Northern Ontario Headlines
Mantha’s Notes From the Park
I was pleased to receive news early this week that 2013 Chi-Cheemaun Ferry service will begin on Friday, May 17, with the 8:50 am scheduled departure from Tobermory. This is a big win for our communities as the Chi-Cheemaun not only provides an essential transportation link for travel, but also supports our tourism and logistics
Northwest Region Forest Fire Situation
May 17, 2013 – 16:30 There were 16 new forest fires reported in the Northwest Region between May 13 and May 17. All of these new fires were human-caused and were the result of grass or brush burning which then escaped into wildfires, or sparked by trees over power lines in windy conditions. The fires
- Hornepayne Foodies To Have Their Recipes Published
- MPS’s Youngest Honour Their Mothers
- MPP Michael Mantha Questions MOL RE: Responsibility in Algo Mall Collapse (Video)
- Statement by Minister Zimmer on the passing of Elijah Harper
- “Even friends with deep pockets can’t remove the stink of entitlement” Says Hughes
- Amélirations routières en cours dans le Nord de l’Ontario
- Highway Improvements Underway in Northern Ontario
- MNR UPDATE: Flood Warning – White River Watershed
- MONEY’$ WORTH: Flexibility Through Discretionary Portfolio Management
- Teacher Collaboration Leads to High Secondary Student Achievement
- TALES FROM THE TRAILS: Soon the long weekend.
- WAWA OPP to Offer Seniors Identity Fraud Presentation As Part of Police Week
- UPDATE – FATALITY AT WESDOME GOLD MINE – Deceased Identified
- DUBREUILVILLE Agenda May 16 mai Ordre du Jour
- CROSSOVER INSIDER – Tyler’s BACK! Scratch & Win Big WINNER, NEW Release Trailers & Gaming News…
- NOTICE TO RESIDENTS OF TERRACE BAY
First Nations
Statement by Minister Zimmer on the passing of Elijah Harper
PATHLIGHT: RESPONSE – ABILITY by Annie Wenger-Nabigon
Français
Carol Hughes parle de la culture du « tout m’est dû »
Même les amis bien nantis ne parviennent pas à faire disparaître la culture du « tout m’est dû ». « Nous devons éliminer la corruption et démolir le mur du silence qui lui permet de s’implanter. Il faut absolument remplacer la culture du “tout m’est dû” par la culture de la responsabilité. » Voilà ce que déclarait Stephen Harper [Read more]
Avertissement de crue – Bassin versant de la rivière White<
Le ministère des Richesses naturelles (MRN) - district de Wawa, rappelle aux résidents de la région que l’avertissement de crue concernant le bassin versant de la rivière White demeure en vigueur. La rivière et le lac White sont en crue et d’autres crues sont imminentes. Le lac White a dépassé son niveau le plus élevé et [Read more]
Terrace Bay/Schreiber/ Rossport
Highway Improvements Underway in Northern Ontario
Ontario Government Creating Jobs, Building a Stronger Economy Ontario is making major improvements to the province’s highways, roads and bridges, which is supporting more than 20,000 construction jobs across the province and making travel easier for families and [Read more]- NOTICE TO RESIDENTS OF TERRACE BAY
- Terrace Bay Lighthouse and Falls Open for the Season
- Terrace Bay Begins Surveying About Housing
- Students Continue Brick by Brick Fundraising Plans at SNCDSB Leadership Day
- Author Helps Schreiber Public Library Celebrate Canadian Children’s Book Week
- WINTER STORM CREATES HAZARDOUS ROAD CONDITIONS IN AREAS OF THE NORTH WEST REGION
- WINTER STORM WARNING – Nipigon to Marathon
More from Terrace Bay/Schreiber/ Rossport
Dorion/Nipigon/Red Rock Twp
Highway Improvements Underway in Northern Ontario
Ontario Government Creating Jobs, Building a Stronger Economy Ontario is making major improvements to the province’s highways, roads and bridges, which is supporting more than 20,000 construction jobs across the province and making travel easier for families and businesses. Key highway improvements in Northern Ontario include: Expanding Highway 11-17 between Thunder Bay and Nipigon Expanding [Read more]
- Students Continue Brick by Brick Fundraising Plans at SNCDSB Leadership Day
- SGDSB Student Appointed to Minister’s Student Advisory Council
- St. Hillary Students Treat Grandparents and Seniors To Tea
- Ice Age Mammals Star In New Exhibition At New Red Rock Marina Centre
- MOTOR VEHICLE COLLISION RESULTS IN IMPAIRED CHARGE
More from Dorion/Nipigon/Red Rock Twp
White River/Dubreuilville
Hornepayne Foodies To Have Their Recipes Published
HORNEPAYNE, ON – The Hornepayne Community Garden Project is looking for local recipes to go into an end of the season cookbook (From the Garden to the Table). The recipes must promote healthy eating and nutrition & be made up of fresh produce that can come from [Read more]
Manitouwadge/Marathon
MPS’s Youngest Honour Their Mothers
MANITOUWADGE, ON – The littlest people at Manitouwadge Public School were busy little beavers recently preparing a lunch for their special person in honor of Mother’s Day! Students from Junior Kindergarten through Grade 2 had been preparing for days proving that even toilet paper rolls can evolve into beautiful flower arrangements; making [Read more]
CROSSOVER INSIDER – Tyler’s BACK! Scratch & Win Big WINNER, NEW Release Trailers & Gaming News…
TYLER’s BACK! As nice as it is to get away for a vacation, it is always nice to get home- and back into a routine. Having said that, another week means more new releases. There are eight titles to choose from this week, highlighted by an epic adventure starring Hollywood heavyweights Tom Hanks and Halle Berry. Here [Read more]
Snow Doens’t Slow the Share the Care Participants!
