Sault Ste. Marie news

• Hounds and Bulldogs to play on Sportsnet once again

  18-10-2018 23:48
  Two teams! Two dogs! Two steel cities! And a rematch from last season’s OHL Final! Sportsnet has announced its broadcast schedule for the 2018-2019 season, and the Soo Greyhounds will have one televised game on December 15th at 3:30 p.m., when they visit Hamilton to take on the Bulldogs. The only other OHL teams that […]
  
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• Canada not sending anyone to Saudi business summit and never intended to: source

  18-10-2018 23:19
  OTTAWA — Canada will not be sending anyone to a major investment conference in Saudi Arabia next week at a time when Riyadh is the target of global outrage – but sources insist Ottawa never intended to dispatch a delegation this time around. A senior government source says cabinet ministers, federal officials and embassy staff will skip next week’s […]
  
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• NORDIK Institute’s AGM will feature a panel on Culture, Place and Community Resilience

  18-10-2018 22:31
  NORDIK AGM TO FEATURE PANEL ON CULTURE, PLACE, AND COMMUNITY RESILIENCE Guests Jude Ortiz, Michael Burtch, Shirley Horn, Miranda Bouchard and Jon Cada discuss the role of Culture in creating healthy and sustainable communities SAULT STE. MARIE, ON, October 16TH, 2018 – NORDIK Institute will celebrate its 11th Annual General Meeting on Thursday, November 1st […]
  
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• Nature terms refound, and a movement ignited, with ‘The Lost Words’ book

  18-10-2018 22:28
  TORONTO — British writer Robert Macfarlane has witnessed first-hand the disappearance of certain nature-oriented words from the lexicon of children. “I’ve been in classes where no child knows what a wren is, no child knows what a kingfisher is,” he says. “We have spoken with several teachers who hold up an acorn or a picture of […]
  
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• Multiple drug charges

  18-10-2018 22:10 via saultstar.com
  A Sault Ste. Marie drug bust has yielded three arrests and a spate of charges.
  On Tuesday, just after 2 p.m., officers with the drug enforcement, break and enter and crime suppression units of Sault Ste. Marie Police Service, conducted a vehicle stop and discovered 87.81 grams of cocaine powder, 77.66 grams of crystal methamphetamine, 2.24 grams of Fentanyl powder and 42 oxycodone pills, and made two arrests. Police say they later discovered 1.4 grams of heroin on one of the accused and fou
  
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• Deputy Chief Sean Sparling Speaking about Drug Investiation facebook.com/ssmpolice/vide…

  18-10-2018 21:49 via twitter.com
  Deputy Chief Sean Sparling Speaking about Drug Investiation facebook.com/ssmpolice/vide…
  
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• 3 Arrested in Drug Investigation #Sault #Police #SaultNews #TheSoo - news.ssmps.ca/EN/News/index.…

  18-10-2018 21:47 via twitter.com
  3 Arrested in Drug Investigation #Sault #Police #SaultNews #TheSoo - news.ssmps.ca/EN/News/index.…
  
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• Academic Justice 101

  18-10-2018 21:29 via saultstar.com
  Come the spring of 1975, things were about to heat up as a result of the sale that saw Algoma College buy 34 acres of the campus; Shingwauk Hall and north, from the Anglican Church.
  What Don Jackson had referred to as basically an under the table deal, ignited a controversy that could no longer be put back into the box.
  That spring, Lawrence Brown, who was the director of community relations at Algoma Steel and also chairman of the Algoma College board and the property committee of the Anglican
  
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• Lalonde, Aurel

  18-10-2018 20:48
  Passed away peacefully in the loving arms of his wife Pauline, daughter Suzanne and granddaughter Renee at age 84 on October 17, 2018 at the Sault Area Hospital after a courageous battle with cancer. He is survived by his beloved wife Pauline, his daughter Suzanne and husband Tim Lamour, granddaughter Renee and husband Bobby Jensen, […]
  
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• Supreme Court to hear case on clean-up of mercury at northern Ontario mill site

