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• Algoma University Amendment Act, 2019 Passes Second Reading

  03-04-2019 23:53
  Queen’s Park – On March 21, the Legislative Assembly of Ontario completed second reading of Bill 79, the Algoma University Amendment Act, 2019. Introduced by Sault Ste. Marie MPP Ross Romano back on March 6, Bill 79, if passed, would allow Algoma University to begin the process of granting future undergraduate and post-graduate degrees. “Algoma’s curriculum […]
  
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• Wanted Wednesday: Rachelle Marie Daynard

  03-04-2019 23:46
  Crime Stoppers in partnership with the Sault Ste. Marie Police Service are seeking tips regarding the whereabouts of Rachelle Marie Daynard, 40, who is wanted for: CC 766(1) SURETY REVOCATION CC 733.1(1) BREACH OF PROBATION X 3 CC 145(5)(B) FAIL TO APPEAR COURT X 2 CC 145(2)(A) FAIL TO APPEAR PRINTS CC 145(3) BREACH OF […]
  
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• Face recognition researcher fights Amazon over biased AI - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  03-04-2019 23:45
  Face recognition researcher fights Amazon over biased AI  Sault Ste. Marie Evening NewsJoy Buolamwini's tests on software created by brand-name tech firms such as Amazon uncovered much higher error rates in classifying the gender of ...
  
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• Sault High girls basketball awards - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  03-04-2019 23:15
  Sault High girls basketball awards  Sault Ste. Marie Evening NewsHide caption. The Sault High girls basketball awards banquet was held this past week. Award winners included, from left to right: Emily McLean (JV MVP), ...
  
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• Waterfront Holland hosting design meetings, presentations - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  03-04-2019 23:12
  Waterfront Holland hosting design meetings, presentations  Sault Ste. Marie Evening NewsHOLLAND — The Waterfront Holland initiative is hosting two design charrettes in April and May.A charrette (meaning "chariot" in French) is a meeting in which ...
  
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• Preston resigns as township clerk - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  03-04-2019 23:12
  Preston resigns as township clerk  Sault Ste. Marie Evening NewsAfter 26 years in office, Algansee Township Clerk Suzanne Preston announced her resignation Monday night. “I've enjoyed being township clerk, but I need to ...
  
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• Freeland say lifting U.S. tariffs is part of ratification of the new NAFTA

  03-04-2019 22:23
  OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland is linking the lifting of “absurd” U.S. tariffs on Canadian and Mexican steel to the ratification of the new North American free-trade deal. Dealing with the tariffs — imposed by President Donald Trump under a controversial national-security provision of U.S. law — is a key part of the ratification process, […]
  
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• Health-care changes ‘frightening’: Health coalition

  03-04-2019 22:16 via saultstar.com
  The public is being kept in the dark about changes coming to Ontario health care — and many will be “surprised and shocked” when they learn the truth, contends a Sault Ste. Marie public health advocacy group.
  Sault Ste. Marie Health Coalition says of chief concern is Bill 74, which folds multiple health agencies, including the North East Local Health Integration Network or NE LHIN, into one super-agency.
  “It’s going to, I believe, throw health care into chaos and di
  
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• Love Letters lends ‘intimate, powerful night of theatre’: Review

  03-04-2019 21:35 via saultstar.com
  Sault Ste. Marie’s newest dinner theatre company is whetting our appetite for quality entertainment with a theatre piece that is seasoned with nostalgic poignancy and endearing and enduring elegance.
  Algoma Repertory Theatre makes its debut this week with the bittersweet charmer, Love Letters, by A. R. Gurney, first staged back in 1988.
  The production, being presented at Grand Gardens Downtown on Dennis Street, is a two-hander featuring real-life marrieds Sandra Forsell and Marc Beaudette,
  
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• Sheehan supports PM's decision to oust Wilson-Raybould, Philpott

  03-04-2019 21:31 via saultstar.com
  Sault MP Terry Sheehan said he supports the Prime Minister’s decision to toss two MP’s from caucus after trust had broken down to levels that cannot be repaired.
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott that they have been kicked out of the Liberal caucus late Tuesday. Neither will be able to carry the Liberal banner in the October federal election.
  The turfing is the result of a continuing saga that has rocked the Liberal government in recent weeks,
  
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• EUP Citizens’ Advisory Council to meet April 15 - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  03-04-2019 21:30
  EUP Citizens’ Advisory Council to meet April 15  Sault Ste. Marie Evening NewsDeer camp survey results, a resolution in support of a youth bear hunt and a presentation on the DNR-U.S. Forest *Service* joint Good Neighbor Authority initiative ...
  
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• LSSU exploring new athletic facility, additional sports - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  03-04-2019 21:11
  LSSU exploring new athletic facility, additional sports  Sault Ste. Marie Evening NewsLake Superior State University administrators have submitted a funding proposal to the state of Michigan which could help them construct a new indoor athletic ...
  