MANITOUWADGE, ON- Saturday, May 11th, the Manitouwadge Cancer Assistance Group held their annual Share the Care Walk & BBQ in spite of some VERY unseasonable temperatures. Some great forsight on the part of the MCAG saw the event moved to the Community Clubhouse, to ensure participants would have a place to warm up and enjoy [Read more]
Students Continue Brick by Brick Fundraising Plans at SNCDSB Leadership Day
RED ROCK, ON - Wednesday, April 3, the Superior North Catholic District School Board hosted a Student Leadership Day at St. Hilary School in Red Rock. Each of the board’s nine schools were invited to send three or four Grade 7 and 8 students. The Leadership Day was the second one that the school board [Read more]
Application To CRTC To Move CFNO-fm Radio (Comment Period Extended)
An application to the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) by Dougall Media’s General Manager, Don Caron, to move CFNO-fm Radio Station’s office from its current location in Marathon Ontario, to Thunder Bay Ontario, has been met with much concern by many residents in the Northshore communities served by [Read more]
MPS Students Fundraise For Local Family Which Lost Their Home To Fire
MANITOUWADGE, ON – April 4th, a Manitouwadge family experienced a nightmare that none of us ever wants to face – they lost their home and all of their belongings in a house fire (Click here for the full story). Though Manitouwadge Public School is a small school, the students have proven once again, that it [Read more]
Stillwater Submits Additional Responses to IRs by Marathon Joint Review Panel
During the week of April 29/13, Stillwater Canada Inc. submitted additional responses to some of the information requests (IRs) issued by the Marathon Joint Review Panel last November and December. The additional responses received are outlined below with a link to the posting on the public registry: Response from Stillwater to Information [Read more]
Greenstone
Wawa’s Hannah Simard & Superior-Greenstone’s Brittanya Henley Selected as National Finalists for Miss Teen Canada 2013 & Miss Universe Canada 2014 Respectively
Release from: MNORCP Cochrane’s Paige Johnson Named 50th Miss North Ontario Regional Canada Pageant SUDBURY, ON – Northern Lights were shining brightly at the Fraser Auditorium of Laurentian University on Saturday May 4, 2013 as 43 of Northern Ontario’s most exceptional young ladies aged 14-23 participated in the Miss North Ontario Regional Canada Pageant [Read more]
GREENSTONE OPP TO HOST PRESCRIPTION DRUG DROP OFF DAY
Province-wide effort to reduce risks associated with leftover medications GREENSTONE, ON – Earlier this month, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) in Greenstone unveiled details of an important province-wide public safety initiative to encourage Ontario residents to dispose of old and unused prescription medication in a secure, environmentally-friendly manner. Police [Read more]
UNDERCOVER PROJECT NETS $623,000 IN DRUGS
OPP Drug Investigation results in numerous charges against 14 individuals HEARST, ON - The Ontario Provincial Police Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau, South Porcupine Drug Unit supported by the OPP Hearst Detachment have charged 14 individuals with drug related offences following arrests conducted in the Town of Hearst on Wednesday April 24, 2013. The charges stem from [Read more]
Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. Announces Planned Departure of CSO
Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. Announces Planned Departure of Steven Raguz, Chief Strategy Officer CLEVELAND /PRNewswire/ – Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. (NYSE: CLF) (Paris: CLF) today announced that Steven Raguz, executive vice president, corporate strategy and communications & chief strategy officer, will leave the Company effective May 1, 2013. Mr. [Read more]
WINTER STORM CREATES HAZARDOUS ROAD CONDITIONS IN AREAS OF THE NORTH WEST REGION