  18-10-2018 20:40
  OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada says it will hear a legal dispute over whether the Ontario government can force Weyerhaeuser Co. and Resolute Forest Products to clean up a contaminated site upstream of the Grassy Narrows First Nation. The two sides have been at odds since the province ordered the companies in 2011 to remediate the former mill site in Dryden, Ont., where some 9,000 kilograms […]
  
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• Jessy Needs Your Help

  18-10-2018 20:25
  Local resident Jessy James is a very special little girl, there may be only one other person in the world like her. Unfortunately, what makes Jessy special is a rare neurological disorder, she was diagnosed with hydrocephalus three years ago when she was six,  but that’s not all, the doctors also found  3 cysts in […]
  
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• Deputy Chief sean.sparling.1422 preparing to address #thesoo regarding another #drugseizure our officers have made.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  18-10-2018 20:01 via twitter.com
  Deputy Chief sean.sparling.1422 preparing to address #thesoo regarding another #drugseizure our officers have made.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Ritchie is getting richer

  18-10-2018 19:48
  Ritchie is getting richer! It was announced on Wednesday that former Soo Greyhounds forward Nick Ritchie has signed a three-year entry level contract with the National Hockey League’s Anaheim Ducks. The deal is worth $4.6 million, carrying a $1.53 million average annual value. The Orangeville, Ontario native sat out the entire preseason and the first […]
  
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• From politics to pot: Legislators now in the cannabis business

  18-10-2018 18:45
  OTTAWA — Former prime minister Jean Chretien once joked while in office that he would be ready to smoke marijuana in retirement, but a number of politicians and political operatives have actually found a spot in the cannabis industry. Here are some of the more high-profile former politicos in the marijuana trade — and the one whose entry […]
  
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• Canada Post Pays Tribute to First Responders

  18-10-2018 18:28
  On October 18, 2018, members of Sault Ste. Marie Fire Services were presented with stamps from their local Canada Post that pay tribute to Emergency Responders. Representatives from EMS, Fire, along with local Canada Post workers gathered at Fire Hall #1 on Tancred Street for the presentation. Both EMS and Fire received a commemorative plaque […]
  
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• Father of terror suspect says his son is innocent, deserves Canada’s protection

  18-10-2018 18:23
  OTTAWA — The father of a British-Canadian man imprisoned in Syria says his son is not a terrorist and deserves Canada’s protection. In a letter to MPs, John Letts says his son, Jack, is a naive young man who went to Syria hoping to create a peaceful, utopian Muslim state and wound up trapped when […]
  
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• NDP calls on Liberals to further reduce credit card fees paid by small business

  18-10-2018 18:21
  OTTAWA — The federal New Democrats are calling on the Liberal government to lower and cap the fees credit card companies collect from small businesses. Last summer, Ottawa announced voluntary, five-year deals with Visa and MasterCard to trim the fees to an average annual effective rate of 1.4 per cent — down from 1.5 per cent — and narrow the gap between […]
  
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• Thank you to @canadapostcorp for presenting us with our #emergencyresponders stamps. @CitySSM https://t.co/kNSmJMKJkI

  18-10-2018 17:56 via twitter.com
  
  Thank you to @canadapostcorp for presenting us with our #emergencyresponders stamps. @CitySSM https://t.co/kNSmJMKJkI
  
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• BURKE, Florence “Ruby” (nee Hill)

  18-10-2018 17:48
  Much loved Mother, Grandmother and Great-grandmother passed away peacefully at Maple View Extendicare on Wednesday, October 17, 2018 at the age of 95. Predeceased by her husbands James Morley Burke and Frank Fyfe. Loving and devoted mother of Sharla Charrette (nee Fyfe) and her husband James. Dear grandmother of Kevin Charrette, Renee Tomasetti (Anthony). Loving […]
  
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• Pot grower Aphria Inc. applies to list on New York Stock Exchange

