Sault Ste. Marie news

• Guelph U launches AI ethics centre amid growing debate around data privacy, bias

  13-12-2018 23:33
  The University of Guelph is launching a new hub for artificial intelligence to grapple with ethical questions amidst growing concern around issues of privacy, bias and human-machine interaction. Zeroing in on the moral side of everything from medical imaging to automated credit card approvals, the Centre for Advancing Responsible and Ethical Artificial Intelligence (CARE-AI) aims to bring together […]
  
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• Bomb Threat Shuts Down Michigan Sault Hospital

  13-12-2018 23:29
  American news sources are reporting an alleged bomb threat to the War Memorial Hospital in Sault Ste. Marie Michigan on Thursday afternoon. According to sources, the hospital was one of four Michigan hospitals that received an email Thursday indicating a bomb threat. War Memorial received an email at around 1:30pm Thursday. Sault Michigan Police surrounded […]
  
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• Scheer blames Trudeau’s ‘naive approach’ to China for Huawei crisis

  13-12-2018 23:26
  OTTAWA — The dilemma Canada finds itself in over its arrest of top Chinese business executive Meng Wanzhou is a result of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s “naive approach” to China, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer insisted Thursday. Canadian entrepreneur Michael Spavor and former diplomat Michael Kovrig were detained this week in Beijing on suspicion of “engaging in activities that endanger the national security” […]
  
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• Beijing Information Technical College Representatives Visit Sault College

  13-12-2018 23:19
  Nine representatives from Beijing Information Technical College (BITC) in Beijing, China got the full Sault College experience during a ten day visit to Sault Ste. Marie and Sault College. The guests, which included five electrical faculty, one math faculty, one mental health faculty, one communications faculty and one vice-principal, eagerly joined us on campus to […]
  
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• 99 jobs up for grabs

  13-12-2018 23:17 via saultstar.com
  Employment Solutions currently has 99 jobs available from the various employers they are working with in the community for job seekers in the Sault Ste. Marie and Algoma district.
  “Our job development team works diligently in the background reaching out to employers in our community, to ensure up-to-date information on hiring is brought back to the team,” says Catherine Tosello, team lead for job matching, placement and incentive. “Our registered clients are then privy to behin
  
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• Dealing with an aging dam

  13-12-2018 23:11 via saultstar.com
  THESSALON — The Shaw Dam, located 10 kilometres north of Thessalon, no longer meets safety guidelines for stability.
  A public meeting is being held on Tuesday at 6 p.m, at the Thessalon Township Community Centre at 4 Little Rapids Rd. The draft plan is available at both the Thessalon and Huron Shores Public Libraries and community offices.
  Karen Passmore, regional outreach specialist, Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry said, MNRF uses public meetings to disseminate information and
  
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• Flannigan Brings Worldwide Movement to Sault

  13-12-2018 23:03
  Kara Flannigan, says we are currently experiencing an worldwide ecological crisis. But, she not going to seat back and watch it happen.  Flannigan is taking action to as she says; engage in “peaceful civil disobedience.” To that end she has brought “Extinction Rebellion”, a worldwide social movement that aims to pressure governments through nonviolent protests […]
  
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• Saluting more Sault Star Santa Fund donors

  13-12-2018 23:01 via saultstar.com
  Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to family and friends from Jerry and Doreen Gray $100.00
  Have a fabulous Christmas $10.00
  Joyous Holiday Season and Happy New Year ahead –Nibs $50.00
  Anonymous $75.00
  Merry Christmas to all $50.00
  Hauskaa Joulua, Merry Christmas to family and friends-Kari and NJ $50.00
  Merry Christmas $5.00
  Merry Christmas to all from Beth and Glen Sagle $100.00
  Merry Christmas – Michele Taillefer $100.00
  In loving memory of George and Lorraine Ougler from Jeffrey a
  
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• Sault Ste. Marie Hospital Receives Bomb Threats; FBI Investigating Similar Threats Across US - 9&10 News

  13-12-2018 22:54
  Sault Ste. Marie Hospital Receives Bomb Threats; FBI Investigating Similar Threats Across US  9&10 NewsA surge of dozens of bomb threats across the country, including here in Michigan. Many investigators are saying the threats are linked to Russian sources.
  
