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Space Oddity by Col. Chris Hadfield from ISS

Northern Ontario Headlines

Mantha’s Notes From the Park

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

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

Manitouwadge Cancer Assistance Group – 2013 Share the Care Walk & BBQ Fundraiser

First Nations

Statement by Minister Zimmer on the passing of Elijah Harper

Statement by Minister Zimmer on the passing of Elijah Harper
David Zimmer, Minister of Aboriginal Affairs, issued the following statement today on the passing of Elijah Harper: “I am saddened to learn of the passing of Elijah Harper. Elijah Harper dedicated his life to public service and advancing First Nations issues — first as band Chief for Red Sucker Lake First Nation, then as a [Read more]

PATHLIGHT: RESPONSE – ABILITY by Annie Wenger-Nabigon

PATHLIGHT:  RESPONSE – ABILITY by Annie Wenger-Nabigon
Originally from the U.S., Annie now enjoys retired life at Pic River First Nation. Annie Wenger-Nabigon, MSW, RSW has been a clinical social worker since 1979 working in mental health, family therapy, and addictions services. She is a doctoral candidate at Laurentian University in Sudbury, ON. Annie also works part-time as a consultant for LYNX, [Read more]

Français

Carol Hughes parle de la culture du « tout m’est dû »

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<

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]

Dorion/Nipigon/Red Rock Twp

Highway Improvements Underway in Northern Ontario

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]

White River/Dubreuilville

Hornepayne Foodies To Have Their Recipes Published

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]
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Manitouwadge/Marathon

MPS’s Youngest Honour Their Mothers

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…

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!

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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/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]

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