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• Book review: Wearing red to a wedding - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  03-04-2019 21:11
  Book review: Wearing red to a wedding  Sault Ste. Marie Evening News“The Wedding Guest” by Jonathan Kellerman, (Ballentine Books, 368 pages, $28.99) Never crash a wedding and never do it in a Frendi red dress. And never do ...
  
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• UKs May holds constructive Brexit talks with Labour - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  03-04-2019 20:47
  UKs May holds constructive Brexit talks with Labour  Sault Ste. Marie Evening NewsIn an about-face that left pro-Brexit members of May's Conservative Party howling with outrage, Prime Minister Theresa May sought to forge an agreement with ...
  
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• Precarious Work private member's bill begins hearings

  03-04-2019 20:27 via saultstar.com
  A federal government standing committee has launched its hearings on Sault MP Terry Sheehan’s precarious work motion.
  Expert testimony from a University of Ottawa law professor, an economist with the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada and the president of Pearson Centre for Progressive Policy was received by the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and Status of Persons with Disabilities.
  The committee also heard from Sault Ste. Marie resident Ally
  
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• Susan Sparks: Pray like a telemarketer - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  03-04-2019 20:12
  Susan Sparks: Pray like a telemarketer  Sault Ste. Marie Evening NewsTell me if this sounds familiar: You come home at the end of a long day, hoping for a little peace and quiet. You change into some comfy clothes, click on Netflix, ...
  
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• Don't sleep on these college scholarships - Lifestyle - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  03-04-2019 20:12
  Don't sleep on these college scholarships - Lifestyle  Sault Ste. Marie Evening NewsBy far, the most lucrative source of scholarship funding for college is the colleges themselves. Having said that, however, there are thousands of scholarships ...
  
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• No music hits wrong note in barbershop show

  03-04-2019 19:55 via saultstar.com
  The music’s over for Bill Bailey.The barbershop singer’s life is just too busy. He decides something has to go and music, which he’s loved for years, is picked to pitch even though his wife, Brenda, supports his singing.Heaven has other plans, dispatching an angel, Charlie, to point out how Bailey will miss singing.You Don’t Know Me … Maybe Heaven Can Help, the 55th annual show presented by Northland Barbershop Chorus, is based on It’s a Wonderful Life, the 1
  
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• NATO chief tells Congress of serious alliance divisions - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  03-04-2019 19:55
  NATO chief tells Congress of serious alliance divisions  Sault Ste. Marie Evening News"We have to be frank," Jens Stoltenberg said before a joint meeting of Congress. "Questions are being asked on both sides of the Atlantic about the strength of ...
  
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• Walk for Warmth set for Saturday in Sault - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  03-04-2019 19:09
  Walk for Warmth set for Saturday in Sault  Sault Ste. Marie Evening NewsAn Eastern Upper Peninsula organization hopes area residents are willing to take a stroll through downtown Sault Ste. Marie this weekend and raise money for ...
  
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• SooBlaster Undergoes Re-Branding

  03-04-2019 19:03
  Das Kumar the owner of SooBlaster, says the downtown bar and arcade is re-branding with new management in place for May. The popular venue for gaming and entertainment will re-brand as BlaSter Restaurant  Bar and Arcade this May a release said Wednesday. The state of the art downtown location has recently reinvested in its playground […]
  
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• Sault improv team competes

  03-04-2019 19:01 via saultstar.com
  Students from a French Catholic school in Sault Ste. Marie will participate in a provincial improvisation tournament.Grade 7 and 8 students from Notre-Dame-du-Sault will compete at We IMPROvise in North Bay on Thursday, a release says.More than 30 Conseil scolaire catholique du Nouvel-Ontario students, from Grades 7 to 12 from three schools, participated in a We IMPROvise tournament in Wawa on Tuesday.
  
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• Group of doctors calls for stronger gun control laws across country

  03-04-2019 18:46
  TORONTO — A group representing doctors and other health-care workers pushing for stronger gun laws was holding rallies across the country on Wednesday, calling for a national ban on private ownership of handguns and assault rifles. Canadian Doctors for Protection from Guns was holding events in cities that included Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and St. John’s, and also planned discussion forums […]
  
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• Trudeau acknowledges SNC dispute, but some young would-be MPs turn backs on PM

  03-04-2019 18:39
  OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau is acknowledging the internal strife roiling his Liberal government, telling a group of young women that politics is often about reconciling opposite perspectives and differences of opinion. But about 48 of the young would-be MPs taking part in the Daughters of the Vote event on the floor of the House of Commons […]
  
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• TAYLOR, James Robert “Bob”

  03-04-2019 18:20
  Passed away peacefully at the Sault Area Hospital on Monday, April 1, 2019 at the age of 83. Dear father of Laura Mark (Dave), Alison Taylor (Mark), Donald Taylor (Ravi) and Rebecca Taylor. Proud grandpa of Gaëtanne (Carlos), Aaron (Ashley), Brittany, Sarah and Arian; great-grandfather of Kai. Predeceased by his parents James Gordon Taylor and […]
  
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• House Judiciary panel approves subpoenas for Mueller report - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  03-04-2019 17:33
  House Judiciary panel approves subpoenas for Mueller report  Sault Ste. Marie Evening NewsThe committee voted 24-17 to give Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., permission to issue subpoenas to the Justice Department for the final report, ...
  