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• Sault Ste. Marie Hospital Receives Bomb Threat; FBI Investigating Similar Threats Across US - 9&10 News

  13-12-2018 22:54
  Sault Ste. Marie Hospital Receives Bomb Threat; FBI Investigating Similar Threats Across US  9&10 NewsA surge of dozens of bomb threats across the country, including here in Michigan. Many investigators are saying the threats are linked to Russian sources.
  
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• Carroll Going to Top Prospects Game

  13-12-2018 22:53
  For the 10th straight season (the longest current streak in the CHL) the Soo Greyhounds will once again be represented at the Sherwin-Williams CHL/NHL Top Prospects Game. When forty (40) prospects head West to Red Deer, Alberta next month that group will include one Greyhound – Joe Carroll. Carroll, a native of Carp ON, is in the midst […]
  
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• MCFARLING, James Francis

  13-12-2018 22:51
    Unexpectedly in his 60th year on December 11, 2018. Although he died without human contact, he was surrounded by God’s Angels and all those who loved him and who had gone ahead to prepare the way. James was predeceased by his parents Maureen and Bill. He is brother to Claranne, Michael and Claudette, David […]
  
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• Senate rebukes Saudi Arabia over Khashoggi, Yemen war - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  13-12-2018 22:33
  Senate rebukes Saudi Arabia over Khashoggi, Yemen war  Sault Ste. Marie Evening NewsThe succession of bipartisan votes came two months after the Saudi journalist's slaying at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and after Trump persistently ...
  
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• Google CEO tries to explain why Trump’s image shows under a search for ‘idiot’

  13-12-2018 22:16
  Google CEO, Sundar Pichai, appeared in front of U.S. lawmakers this past Tuesday to discuss hurdles that tech companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon and others are likely to face when the 116th Congress convenes. The congressional hearing lasted about 3 1/2 hours and was primarily focused on topics such as online privacy, data protection and […]
  
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• Thinking about the box: toymakers reinvent packaging for the unboxing age

  13-12-2018 22:14
  TORONTO — Any kid knows that the toy box is the most fun, and a plethora of wacky packaging these days makes that especially true this holiday season. Credit those online unboxing videos that feature dramatic descriptions of every aspect of a toy inside and out, along with a drawn-out ritual of rotating the unopened box for inspection, […]
  
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• Sault girls drive past Bulldogs - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  13-12-2018 22:10
  Sault girls drive past Bulldogs  Sault Ste. Marie Evening NewsRUDYARD — Sault High came out shooting, connecting on four 3-pointers just a couple of minutes into Wednesday's game against Rudyard. The Blue Devils ...
  
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• White Pines in the Running for CBC’s Canadian Music Class Challenge

  13-12-2018 22:01
  After submitting an audition tape alongside over 1,000 other competitors, White Pines Collegiate and Vocational School has been announced as a Top 10 finalist in CBC’s Canadian Music Class Challenge. The school did a rendition of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah, with approximately 300 students from White Pines and its ‘feeder’ elementary schools – Anna McCrea, Grand View, Mountain […]
  
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• Keep downtown traffic flow with one-way system, consultant recommends

  13-12-2018 21:34 via saultstar.com
  A lengthy Environmental Assessment study that examined traffic flow in the city’s downtown core recommends that the existing one-way system be retained.
  But the study also says that Sault Ste. Marie doesn’t have the traffic capacity for the four-lane system on Bay Street – and won’t in the future.
  The study recommends that Bay Street, between Andrew and Pim Streets, be converted to a two lane one-way street with turning lanes at busy intersections.
  The turning lanes are r
  
