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• CLE celebrates another successful year. ow.ly/sT5T30enkL9

  13-08-2017 22:39 via twitter.com
  CLE celebrates another successful year. ow.ly/sT5T30enkL9
  
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• EcoSuperior’s Open Streets returns. ow.ly/TyQ330en8D0

  13-08-2017 17:18 via twitter.com
  EcoSuperior’s Open Streets returns. ow.ly/TyQ330en8D0
  
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• Toronto Goes with Screaming Power

  13-08-2017 16:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  TORONTO – Screaming Power has teamed up with the City of Toronto to provide their Environment and Energy Division its own mobile application to help manage energy and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. This energy management initiative was made possible through Toronto’s Green Market Acceleration Program and Screaming Power’s “Scream Enterprise” Business mobile solution. The Pilot’s goals were to consult with the Division to build a prototype mobile app that
  
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• Northern Manitoba – August 13/17 – Heat Warnings

  13-08-2017 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  THOMPSON – WEATHER – There are heat warnings out across much of Northern Manitoba. The heat will be amplified by smoke from forest fires in the region which could cause health issues for people with respiratory problems.
  Heat Warning in effect for:
  Leaf Rapids
  Lynn Lake
  Pukatawagan
  Flin Flon Cranberry Portage and Grass River Prov. Park
  Snow Lake and Herb Lake Landing
  Nelson House
  South Indian Lake and Amisk Prov. Park
  Split Lake and York Landing
  Thompson Thicket Portage and Pikwitone
  
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• Waste to Energy Pilot Project Planned to Operate Commercial Greenhouse

  13-08-2017 15:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Waste to Energy pilot project in Kuujjuaq will power a commercial greenhouse.
  Kuujjuaq – The waste-to-energy plant and northern commercial greenhouse pilot project, announced as part of the Government of Québec’s 2017-2018 Economic Plan, will be established in Kuujjuaq. A sum of $5 million, spread over three years, will serve to design and build a thermal waste-to-energy processing system then a commercial greenhouse heated with such system.
  “I am pleased to confirm, h
  
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• Dryden man charged for illegally dumping garbage. ow.ly/BhsC30en4f7

  13-08-2017 15:30 via twitter.com
  Dryden man charged for illegally dumping garbage. ow.ly/BhsC30en4f7
  
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• Parks Canada and Franklin Interim Advisory Committee Announce Next Steps for the Franklin Wrecks

  13-08-2017 15:13 via feedproxy.google.com
  Sir John Franklin
  New Inuit Guardians Program will help protect Franklin wreck sites, support archaeology and visitor experience opportunities
  OTTAWA – The Government of Canada is announcing a new phase of what will be one of the largest and most important underwater archaeological undertakings in Canadian history, to investigate the wrecks of HMS Erebusand HMS Terror. The Minister of Environment and Climate Change and Minister responsible for Parks Canada, Catherine McKenna, and Chai
  
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• PGA TOUR Canada – Round 3 – ATB Financial Classic

  13-08-2017 15:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  Third Round Leaderboard (Bold denotes Canadian):Charlie Bull               65-68-68  (-12)
  Corey Pereira           67-66-68  (-12)
  Johnny Ruiz              67-65-69  (-12)
  Greyson Sigg            69-63*-69 (-12)
  Todd Baek     
  
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• Quilt honours memories of missing and murdered Indigenous women - CBC.ca

  13-08-2017 14:00
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  Quilt honours memories of missing and murdered Indigenous women
  CBC.ca
  Beading, painting, and healing characterize the creation of a quilt being made to honour the memories of missing and murdered Indigenous women. The Ontario Native Women's Association in Thunder Bay, Ont., is hosting the event as part of their Sacred ...
  
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• Quilt honours memories of missing and murdered Indigenous women

  13-08-2017 14:00 via cbc.ca
  Beading, painting, and healing characterize the creation of a quilt being made to honour the memories of missing and murdered Indigenous women.
  
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• Darknet Drug Purchasers Seek Opioids

  13-08-2017 11:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Drug dealers and customers on the Darknet
  Opioid Crisis Online with Dealers
  MONTREAL – When drug users go online for the first time to buy opioids, they aren’t looking for the widest selection or the best prices for their illicit purchases, a new study suggests.
  Researchers found that first-time drug buyers who visited one marketplace on the “darknet” cared only about finding trustworthy sellers — those who would deliver what they promised and keep the buyers’
  
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• Eleventh-hour information sharing tactics must stop – Regional Grand Chief Pelletier

  13-08-2017 06:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  THUNDER BAY – In response to the “Regional Indigenous Information Sessions” hosted by Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) outlining new polices that will significantly impact Northwestern Ontario First Nations, a coalition of First Nations Chiefs has come together to voice their outrage and concerns over a lack of meaningful consultation and accommodation by the MNRF.
  Chiefs from Robinson Superior Treaty and Treaty #3 territories have repeatedly expressed the need
  
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• Forest Fire Situation Update: Northwest Region – August 12, 2017

  13-08-2017 03:23 via feedproxy.google.com
   
  A wild fire near the northern community of Nibinamik First Nation has forced an evacuation – Image supplied by a reader.
  Nibinamik first Nation Being Evacuated
  THUNDER BAY – The community of Nibinamik First Nation is being evacuated due to a forest fire nearby. The problems for the community have been greater due to the power plant being out of service. The decision has been made today to evacuate to Kaspuskasing.
  Smoke near Nibinamik First Nation
  There were 6 new fires c
  
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