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• CORVETTI, Ella Irene (nee Bruni)

  03-04-2019 17:15
  In the presence of the Lord, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, March 26, 2019 at the age of 94 in Unionville at Bethany Lodge. Predeceased by her husband Len in 2011. Dear mother of Patrick (Lynne), Philip (Jane) and the late James and John. Grandmother of Todd (Lesley), Kevin (Emily), Mark and Sean (Anna). Great […]
  
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  03-04-2019 17:09 via saultstar.com
  Telethon tops $100,000Easter Seals Telethon raised more than $108,000 for Sault Ste. Marie youth with physical disabilities.The fundraiser, held last Sunday, was broadcast on Shaw Cable.“As a parent of an Easter Seals child, I can assure you that your donation does help make a difference in the lives of children with physical disabilities,” said co-host Jane Martynuck in a release.Shannon Gowans, Scott MacDonald Tessa Vecchio also hosted the telethon.Drug charges laid
  City police hav
  
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• CHALUT, Albertine (Abbie) Margaret

  03-04-2019 17:08
  Sadly, we announce the passing of Abbie Chalut on Monday February 25, 2019, in her 97th year, surrounded by her family. Abbie is predeceased by her parents Robert and Edith Barker and her sister Glenna Yuskiw (Mike). Abbie and her husband Leonard (deceased), raised their family in Sault Ste. Marie. She spent the last four years […]
  
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• Telethon tops $105,000

  03-04-2019 16:54 via saultstar.com
  Easter Seals Telethon raised more than $108,000 for Sault Ste. Marie youth with physical disabilities.The fundraiser, held last Sunday, was broadcast on Shaw Cable.“As a parent of an Easter Seals child, I can assure you that your donation does help make a difference in the lives of children with physical disabilities,” said co-host Jane Martynuck in a release.Shannon Gowans, Scott MacDonald Tessa Vecchio also hosted the telethon.
  
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• Best friends help collision victim

  03-04-2019 16:35 via saultstar.com
  Brandon Jourdin had “a bad feeling” when he drove by a collision scene last fall.He was right. A transport collided with a vehicle on Carmen’s Way on Oct. 27.Jourdin and his best friend of 16 years, Aaron Gridzak, were driving downtown in the early morning to pick up a friend.He initially drove through the intersection of Carmen’s Way and Conmee Avenue, but Jourdin decided to go back.The pair spoke with two transport drivers, one who was involved in the crash and the seco
  
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• Labourers Needed

  03-04-2019 16:34
  Employment Solutions, in partnership with Total Personnel Solutions, will be hosting a Job Fair on Thursday, April 4 from 11 am to 2pm. The job fair will be held at Employment Solutions, on the 4th floor of Station Tower at 421 Bay Street. Total Personnel Solutions (TPS) takes the time to learn and understand the […]
  
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• Raising A Flag For Autism

  03-04-2019 16:09
  In light of World Autism Awareness Tuesday, Autism Ontario and City Officials welcomed the public to city hall as they honoured the day with a flag raising.
  
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• Jennie Geisler: In April, lemons taste like heaven - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  03-04-2019 16:08
  Jennie Geisler: In April, lemons taste like heaven  Sault Ste. Marie Evening NewsThere's just something about a lemon. The look, the smell, the taste, the versatility: Brightening dull soups, bringing out the flavor in fish, spiking a sauce, soaring ...
  
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• Wawa gold mine production jumps

  03-04-2019 15:13 via saultstar.com
  Strong production at Wesdome’s Wawa-area mine helped drive a first strong quarter for the Toronto-based company.Eagle River and Mishi sites produced 19,010 ounces of gold in the first three months of 2019. That’s up from 17,948 ounces produced in January to March 2018.Grams per tonne jumped by a third from 12 to 18.5 at Eagle River and 1.8 to 2.2 at Mishi, a release says.Revenue from gold sales climbed from $26.2 million to $32.5 million.Average price per ounce increased from $1,698
  
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• New Artest documentary shows extensive Palace brawl footage - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  03-04-2019 15:07
  New Artest documentary shows extensive Palace brawl footage  Sault Ste. Marie Evening NewsA new documentary about Ron Artest includes an extensive retrospective about the brawl with fans the former NBA star triggered at a game in Detroit.
  
