Sault Ste. Marie news

• Catholic board marks EQAO success, acknowledges improvement needed

  03-11-2018 21:48 via saultstar.com
  Reading and writing scores of Grade 6 students top the provincial average, but literacy test results for Grade 10 applied English students continue to drop for Huron-Superior Catholic District School Board.Just 26 per cent of second-year students who wrote the literacy test for the first time in 2017-2018 were successful. The provincial average was 39 per cent.The English Catholic board’s success rate was 50 per cent in 2014-2015, the same as the provincial average. Applied English student
  
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• CLA is Helping Kids Stay Warm This Winter

  03-11-2018 20:21
  Community Living Algoma held its 24th annual Coats for Kids campaign on Saturday morning at their location on White Oak Drive E. Brought to fruition by a member of CTV 24 years ago, this free campaign is just one of the ways CLA helps the community. Volunteers spent six weeks prior to this event collecting […]
  
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• Craft show browsing

  03-11-2018 20:17 via saultstar.com
  An overview of Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre’s sixth annual Holiday Gift and Craft Show on Saturday afternoon. The two-day event featured 100 vendors. The craft show is the museum’s biggest annual fundraiser. Holiday Gift and Craft Show: Algoma and Beyond runs Saturday from noon to 6 p.m. Admission is by donation to the museum.
  
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• Algoma's net income climbs

  03-11-2018 14:42 via saultstar.com
  Algoma earned $1.339 billion in revenue in the first six months of the 2019 financial year.That’s up from $1.053 billion in the first half of the 2018 fiscal year.Seventy six per cent of revenue earned, or $1.017 billion, was the from sale of sheet and strip products. Plate sales stood at $210.3 million, or 16 per cent of total revenue, the company reports.Sales to customers in the United States stood at $785.6 million, or 59 per cent. Canadian customer sales totaled $510.8 million, or 38
  
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• Police Seeking Information on Stolen Trailer

  03-11-2018 14:30
  Crime Stoppers and the Sault Ste. Marie Police Service are asking for your assistance in locating a stolen trailer. Sometime between 5:00 p.m. October 30th to 9:00 a.m. on October 31st the suspect attended the parking lot of A & W located at 121 Great Northern Road and stole a trailer. The trailer is described […]
  
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• Bill 47 protest planned

  03-11-2018 13:38 via saultstar.com
  Opponents to the provincial government’s Bill 47 will rally outside Sault Ste. Marie MPP Ross Romano’s office on Tuesday.Making Ontario Open for Business Act will scrub a planned minimum wage increase to $15 on Jan. 1, mandatory three-hour pay when shifts are cancelled with less than 48 hours notice and 10 emergency leave days.The protest starts at 1 p.m. at Elgin Tower at 390 Bay St.
  
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• Doug Millroy: Canadians Should Be Outraged!

  03-11-2018 13:03
  The Canadian people should be outraged. Not only because Adrienne Clarkson, who was governor general from 1999 to 2005, has billed more than $1 million in expenses since leaving the viceregal job, but that she was allowed to do it. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says people who serve as governor general offer great service to […]
  
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• Penalty Troubles Triumphed, Greyhounds Win 4-3 in OT

  03-11-2018 12:56
  The battle of the top two teams in the OHL’s western conference took place Friday night, where the (11-3-3) first place Hounds played host to the (9-4-2) second place Guelph Storm. If the previous Hounds game was a telltale sign as to what their offence is capable of, then expectations would be high before the […]
  
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• Updated Food Recall Warning – Janes brand Pub Style Chicken Strips recalled due to Salmonella

  03-11-2018 12:49
  The food recall warning issued on October 26, 2018 has been updated to include additional product information. This additional information was identified during the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s (CFIA) food safety investigation. Sofina Foods Inc. is recalling Janes brand Pub Style Chicken Strips from the marketplace due to possible Salmonella contamination. Consumers should not consume […]
  
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• Protesters delay Toronto debate involving Bannon

  03-11-2018 11:21
  TORONTO — A Canadian crowd laughed derisively at former White House strategist Steve Bannon on Friday and police made several arrests as protesters delayed the start of a controversial debate featuring Bannon and conservative commentator David Frum. Toronto Police tweeted there had been “a number of arrests” but no reported injuries. The debate was delayed […]
  
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• Teeter-Totter-A-Thon - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  03-11-2018 08:00 via sooeveningnews.com
  Teeter-Totter-A-Thon  Sault Ste. Marie Evening NewsLake Superior State University students rock on a teeter-totter on the corner of Spruce and Ashmun on Friday in downtown Sault Ste. Marie. For the 30th year, ...
  
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• Roundabout - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  03-11-2018 08:00 via sooeveningnews.com
  Roundabout  Sault Ste. Marie Evening NewsA traffic change began Friday afternoon — allowing motorists to access the roundabout on the I-75 Business Spur. Once traffic begins to flow through the ...
  
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• Ex-Trump aide Bannon tells protest-delayed debate populists ‘anti-fascist’

  03-11-2018 02:40
  TORONTO — Ordinary people have long been shut out by political and capitalist elites who have done them immense harm, the former strategist who helped Donald Trump win the White House told a protest-delayed debate in Toronto on Friday. Denying Trump or his supporters are racist, Steve Bannon called populists the true anti-fascists because, he […]
  
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