
  
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• As curtain goes up in Toronto, new faces fill audiences

  07-09-2018 02:22
  TORONTO — The Toronto International Film Festival prides itself on offering a diverse array of stories. This year, North America’s largest film festival is also making sure that the media that covers its films is diverse, too. Some 180 journalists and critics from underrepresented groups were granted credentials to the film festival, and many had […]
  
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• Put the Coffee on and Perk Up – for the Alzheimer Society.

  07-09-2018 01:01
  Sault Ste. Marie, ON – On September 20th, you are invited to Make a difference, one cup at a time by taking part in Coffee Break®, the Alzheimer Society’s largest nationwide fundraiser that simply asks participants to share a cup of coffee in exchange for a donation to their local Society. It’s a fun way […]
  
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• CHAPUT, Aaron Peter

  07-09-2018 00:30
  With profound and heart shattering sadness, the family of Aaron Chaput announce his death at the Sault Area Hospital, peacefully, in his sleep on September 5, 2018.  Aaron had battled ulcerative colitis and crohns courageously, without losing his sense of humour, for over half of his 28 short years.  Our lives have been changed forever […]
  
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