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• Coal power in Canada must disappear by the end of 2029, new regulations say

  13-12-2018 21:08
  OTTAWA — The death knell for coal-fired electricity in Canada is set to ring in just over 12 years. Ottawa put the final regulations in effect this week with such strict pollution standards for coal-power plants that only one plant in Canada can possibly meet them. The Boundary Dam coal plant in Saskatchewan uses carbon capture and storage technology […]
  
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• City Services Holiday Hours

  13-12-2018 19:43
  The City of Sault Ste. Marie would like to advise residents of its hours of operation for services provided during the holiday season. Administrative Offices: Closed December 25, 26 and January 1. Includes the Cemetery office, Civic Centre, GFL Memorial Gardens office, Sault Transit, and Public Works and Engineering Services. For 24 hour emergency service […]
  
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• New parking app coming to Sault Ste. Marie - Sault Star

  13-12-2018 19:35
  New parking app coming to Sault Ste. Marie  Sault StarStill looking for that change in the bottom of your vehicle's cup holder so you can park legally downtown? That can be a thing of the past now that city council has ...
  
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• New parking app coming to Sault Ste. Marie

  13-12-2018 19:30 via saultstar.com
  Looking for that change in the bottom of your vehicle’s cup holder so you can park legally downtown?
  That will be a thing of the past now that city council has passed a one-year pilot project that will see the city implementing a mobile parking payment solution.
  Implementation dates for the system have not yet been finalized.
  Passport Labs Inc. submitted the successful bid of eight proponents as required by the city’s parking division.
  The pilot project, which can be extended annuall
  
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• Man faces sexual interference charges

  13-12-2018 19:21 via saultstar.com
  City police have charged a 50-year-old man for sexual interference.
  It is alleged that on multiple occasions in April 2018 the accused touched a young person known to him for sexual purposes.
  The man faces charges of three counts of sexual assault, two counts of sexual interference, one count of invitation to sexual touching and two counts of uttering threats.
  He was to appear in bail court.
  
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• VIDEO: Sing it, Sault Ste Marie - SooToday.com

  13-12-2018 19:00
  VIDEO: Sing it, Sault Ste Marie  SooToday.comSooToday cameras stopped by Station Mall where several shoppers not only told us what their favourite Christmas song is, they sang it. Tell us your favourite ...
  
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• Toyota recalls some models from 2002 to 2004 for faulty airbag inflators

  13-12-2018 18:26
  TORONTO — Toyota Canada Inc. has issued a recall some older model Toyota and Lexus vehicles because of defective airbag inflators that could explode and hurl shrapnel at passengers. The company says the vehicles include certain 2003-2004 Corollas, 2002-2003 Sequoias, 2003 Tundras and 2002-2003 Lexus SCs that had previous been recalled and had the inflators replaced with new Takata-produced inflators […]
  
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• Baloney Meter: does the UN migration compact ‘attempt to influence’ media?

  13-12-2018 18:25
  OTTAWA — “It attempts to influence how our free and independent media report on immigration issues.” — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer on the UN Global Compact for Migration, Dec. 4, 2018 ———————————————————————————————————————&md
  
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• BARRY, Charlie

  13-12-2018 18:10
  Passed away unexpectedly with family by his side at the Sault Area Hospital on Wednesday, December 12, 2018 at the age of 72. Loving husband of the late Arlene for 51 years. Cherished father and best friend of Sherry Payment (Ken), Lorrie Robinson, Charla Whalen (Mike), Lee Ann Gamble (Jeremy), Ashley Vincent, Chuck (Amanda), Owen […]
  
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• Officials: Strasbourg market shooter killed in shootout - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  13-12-2018 18:07
  Officials: Strasbourg market shooter killed in shootout  Sault Ste. Marie Evening NewsParis prosecutor's office, which handles terror cases in France, formally identified the man killed in the eastern French city as 29-year-old Cherif Chekatt, ...
  
