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• Federal government announces funding to improve safety of LGBTQ Canadians

  24-11-2018 23:18
  TORONTO — The federal government announced Saturday it will invest nearly half a million dollars in improving the safety of Canada’s LGBTQ community in the wake of the killings of eight men with ties to Toronto’s gay village. Finance Minister Bill Morneau said the government will provide $450,000 to Pride Toronto to lead an initiative that aims to improve the […]
  
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• Happy to watch as #auxiliaryconstable Ryan Harnden & Team Jacobs volunteer their time with Sault North Rotary club… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  24-11-2018 22:54 via twitter.com
  Happy to watch as#auxiliaryconstable Ryan Harnden & Team Jacobs volunteer their time with Sault North Rotary club… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Happy to watch as #auxiliaryconstable @ryanharnden19 and @teambradjacobs volunteer their time with #Sault North… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  24-11-2018 22:51 via twitter.com
  Happy to watch as#auxiliaryconstable @ryanharnden19 and @teambradjacobs volunteer their time with #Sault North… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• A post Thanksgiving litany - News - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  24-11-2018 22:18 via sooeveningnews.com
  A post Thanksgiving litany - News  Sault Ste. Marie Evening NewsSo I was thankful a week ago Friday for my insurance… Reduced the cost of my prescription by 65%… Then I was thankful for my wife, she had gone in to get ...
  
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• Ready, Set, Build! (Gallery)

  24-11-2018 21:50
  The Dennis St. entrance at the Station Mall was packed full of rowdy people ready to have fun at Saturday morning’s “Sweet Homes for the Soup Kitchen – Gingerbread House Face-off” event. This event was put on by students in Sault College’s Public Relations and Event Management Program to raise money for the Soup Kitchen […]
  
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• Sault Based Tug Crashes Onto Dock In Detroit

  24-11-2018 18:42
  A Tugboat owned by Sault Ste. Marie based, Purvis Marine Ltd. carrying a load of rolled steel coil crashed onto a dock in the Detroit River according to reports from the CBC. The vessel was traveling at a slow speed of around 15 km/h when the barge it was towing   crashed onto a dock west […]
  
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• MVC Pim Strett and Church Street - UPDATE - news.ssmps.ca/EN/News/index.…

  24-11-2018 18:37 via twitter.com
  MVC Pim Strett and Church Street - UPDATE - news.ssmps.ca/EN/News/index.…
  
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• Senate debates legislation that would order postal workers back to work

  24-11-2018 18:30
  OTTAWA — Senators spent hours on Saturday studying legislation that would order an end to postal workers’ rotating strikes, as the bill quickly passed the first two readings in the upper house. The bill was sent to the Senate early Saturday, just hours after the Liberal government pushed it through the House of Commons in […]
  
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• Three more cases of E. coli confirmed, none found in tested Canadian lettuce

  24-11-2018 18:00
  OTTAWA — The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has tested more than 2,000 samples of fresh lettuce and packaged salads looking for the source of an E. coli outbreak but hasn’t found any produce that contains the bacteria. Aline Dimitri, the deputy chief food-safety officer for the agency, says the results don’t mean E. coli is gone […]
  
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• Ontario creates new French commissioner job after days of backlash over cuts

  24-11-2018 17:50
  TORONTO — After days of backlash over its cuts to institutions serving francophones, Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government says it’s making changes meant to recognize the “significant and ongoing” contributions of the Franco-Ontarian community. In a statement Friday evening, Premier Doug Ford says his government is creating the position of French-Language Services Commissioner within the provincial ombudsman’s office, […]
  
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• Conservative MP urges feds to respond to ‘non-state torture’ in Canada

  24-11-2018 16:19
  OTTAWA — The Canadian government has to answer to the findings of two nurses who told a United Nations committee this week that women and girls in Canada are facing abuse so extreme it amounts to torture, Conservative MP Arnold Viersen says. Linda MacDonald and Jeanne Sarson, nurses and human-rights advocates from Nova Scotia, appeared before the United Nations Committee […]
  
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• Special Olympic athletes head to Sault Ste. Marie for 2019 Provincial Games - CBC.ca

  24-11-2018 16:00 via cbc.ca
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  Special Olympic athletes head to Sault Ste. Marie for 2019 Provincial Games
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  More than a dozen Special Olympic athletes from Thunder Bay, Ont., will be travelling to Sault Ste. Marie in the new year to showcase their winter sport skills in the 2019 Special Olympic Provincial Games. A total of 17 athletes will be competing in ...
  
