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• Fireworks competition seeks backers

  22-12-2018 22:48
  Mark Varrin wants to put more bang in Sault Ste. Marie winters.The Phatboy Fireworks partner is the manager of a planed international fireworks competition to be held on Whitefish Island in late February.Varrin wants to raise at least $22,000 for a minimum one night show featuring Team Finland, winner of competitions Cascades of Fire in Niagara Falls and Stars and Thunder in Timmins earlier this year. Three nights would be even better with a week the maximum his debut event would run starting Fe
  
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• Canada to embark on campaign to win release of citizens

  22-12-2018 18:09
  TORONTO — Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said Saturday that Canada will embark on a campaign to win the release of two citizens detained by China in apparent retaliation for the arrest of a top Chinese tech executive. Freeland said on a conference call with reporters that the arrests constitute a worrying precedent that has […]
  
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• Millroy: The Oath Issue

  22-12-2018 16:44
  A couple of weeks back the Ontario government said it was looking into rules requiring all municipal councillors to pledge allegiance to the Queen. The issue arose in Hearst where indigenous councillor-elect Gaetan Baillargeon said he was forced to vacate the seat he recently won in a general election because he wouldn’t take the oath. […]
  
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• Thunderbirds win final game of 2018

  22-12-2018 16:04
  After dropping a 4-2 decision to the Rayside Balfour Canadians last Saturday night at the John Rhodes Community Centre, the Soo Thunderbirds were looking to get back on the winning track on Friday night as they were in Espanola to take on the Express. Friday night’s game also marked the Thunderbirds final game before the […]
  
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• Canada’s annual snap-shot of wireless prices shows they’re lower but still high

  22-12-2018 16:00
  TORONTO — An annual snap-shot of telecom services, released Friday, shows a year-over-year decline in Canadian wireless prices but, as usual, concludes that most G-7 countries had less expensive packages. “While progress is being made, prices in Canada remain expensive compared to other nations,” the department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, which commissioned the study, said in a statement. For example, […]
  
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• Hele-Cardinal invited to address college grads

  22-12-2018 14:55
  A Sault College graduate who was recently recognized with a provincial award is invited to speak at a spring convocation at the Sault Ste. Marie post-secondary institution.Colleen Hele-Cardinal was one of eight recipients of Premier’s Awards for College Graduates this fall.She graduated from Sault College’s native community worker-addictions counsellor in 2002.President Ron Common called the honour for Cardinal “well deserved.
  “She dedicated her whole life as a human righ
  
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• Lotto Max ticket wins $250,000

  22-12-2018 14:42
  A Lotto Max ticket sold in the Sault Ste. Marie area shared a $1 million Maxmillions prize.The ticket holder will take home $250,000 from last Friday’s draw, Ontario Lottery and Gaming says.A ticket purchased in Guelph won the $60-million jackpot.
  
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• Jackpot Ticket Sold In Guelph, Plus a Big Winner In The Sault!

  22-12-2018 14:21
  Ontario players check your tickets! The $60 million LOTTO MAX jackpot winning ticket from the Friday, December 21, 2018 draw was sold in Guelph. Last night’s draw produced some nice wins across the province: –        Eight MAXMILLIONS tickets, worth $1,000,000 each, were sold in Georgetown, Hamilton, London (2), Ottawa, Toronto (2) and Woodbridge. –        Six […]
  
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• The world is set to light up Sault Ste. Marie - Wawa-news.com

  22-12-2018 14:17 via wawa-news.com
  The world is set to light up Sault Ste. Marie  Wawa-news.comBatchewana First Nation Chief and Council provided approval to the International Fireworks Committee to use Whitefish Island from February 18 to February 24, ...
  
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• Cedarville routs Pickford in EUPC boys basketball - Sports - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  22-12-2018 06:59 via sooeveningnews.com
  Cedarville routs Pickford in EUPC boys basketball - Sports  Sault Ste. Marie Evening NewsPICKFORD — Cedarville is taking some momemtum into the holiday break. The Trojans routed the Pickford Panthers 84-40 in an Eastern UP Conference boys ...
  
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• Cedarville routs Pickford in EUPC boys basketball - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  22-12-2018 06:59 via sooeveningnews.com
  Cedarville routs Pickford in EUPC boys basketball  Sault Ste. Marie Evening NewsPICKFORD — Cedarville is taking some momemtum into the holiday break. The Trojans routed the Pickford Panthers 84-40 in an Eastern UP Conference boys ...
  
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• Shutdown begins as Congress adjourns without deal - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  22-12-2018 01:45 via sooeveningnews.com
  Shutdown begins as Congress adjourns without deal  Sault Ste. Marie Evening NewsThe gridlock blocks money for nine of 15 Cabinet-level departments and dozens of agencies, including the departments of Homeland Security, Transportation, ...
  
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• ‘I’m really overjoyed’

  22-12-2018 01:08
  A big item on Brunella Gagliardi’s Christmas wish list may very well be delivered — possibly even before the big day.
  As Sault Star Santa Fund enters its home stretch, it appears the odds of the Christmas Cheer fundraiser hitting its target are becoming more solid by the day.
  Gagliardi’s husband, Joe, certainly thinks so. He’s been helping the charity’s co-ordinator tally up donations.
  “He said, ‘You’re going to reach the $100,000 this year,’
  
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