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• Toronto market edges lower, U.S. stocks mixed; loonie slips lower

  13-12-2018 17:21
  TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index crept lower in late-morning trading as strength in the consumer staples sector was more than offset by weakness in the health care group, which includes the big marijuana companies. The S&P/TSX composite index was down 7.56 points at 14,775.50. In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up […]
  
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• Supreme Court affirms privacy rights for Canadians who share a computer

  13-12-2018 17:16
  OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada says sharing a computer with someone does not mean giving up privacy rights over the material stored on the machine. In a ruling today, the high court restored the acquittal of Thomas Reeves of Sudbury, Ont., on child pornography charges — even though his common-law spouse had consented […]
  
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• Top stories of 2018: The Mueller investigation - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  13-12-2018 17:06
  Top stories of 2018: The Mueller investigation  Sault Ste. Marie Evening NewsSince May of 2017, former FBI director Robert Mueller has led an investigation into Russian interference during the 2016 election.In 2018, Mueller's investigation ...
  
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• Local Woman’s Experience with Air Canada “A Complete Nightmare.”

  13-12-2018 16:57
  Flying across Canada should be an easy experience for anyone. But, for one local woman, it was a complete nightmare. Michele Jarvis, of Iron Bridge, had a less-than-ideal experience with Air Canada this past summer when she was scheduled to fly to Kelowna, B.C. to visit her parents in August. Jarvis, who has physical handicaps […]
  
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• City Services Holiday Information saultstemarie.ca/Newsroom/Decem… https://t.co/7bjOwA1BD5

  13-12-2018 16:34 via twitter.com
  
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• Supreme Court won’t hear appeal from Quebec judge over hijab disciplinary probe

  13-12-2018 16:31
  OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada says it won’t hear the case of a Quebec judge who tried to oblige a woman to remove her hijab in court and was subsequently reported to the provincial judicial council. Quebec court Judge Eliana Marengo had sought to challenge the legitimacy of the probe by the body that oversees the conduct of […]
  
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• Supreme Court upholds feds’ right to reargue facts in assisted-dying case

  13-12-2018 16:23
  OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear a severely ill woman’s appeal of a British Columbia court ruling that found the federal government could reargue the findings of fact used by the top court to overturn a ban on assisted dying. Julia Lamb and the B.C. Civil Liberties Association are spearheading a lawsuit […]
  
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• Divorce can result in battles over efforts to alter spousal agreements

  13-12-2018 16:00
  TORONTO — A battle between Rudy Giuliani and one of his ex-wives has cast a spotlight on an issue affecting a growing number of Canadians. The former New York City mayor’s efforts to cut spousal support to one of his ex-wives because his income shrunk this year has sparked some interest among older divorcees facing similar battles, says […]
  
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• Students Needed for Experience North

  13-12-2018 14:30
  Do you want to gain experience and make a difference in Northern Ontario? For the sixth year in a row, Northern Policy Institute is looking for students to join our team this summer. Experience North, Northern Policy Institute’s summer placement program, builds capacity through experience as placements learn first-hand about the cut and thrust of […]
  
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• Tommy Chong says Canada’s weed legalization has kept ‘underground market alive’

  13-12-2018 14:00
  TORONTO — Tommy Chong has a pass, man. While some Canadians who use marijuana or work in the cannabis industry have been given a hard time at the U.S.-Canada border lately, the famed Edmonton-born stoner who lives in Los Angeles isn’t worried. “I’ve got the Cheech and Chong pass,” the beloved comedy star of the “Cheech […]
  
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• Soprano Gartshore returns from cancer treatment

