Some of the readers of this column may be wondering why I haven’t written in a long time. There is a short answer and a long answer. For now – the short answer. What happened? What happens in life, to everyone, sooner or later, is loss. For me – and our family – the [Read more]
MARATHON, ON – Students are Margaret Twomey Public School recently had the opportunity to activate their Superior-Greenstone District School Board Google accounts and learn all about the powerful learning tools they can access with Google Apps for Education. Students in Mr. Skworchinski’s [Read more]
MANITOUWADGE, ON – WOW! Each year one of our students, Miah Wheadon, and her family do an awesome job of making sure our students and staff are educated about epilepsy which, unfortunately affects Miah herself. On Epilepsy Awareness Day 2016, everyone at Manitouwadge Public School (MPS) [Read more]
Investment Supports Business Development and Growth in the Superior East Region WAWA, ON – Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario (FedNor) – APRIL 28, 2016, Terry Sheehan, Member of Parliament for Sault Ste. Marie, on behalf of the Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of [Read more]
MARATHON, ON – May 2nd, the Marathon area communities will begin our seven week Community Challenge to increase our levels of daily physical activity. There has been a tremendous response from area residents with 48 teams (over 375 participants) participating, which makes up over 10% of our [Read more]
Kevin Hart has been a busy man over the last couple of years. Since 2014, the diminutive comedian has appeared in ten movies while also performing his stand up comedy routine across the world. In 2014, Hart starred alongside Ice Cube in “Ride Along”, a comedy portraying him as a hapless [Read more]
Province Increasing Port Capacity, Strengthening Local Economy Ontario is helping Thunder Bay Port Authority expand its dock-side operations and construct a new storage facility to handle more cargo. With an investment of $1 million through the province’s Northern Ontario Heritage Fund [Read more]
THUNDER BAY, ON – Second-year students in the Native Child & Family Services program at Confederation College responded to the racism in the community with a “Stand Up” silent protest event, which took place today. This is the second year this event has been organized by students. In [Read more]
ATTAWAPISKAT, ON – Since the declaration of emergency by the Attawapiskat First Nation, the Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service (NAPS) has and continues to respond to calls of emergency in addition to regular calls for service. Mental Health calls for service are being addressed with appropriate [Read more]
WAWA, ON – On Thursday April 14, 2016 at approximately 5:38 pm officers from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Superior East Wawa Detachment were advised of a theft. The incident took place at a local Wawa business. Taken was a red Road Vault 450 litres fuel tank model # 264611 and a 12v heavy [Read more]
It has been an emotional week at Queen’s Park with families and concerned Ontarians descending on the legislature to condemn the Liberal government’s many reckless actions. This past Tuesday, families of children with Autism Spectrum disorder filled the legislature during question period. New [Read more]
This past week, the NDP has been holding the Liberal government’s feet to the fire on a number of issues. After promising better costs for seniors, it become clear that the Liberal government’s budget would nearly double the deductible on prescriptions for seniors and cause higher co-payments [Read more]
Movie lovers will be delighted to learn that some of the biggest movies of the year, actually some of the biggest movies ever, will be releasing over the next few weeks. Not a day goes by where we don’t get asked about “The Revenant”, the big budget adventure film which landed Leonardo [Read more]
FONOM Urging Members to Support Ontario Farmers KAPUSKASING, ON ‐ The Federation of Northern Ontario Municipalities (FONOM) is encouraging its membership to use their influence within their communities to support and promote Ontario farmers by purchasing French’s ketchup. In 2015, French’s [Read more]
MANTIOUWADGE, ON – This week, Manitouwadge Public School (MPS) Grade 7 and 8 students paired up with students from Our Lady of Lourdes School (OLOL) and reluctantly left their textbooks behind to spend the day enjoying their Annual Curling Bonspiel. The young curlers have been preparing [Read more]