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• Telephone surcharge unchanged - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  03-04-2019 14:46
  Telephone surcharge unchanged  Sault Ste. Marie Evening NewsHILLSDALE — Hillsdale County residents won't see an increase in the 911 surcharge on their phone bills as the Hillsdale County Board of Commissioners ...
  
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• Sliding Into Spring - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  03-04-2019 14:46
  Sliding Into Spring  Sault Ste. Marie Evening NewsHide caption. Bailey Garrett, 6, of Hillsdale slides down the slide at Sandy Beach Tuesday afternoon. Bailey enjoyed the breezy afternoon in the park with her ...
  
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• Ohio would honor national popular vote under proposal - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  03-04-2019 14:46
  Ohio would honor national popular vote under proposal  Sault Ste. Marie Evening NewsOhio's coveted 18 electoral votes would be delivered to the presidential candidate who wins the national popular vote under a proposal making its way toward ...
  
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• Holland Sentinel All-Area Boys Swimming First Team - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  03-04-2019 14:46
  Holland Sentinel All-Area Boys Swimming First Team  Sault Ste. Marie Evening NewsBrant AssinkSCHOOL >> Holland ChristianGRADE >> SeniorWATER WORKS >> Part of state champion medley relay. Finished fourth in 500 and 10th in 200 to ...
  
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• Group floats idea to monitor aquifer - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  03-04-2019 14:46
  Group floats idea to monitor aquifer  Sault Ste. Marie Evening NewsBRYAN, OHIO — Representatives from several counties in the tri-state region met behind closed doors Monday in Bryan County, Ohio to discuss forming a ...
  
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• All workers ‘accounted for’ after tower collapse in Sarnia: Imperial Oil

  03-04-2019 14:01
  SARNIA, Ont. — Imperial Oil says “all workers have been accounted for” after a tower collapsed at its facility in Sarnia, Ont., Tuesday night. In a post on its Facebook page, the company says the tower was out of service at the time of the incident, as it was being prepared for maintenance. It says people […]
  
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• Police say one person killed in fire at assisted living facility in Oakville

  03-04-2019 13:51
  OAKVILLE, Ont. — Police say one person is dead after a fire at an assisted living facility in Oakville, Ont. First responders were called to the Jean and Howard Caine Apartments around 6 p.m. Tuesday. Halton regional police say firefighters managed to keep the fire to a single unit, but the apartment’s lone occupant — […]
  
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• April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  03-04-2019 13:48
  April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month  Sault Ste. Marie Evening NewsLaw enforcement agencies to participate in mobilization period.
  
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• Hudson’s Bay Co. reports Q4 revenue slips lower, comparable store sales fall

  03-04-2019 13:47
  TORONTO — Hudson’s Bay Co. reported its fourth-quarter revenue slipped to $2.89 billion, down from $3.05 billion a year earlier when the quarter included an extra week. Excluding the extra week, revenue in the quarter ended Feb. 2 was down $47 million or 1.6 per cent compared with a year ago. Overall comparable store sales […]
  
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• Commission split over golf course request - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  03-04-2019 13:30
  Commission split over golf course request  Sault Ste. Marie Evening NewsA request from Benoit Properties International to eliminate the reverter clause and deed restrictions on the old city golf course met with mixed reviews at ...
  
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• Village to seek bids for website overhaul - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  03-04-2019 13:14
  Village to seek bids for website overhaul  Sault Ste. Marie Evening NewsADDISON — Five years ago, the Addison Village Council set in motion the process to have a village website and entered into an agreement with a village ...
  
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• Solar development ordinance gets green light - News - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  03-04-2019 13:14
  Solar development ordinance gets green light - News  Sault Ste. Marie Evening NewsThe leader of a group opposed to the location of a solar-panel development in Mendon Township is spearheading a campaign to have the proposal put before ...
  
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• College Sports: Siena Heights baseball sweeps Grace (Ind.) - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  03-04-2019 13:14
  College Sports: Siena Heights baseball sweeps Grace (Ind.)  Sault Ste. Marie Evening NewsThe Siena Heights baseball team rolled to a sweep of nonconference opponent Grace (Ind.) on Tuesday afternoon, using a big second-inning outburst in the ...
  
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• 'Walk for Warmth' set for Saturday in Sault - News - Sault Ste. Marie Evening News

  03-04-2019 09:00
  'Walk for Warmth' set for Saturday in Sault - News  Sault Ste. Marie Evening NewsAn Eastern Upper Peninsula organization hopes area residents are willing to take a stroll through downtown Sault Ste. Marie this weekend and raise money for ...
  
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