  13-12-2018 14:00 via saultstar.com
  Sarah Gartshore is recovering from her bout with cancer.A friend from school, Suzanne Kilgore, did not.Kilgore recently died of melanoma.
  The pair reconnected this summer after Kilgore learned Gartshore was being treated for breast cancer. She diagnosed in February.
  “We don’t all get through it,” Gartshore told The Sault Star during a recent telephone interview from her home in La Porte, Ind. “It sounded all positive (for Kilgore). She was doing really well.”But Kil
  
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• Pot stores on agenda at Toronto city council after two municipalities opt out

  13-12-2018 10:00
  TORONTO — Councillors in Toronto are set to debate whether to allow retail pot shops in Canada’s largest city. City staff recommend that councillors allow privately run cannabis stores to operate in Toronto, saying it would “would have the unintended consequence of encouraging the illegal market.” The issue is on the agenda for today’s council […]
  
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• Huawei and 5G: Experts clash on the risk to Canada’s national security

  13-12-2018 10:00
  OTTAWA — Allowing Chinese firm Huawei Technologies to help build Canada’s 5G wireless networks could give Beijing backdoor access to revealing data about Canadians, security analysts warn. But at least one intelligence expert is skeptical the Chinese government would risk the international reputation of a marquee corporate star by making the company hand over such information. As the federal government weighs Huawei’s possible partic
  
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• Official IDs Canadian missing in China as entrepreneur

  13-12-2018 03:59
  TORONTO — A second Canadian man has gone missing in China and is feared detained in what appears to be retaliation for Canada’s arrest of a top executive of telecommunications giant Huawei, Canadian authorities said late Wednesday. Canada’s Global Affairs department identified its missing citizen as Michael Spavor, an entrepreneur who is one of the […]
  
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• Experts struggle with ethics of assisted death for people with mental disorders

  13-12-2018 01:30
  OTTAWA — Experts the federal government charged with looking at whether people suffering only from mental disorders should be eligible for medically assisted death couldn’t even agree on what evidence is relevant to the question, according to reports tabled in Parliament Wednesday. There was more consensus on two other issues: whether mature minors should be eligible […]
  
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• Our Sault Star Santa Fund donors — so far!

  13-12-2018 01:24 via saultstar.com
  Anonymous $100.00
  In memory of Ned and Kay (Katherine) and Paul Ciaschini family and relatives. Linda A. Ciaschini $30.00
  In memory of Mike O’Brien. Love, Your Family $50.00
  In loving memory of Merv Boudah. Season’s Blessing to all. Love from Maryln, Rick and Andrea, Carol and George, Ron and Cindy and their families. $50.00
  We wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a kinder, gentler 2019. Glen and Judy Hall $50.00
  In memory of loved ones – Len and Marlene Reed $50.00
  In lieu of g
  
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• Congress approves $400 billion for farmers, forests, poor - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  13-12-2018 00:55
  Congress approves $400 billion for farmers, forests, poor  Sault Ste. Marie Evening NewsThe House voted 369-47 for the legislation, which sets federal agricultural and food policy for five years, after the Senate approved it 87-13 on Tuesday. It is now ...
  
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• Residents near Canada-U.S. border to be paid for asylum seeker disruption: Ottawa

  13-12-2018 00:36
  OTTAWA — Quebecers living by the Canada-United States border where thousands of migrants have crossed irregularly into the country since 2017 will be eligible for payments of up to $25,000, the federal government announced Wednesday. Life along the previously sleepy Roxham Road — the main entry point for migrants entering the country on foot — has been disturbed, and residents deserve to be compensated, […]
  
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• Council equipped with new tablets

  13-12-2018 00:00 via saultstar.com
  Notice those shiny new tablets city councillors were using at Monday’s council meeting?
  The new Microsoft Surface tablets are replacing four-year-old iPads loaned to city councillors to complete their official duties.
  Malcolm White, the city deputy CAO of corporate services said it’s a standard practice for municipalities, including Sault Ste. Marie, to update its technological systems with each new city council.
  The one-time cost for the new technology for the 2019-2022 council is $
  
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