THUNDER BAY, ON – The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is reminding motorists to take extra precautions to ensure safety while travelling on roadways within the North West Region. Environment Canada has issued a winter storm warning for the central area of the region including: Schreiber, Longlac, Thunder Bay, Shabaqua and Atikokan . A large low [Read more]
EDUCATION/School News
MPS’s Youngest Honour Their Mothers
MANITOUWADGE, ON – The littlest people at Manitouwadge Public School were busy little beavers recently preparing a lunch for their special person in honor of Mother’s Day! Students from Junior Kindergarten through Grade 2 had been preparing for days proving that even toilet paper rolls can evolve into beautiful [Read more]
Teacher Collaboration Leads to High Secondary Student Achievement
SAULT STE. MARIE, ON – The Board of Trustees of the Huron-Superior Catholic District School Board (HSCDSB) learned at its meeting on Wednesday about the work of secondary staff that has resulted in positive achievement outcomes for secondary students. Over the past three years, the Secondary Program Team which is [Read more]
Students Continue Brick by Brick Fundraising Plans at SNCDSB Leadership Day
RED ROCK, ON - Wednesday, April 3, the Superior North Catholic District School Board hosted a Student Leadership Day at St. Hilary School in Red Rock. Each of the board’s nine schools were invited to send three or four Grade 7 and 8 students. The Leadership Day was the second one that the school board [Read more]
SGDSB Student Appointed to Minister’s Student Advisory Council
MARATHON, ON – Jennifer Dubois, a student of Nipigon-Red Rock District High School takes getting involved very seriously and her interest in giving student’s a voice was seriously considered in the office of the Minister of Education, Liz Sandals. Dubois is among 63 students from across the province named to serve on [Read more]
St. Hillary Students Treat Grandparents and Seniors To Tea
RED ROCK, ON – May 1st St. Hilary hosted its Annual Grandparents/Seniors Tea organized by members of the St. Hilary School Council. This event is a wonderful time to honour our grandparents and seniors for the wonderful people they are. St. Hilary students from Junior Kindergarten to Grade 6 entertained with [Read more]
Law Enforcement
MPP Michael Mantha Questions MOL RE: Responsibility in Algo Mall Collapse (Video)
QUEEN’S PARK, ON – Algoma-Manitoulin MPP Michael Mantha questions the Minister of Labour regarding responsibility for the Algo Mall Collapse and inquiry that has followed. [Read more]
WAWA OPP to Offer Seniors Identity Fraud Presentation As Part of Police Week
POLICE WEEK – May 12 – 18, 2013 SUPERIOR EAST, ON- This week, May 12 – 18 is Police Week across Ontario and the theme is “Walk the Digital Beat – a new Era of Engagement”. The aim is to increase community awareness and recognition of policing services and strengthening partnerships between police and the [Read more]
GREENSTONE OPP TO HOST PRESCRIPTION DRUG DROP OFF DAY
Province-wide effort to reduce risks associated with leftover medications GREENSTONE, ON – Earlier this month, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) in Greenstone unveiled details of an important province-wide public safety initiative to encourage Ontario residents to dispose of old and unused prescription medication in a secure, environmentally-friendly manner. Police in communities across Ontario recognize [Read more]
MOTOR VEHICLE COLLISION RESULTS IN IMPAIRED CHARGE
NIPIGON, ON - May 2, 2013 at approximately 3:25 a.m. officers of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Nipigon Detachment investigated a motor vehicle collision at Highway 17 west of Rossport, Ontario, Township of Lahontan. A vehicle travelling west bound attempted to pass a TWD Roads Management snow plow, struck the snow plow and then the guard [Read more]
MARATHON/MTWDGE OPP TRAFFIC STOP LEADS TO ARREST
MARATHON ON - Sunday April 28, 2013 at approximately 10:15 pm, an officer from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Marathon/Manitouwadge detachment was conducting radar enforcement on Highway 17 near Highway 614 in Bomby Township. The officer observed a black sedan travelling at a high rate of speed. During the traffic stop, the officer was informed through [Read more]
