February 28-29 SHSM – Outdoor Ed – Winter Camping March 6 School Council Meeting – 7pm – Library 11 Daylight Savings Time Begins – change clocks ahead 12-16 Spring Break 19/20 Date Change!!! Grad Photos – reschedule appointment with Ms. Guloien 21 Accommodation Review Committee [Read more]
Motion passes Parliament unanimously, government must now follow through OTTAWA, ON – Monday night in Parliament, MPs voted unanimously to commit the federal government to boosting financial support for First Nations students to bring them to par with provincial schools. The NDP motion, based [Read more]
WAWA, ON – Monday February 27, 2012 at 10:22 pm, Ontario Provincial Police responded to a call on Highway 17 in Bailloquet Township just North of Wawa. Upon arrival the OPP had occasion to speak with a male observed driving a motor vehicle. The driver, Kenneth BREZENSKI age 57 of Wawa, [Read more]
WATERLOO, ON– Wednesday, February 21st (Secondary School Competition) and 22nd (Elementary School Competition) Marathon’s École secondaire Cité-Supérieur AND Holy Saviour School each claimed Bronze medals in their divisions at the Skills Ontario 2012 Cardboard Boat [Read more]
MARATHON ON – Saturday February 18, 2012 at 09:50 pm, Ontario Provincial Police (O.P.P.) officers conducted a R.I.D.E. program on Peninsula Road in the Town of Marathon. While conducting the R.I.D.E. 2 snowmobiles approached the location. One snow machine tried to evade police but was stopped a [Read more]
Stephen Harper’s promises in the 2008 election included commitments about bitumen (heavy oil) from Canada’s tar sands: That we would not export the raw material to be upgraded and refined elsewhere (existing US contracts aside) and; that we would not trade the resource to countries with lesser [Read more]
North must preserve its weight in Parliament during new redistribution, NDP MPs say THUNDER BAY, ON – Northern Ontario’s six New Democrat MPs calling on the region’s Conservative representatives to stand with them in defending fair representation for the region. They are introducing a [Read more]
Public safety will not be compromised OTTAWA, ON – Bill C-19, the government’s bill to end registration requirements for non-restricted firearms such as hunting rifles and shotguns, comes up for its final House of Commons vote Tuesday evening, at Third Reading. Standing firm on a long-time [Read more]
WILL THE SNOW BE YOUR LUCKY CHARM? MANITOUWADGE, ON – Township of Manitouwadge Community Services is doing it again… Director Dan Deschamps has, since beginning in his role with the ‘rec department’ in December, been earning a reputation for thinking ‘outside the [Read more]
MANITOUWADGE, ON – February 14th, Manitouwadge General Hospital Ladies Auxiliary President Linda Killingbeck presented hospital CEO Mr. Jocelyn Bourgoin with a final check in the amount of $3,750.00 towards the purchase of a Stratus CS Stat Fluometric Chemistry Analyzer used to perform tests [Read more]
February 13-17 Hunter Safety Course – 6pm to 10pm – Room 168 14-16 NSSSAA Finals @ Hornepayne – Good Luck to our Sr Girls VB and Sr Boys BB!! 15 Canadian Armed Forces – in the front foyer @ noon 20 Family Day Holiday – school will be closed 21-24 Hunter Safety Course – 6pm to [Read more]
“Ask the NWMO” is a question-and-answer feature that will be appearing regularly on OntarioNewsNorth.com providing an opportunity for you to pose questions directly to NWMO staff about Canada’s plan for managing used nuclear fuel over the long term. Communities like Wawa, Schreiber, [Read more]
The Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation (NOHFC) has helped thousands of projects take root and grow in the North. They have published a collection of articles about businesses they have assisted on their site, among them the story of NOHFC’s investment in Terrace Bay (Northern [Read more]
MANITOUWADGE, ON – Sunday, February 5th patrons of the Nite on the Town Entertainment Series in Manitouwadge attended in record numbers, nearly reaching capacity at the Manitouwadge High School auditorium, to hear Serena Ryder perform. Ryder did not dissapoint, putting on an incredible show [Read more]
MANITOUWADGE, ON – February 8, 2012 approximately 4:30 pm members of the Manitouwadge Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) accompanied the Children’s Aid Society (CAS) to a residence in Manitouwadge to assist with an investigation. While in the residence, OPP officers observed [Read more]