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• Local businesses band together for Small Business Saturday - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  24-11-2018 15:08 via sooeveningnews.com
  Local businesses band together for Small Business Saturday  Sault Ste. Marie Evening NewsSmall Business Saturday, started in 2010 to encourage consumers to shop in their small local stores rather than national chains and what are called big box ...
  
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• Millroy: Will New Council Fix This Mistake?

  24-11-2018 13:58
  In my column last week I excoriated the city’s Public Works and Traffic officials for allowing line-painters from Guelph to screw up the configuration at the intersection of Albert and East Streets and council for sitting idly by in acceptance. I said I was bringing up this problem intersection again now in the hope that […]
  
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• One badly hurt in downtown-area crash

  24-11-2018 13:51 via saultstar.com
  One person was seriously hurt in a single motor vehicle collision early Saturday.
  The crash happened at Church Street and Wellington Street East at bout 5:15 a.m.Three other people were treated for minor injuries at the scene, police say.Pim Street is closed to southbound traffic at Wemyss Street. Northbound traffic on Church Street is closed at Wellington Street East.
  
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• Crash closes downtown intersection

  24-11-2018 13:51 via saultstar.com
  One person was seriously hurt in a single motor vehicle collision early Saturday.
  The crash happened at Church Street and Wellington Street East at bout 5:15 a.m.Three other people were treated for minor injuries at the scene, police say.Pim Street is closed to southbound traffic at Wemyss Street. Northbound traffic on Church Street is closed at Wellington Street East.
  
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• MVC Pim Street and Church Street Road Closed - news.ssmps.ca/EN/News/index.…

  24-11-2018 13:02 via twitter.com
  MVC Pim Street and Church Street Road Closed - news.ssmps.ca/EN/News/index.…
  
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• UPDATED: Serious Injuries In Single Vehicle Collision – Driver Charged

  24-11-2018 11:20
  UPDATE : 12:52 PM Pim Street And Church Street are now open to traffic in both directions. Officers from Traffic Services and Patrol Service have cleared the area. The driver of the vehicle remains in hospital with non life threatening injuries. As a result of investigation 24 year old Brendan Stewart of First Avenue has […]
  
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• Serious Injuries In Single Vehicle Collision

  24-11-2018 11:20
  At approximately 5:15 a.m. officers with The Sault Ste. Marie Police Service responded to a single motor vehicle collision in there area of Church Street and Wellington Street.  One person has been transported from the scene with serious injuries and three others were treated for minor injuries at the scene. At this time Pim Street […]
  
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• Serious Injuries In Multiple Vehicle Collision

  24-11-2018 11:20
  At approximately 5:15 a.m. officers with The Sault Ste. Marie Police Service responded to a single motor vehicle collision in there area of Church Street and Wellington Street.  One person has been transported from the scene with serious injuries and three others were treated for minor injuries at the scene. At this time Pim Street […]
  
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• Tourism Sault Ste. Marie crowns 2018 award winners - Lake Superior News

  24-11-2018 09:00 via lakesuperiornews.com
  Tourism Sault Ste. Marie crowns 2018 award winners  Lake Superior NewsSault Ste. Marie, Ontario Tourism Sault Ste. Marie honoured the industry's best and brightest yesterday at its 16th annual awards night. The event recognized ...
  
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• Festive Ride. Get with the programme.

  24-11-2018 03:09
  The North East Region OPP detachments launched Festive Ride Provincial Traffic Safety Campaign today, joining OPP  officers across the province for the annual ride checkpoint sleuthing that – frankly – makes me feel a whole lot better. Every single one of the people stolen from every single person who loved that person had their story […]
  
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• Today Chief Stevenson was pleased to join @cst.kirkpatrick @emilyssmps at White Pines to help gather items for… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  24-11-2018 00:40 via twitter.com
  Today Chief Stevenson was pleased to join @cst.kirkpatrick@emilyssmps at White Pines to help gather items for… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Family Business in Sault Ste Marie Celebrates A Century of Trees - 9&10 News

  24-11-2018 00:17 via 9and10news.com
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  Family Business in Sault Ste Marie Celebrates A Century of Trees
  9&10 News
  Not too many businesses can say they stay in business for 100 years. But one Sault Sainte Marie family has reached that century mark this Christmas season. Allie Rogers started selling Christmas trees in 1918. For years, he went door to door selling ...
  
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• Today @chiefstevenson1 was pleased to join @a_kirkpatrick @emilyssmps at @CalvanoFrank to help gather items for… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  24-11-2018 00:16 via twitter.com
  Today @chiefstevenson1 was pleased to join @a_kirkpatrick@emilyssmps at @CalvanoFrank to help gather items for… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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