Welcome to Business Beat… Each month Manitouwadge business happenings are announced and an MBA member showcased. Member or not, your input is welcomed! Please contact the Writer at 826-4626/hawberryfields@shaw.ca. Suggestions and constructive criticism are encouraged. Monthly [Read more]
May 25, 2010 2:05 PM Premier McGuinty Welcomes Partnership With Global Pharma Company The world’s largest generic pharmaceutical company is investing $56 million to expand its Stouffville production plant. Ontario is providing a $6.5-million grant to Teva Canada, which will retain 182 [Read more]
FROM/DE:Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau DATE: 21 May 2010 Marihuana and Switchblade Knife Seized in Chapleau Search Warrant (Chapleau, ON) –The Ontario Provincial Police Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau Drug Enforcement Unit and the OPP Superior East Detachment executed a [Read more]
MARATHON LABOUR ADJUSTMENT CENTRE GETS EXTENSION Gravelle announces more help for laid-off workers The Ontario government is providing more support to help laid-off workers in Northwestern Ontario. An additional investment of $61,841 by the Ontario government will keep the Marathon Labour [Read more]
Michael Gravelle, M.P.P. / Bill Mauro, M.P.P. Thunder Bay – Superior North / Thunder Bay – Atikokan For Immediate Release May 25, [Read more]
FROM/DE: Marathon OPP Detachment DATE: May 25, 2010 MOTOR VEHICLE COLLISION (MARATHON, ON.) –On May 25, 2010 at 06:45am the Marathon OPP responded to a motor vehicle collision that occurred on Highway 17, West of the Hemlo Mine site, located East [Read more]
FROM/DE: SUPERIOR EAST OPP DATE: May 25, 2010 MISCHIEF AT DOMTAR MILL (WHITE RIVER, ON.) – On May 20, 2010 Superior East OPP attended the Domtar Mill regarding a report of a Break, Enter and Mischief at that location. Investigation revealed that person(s) unknown had entered by [Read more]
McGuinty Meets Israeli Prime Minister In Visit To Jerusalem Ontario’s life sciences mission celebrated the first new partnerships signed between Israeli and Ontario companies at a ceremony in Tel Aviv. The partnerships included: Ontario’s Ministry of Research & Innovation and [Read more]
HAWK JUNCTION PHONES BACK IN SERVICE (Hawk Junction, ON) – On May 25, 2010 at 10:00 am Bell Canada advised Superior East OPP that the phone lines in Hawk Junction have now been repaired and are back in full service. Service had been out for much of the weekend due to an equipment failure. [Read more]
MANITOUWADGE PUBLIC SCHOOL NEWS Pharaohs, mummies, tombs and construction was the order of things at Manitouwadge Public School this week. As part of their unit on Ancient Civilizations, Mr. Jones’ grade 4/5 class used cookies, cement and various other concoctions to build their series of [Read more]
MANITOUWADGE PUBLIC SCHOOL Seen here are only two of the community minded young people we have in our little town. On the hottest day we have had this year all the students at Manitouwadge Public School ventured outside to rid our streets, ditches and roadways of thoughtlessly discarded [Read more]
May 21, 2010 NEW DEMOCRATS WELCOME GOVERNMENT’S INTENTION TO NEGOTIATE HST WITH FIRST NATIONS Elliot Lake – Months of repeated requests from Northern Ontario New Democrat MPs paid off late Thursday as Finance Minister Jim Flaherty agreed to meet with the leadership of Ontario First Nations [Read more]
Dredging Shorelands on Lake Simcoe Proves Costly A Thorah Island landowner and a marine contractor pled guilty to dredging a boat slip on the shorelands of Lake Simcoe. Court heard that on October 22, 2008, conservation officers observed a boat slip that was excavated without the authority of a [Read more]
MANITOUWADGE PUBLIC SCHOOL As part of a unit on measurement, Mrs. Meagher’s JK/SK/1 class had fun learning about ‘area’. Even the JK students enjoyed using blocks and playing cards to see whose ‘island’ had the greatest and whose island had the smallest area. [Read more]
MPs Tour Canadian Forest Industry Success Story Employee-owned Harmac mill to increase production despite decimated sector, MPs find NANAIMO – Nestled on Canada’s west coast is a rare pulp & paper success story that could serve as a model to revive other struggling mills across Canada, say [Read more]