  18-10-2018 15:56
  LEAMINGTON, Ont. — Licensed producer Aphria Inc. has applied to list its common shares on the New York Stock Exchange. The Leamington, Ont.-based cannabis company submitted its registration statement to U.S. securities regulators today. An Aphria spokeswoman says the company will provide details such as its anticipated trading date and ticker symbol when available and after it […]
  
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• Police lay charges against man accused of jumping naked into shark tank

  18-10-2018 15:50
  TORONTO — A British Columbia man is facing charges in two separate but related incidents in Toronto, including one where he’s accused of jumping naked into a shark tank at an aquarium. Toronto Police allege the first incident took place early Friday evening outside Medieval Times, where they say he assaulted a man. Two hours […]
  
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• BLACK, Melvin Wynne

  18-10-2018 15:16
  Peacefully at the F. J. Davey Home on Friday, October 12, 2018 in his 88th year. Predeceased by his parents Oswald and Gertrude Black. Dear brother of late Jim, late Ben, late Eileen Hunter, late Lloyd (Alma), Wanda Killins (late Gerald), Olive Jones (late Basil), late Bill (Kay), Garry (Ethel), late Lee (Carmen) and Sharon […]
  
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• Bulldogs Beat Attack in Shootout - Bayshore Broadcasting News Centre

  18-10-2018 12:50 via bayshorebroadcasting.ca
  Bulldogs Beat Attack in Shootout
  Bayshore Broadcasting News Centre
  Ontario Hockey League. Hamilton Bulldogs 7 Owen Sound Attack 6 (SO) Sault Ste Marie Greyhounds 6 Saginaw Spirit 3. Erie Otters 4 Niagara IceDogs 3. Bulldogs 7 Attack 6. Arthur Kaliyev had a hat trick to lead the Bulldogs who overcame an early 2-0 ...and more »
  
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• Hounds double up Spirit

  18-10-2018 05:31
  After dropping a 3-2 overtime decision to the North Bay Battalion on Sunday afternoon, the Soo Greyhounds were looking to get back on the winning track on Wednesday night as they took on the Saginaw Spirit at the GFL Memorial Gardens. The Hounds, who entered Wednesday night’s game with a record of 5 wins, 3 […]
  
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• “We must strive for inclusivity, compassion, and mutual respect”: Jason Young, Ward 2 candidate

  18-10-2018 05:09
  As election day nears and campaigns draw to an end, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the voters of Ward 2, and the people of Sault Ste. Marie for opening their ears, eyes, and doors for me and all of the other candidates. We are extremely lucky to, every four years, have […]
  
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• Do you know someone in Algoma-Manitoulin who deserves a medal?

  18-10-2018 02:55
  Algoma-Manitoulin MPP Michael Mantha encourages nominations for Ontario Good Citizenship Medal. Throughout my years of service as MPP for Algoma-Manitoulin I have always been so very impressed with the number of citizens that we have in this riding who make incredible contributions as leaders and helpers in our communities. My office receives notification of the […]
  
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• A taxing tiff

  18-10-2018 01:50 via saultstar.com
  The city’s top two mayoral candidates are continuing to take polar opposite sides as to whether Sault Ste. Marie taxpayers pay more or less than their comparative counterparts.
  Rory Ring claims that Sault Ste. Marie’s taxes are among the highest of comparable cities, while Christian Provenzano counters that Ring is disseminating erroneous information and that his facts and figures are just not true.
  More importantly, Provenzano said Ring has been previously told the numbers were inco
  
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• Lukenda named to LSSU board

  18-10-2018 01:46 via saultstar.com
  LANSING, Mich. – Tim Lukenda has been appointed to the Lake Superior State University Board of Trustees.
  He replaces Doug Bovin, of Gladstone, Mich., who served on the board from 2010 to 18. Gov. Rick Snyder made the appointment.
  The eight-person board is LSSU’s governing body.
  “I thank these highly qualified individuals for serving the state of Michigan,” Snyder said. “I am confident the work they do on these boards and commissions will positively impact the state
  
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