Fisheries crews from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry will be on Ontario’s lakes this summer monitoring fish populations, taking water samples, and checking for invasive species. If you’re on a lake that is being monitored and see buoys showing the Ontario logo, please don’t [Read more]
WAWA, ON – On Tuesday May 19, 2015, members of the Superior East Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were advised of a theft of tools from a construction site near the Cold Water River Bridge in the Township of Giles. Police were advised that the theft took place sometime [Read more]
SAULT STE. MARIE, ON – Sault Ste. Marie and Algoma District Crime Stoppers and the Blind River Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police are looking for the public’s assistance in solving a theft. Sometime between April 3 and April 7 2015 six Stihl model chainsaws were stolen from a [Read more]
A Foleyet man has been fined a total of $1,525 for falsifying trapping reports. Wilfred Trochimchuk pleaded guilty to four counts of failing to include appropriate information on a season-end harvest report and one count of making a false statement in a document and was fined $1,525. Court heard [Read more]
OTTAWA, ON – The government is cynically attempting to use veterans as a wedge to garner support for their pre-election budget despite years of inaction, says Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing MP, Carol Hughes. Hughes says the government should remove the items related to Veterans from the budget so [Read more]
WAWA, ON – The Superior East Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is reminding all motorists and property owners to keep their vehicles locked when unattended and keep their property secure. Motorists and property owners are encouraged to keep all valuables out of their vehicles when unattended [Read more]
This week the Auditor General released her report on Winter Highway Maintenance. The report said that the contracting out of highway maintenance services has led to a drastic decrease in services leaving roads unsalted and snow uncleared in the winter. My colleague and NDP Transportation Critic [Read more]
April 1 marked the debut of the forest fire season in Ontario. Since then, the Northeast Fire Region has confirmed and suppressed 9 fires totaling 39 hectares. The most recent fire was yesterday, confirmed as Sudbury 4 and called out at 1.5 hectares. The forest fire hazard is considered moderate in [Read more]
Let’s look on the bright side and change the spring tune. Slow melts are good for maple syrup, and low water levels and delays in golf times and maybe even the more time spent indoors at the Drop In…..well maybe, maybe not. Anyway, despite the glaring error in my last column about the days, [Read more]
OTTAWA, ON – Despite many societal advances we still have work to do if we want to live in a country where race is something that truly doesn’t matter, according to Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing MP, Carol Hughes. In an attempt to encourage people to challenge the stubborn phenomenon Hughes [Read more]
WAWA, ON – Thursday April 9, 2015 at approximately 9:02 pm members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Superior East Wawa Detachment had occasion to stop a motor vehicle for speeding on Highway 17 in the Bailloquet Township District of Algoma. As a result of police investigation the lone male [Read more]
OTTAWA, ON – The agreement that will have Railmark Canada take control of passenger services on the Algoma-Central-Railway has great potential to keep passenger trains running for years, according to Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing MP, Carol Hughes. “This is a positive development, but it is [Read more]
SUDBURY, ON – FNX Mining Company Inc. and one of its supervisors have pleaded guilty to safety violations at the Craig Mine in the City of Greater Sudbury and fined a total of $88,000. On September 7, 2013, two workers at the mine were assigned the task of backfilling a stope (a production [Read more]
OTTAWA, ON – Despite government claims that they are responding to the rash of train derailments, nothing will change if they allow railways to regulate themselves, according to Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing MP, Carol Hughes. Hughes raised the recent derailments in Northern Ontario during [Read more]
Robbery on the Garden River First Nations Published on Mar 9, 2015 Sault Ste. Marie and Algoma Crime Stoppers and the Anishinabek Police Service are looking for information to help solve a robbery. Between 12:00 am and 1:00 am on March 1, 2015 in the 100 block of Sweetgrass Street on the Garden [Read more]
