Posts Tagged ‘northwestern ontario daily news’

Tyler’s Take on this Week’s Releases Whenever Oprah Winfrey attaches her name to any movie project, you know it’s going to be big. Oprah co-stars in this week’s headline new release “The Butler”, along with a star studded cast in a movie about a man who served the White House for eight [Read more]

MANITOUWADGE, ON – Recently our Student Council spearheaded a very generous project for our school.  They ran a ‘challenge’ for individual classrooms to bring in a non-perishable food item for our local food bank.   Every classroom donated quite impressively. In the photos above and [Read more]

Green Light For myCare MANITOUWADGE, ON – Late in 2012, the Manitouwadge General Hospital (MGH) initiated a one year pilot project with the North West Community Care Access Centre (NWCCAC) to deliver home nursing services by the nursing staff of MGH to the residents [Read more]

Ontario Chief Prevention Officer George Gritziotis is “extremely distressed by number of workplace fatalities related to falls.” From childhood onward, every single one of us has fallen at one time or another. Whether it was a tumble from a bicycle or piece of playground equipment, you quickly [Read more]

The Joint Panel reviewing the Marathon PGM-Cu Mine project has set the date of the public hearing which will  commence February 20th in Marathon, ON.  The linked document (below) is meant to help participants prepare for the public hearing and answer some of the key questions that participants [Read more]

SCHREIBER, ON – From September to December Holy Angels School put on a floor hockey league at the Holy Angels School gymnasium. Congratulations to the winners of this league, they were the “Kookens”: Peter MacEwen, Lexi Armstrong, Christopher Speziale and Kennedy Bahm. This team had a [Read more]

3:45 PM EST Tuesday 07 January 2014 Wind chill warning for  Nipigon – Rossport – Marathon – Manitouwadge – Hornepayne – Geraldton – Longlac – Caramat – Nakina – Aroland – Pagwa Wind chills near minus 40 again tonight. Conditions will [Read more]

TYLER TALKS A new year, a new month and new movies! January 2014 is jam packed with Award nominated titles including The Butler and Captain Phillips. Combine this with major titles like Riddick, Carrie, Last Vegas, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 and Rush and you’ve got a month with something [Read more]

Two Timmins residents have been fined a total of $3,500 for an illegal deer hunt. Roger Gagnon and Robert Pearce pleaded guilty and were fined $2,000 and $1,500 respectively for discharging a firearm from a roadway.The men are also banned from hunting in Ontario for a year. The court heard that on [Read more]

THUNDER BAY, ON – A member of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) from North West Region has been charged following an investigation by the members of the Kenora OPP Detachment. An investigation was initiated following an incident that occurred in Kenora on December 28, 2013. As a result of the [Read more]

TORONTO, ON – KWG Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:KWG) (“KWG”) has received conditional listing approval for an increase to $2,500,000 of its private placement of flow-through units (“Units”) which is extended to February 7, 2014. Each Unit comprises one flow-through [Read more]

OPP Report Fewer Impaired Charges and Warn Range Suspensions ORILLIA, ON – An early thank you to Ontario drivers seems to have paid off for the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) as they report significantly fewer impaired driving charges and Warn Range Suspension totals for their 2013 Festive [Read more]

GOODBYE 2013 ~ HELLO  2014! Goodbye 2013, hello 2014! While some (if not most) of us are scratching our heads wondering where the last 365 days went, the end of the year is an ideal time to recollect on some of the year’s best movies. Keep reading for my list of my favorite movies of the year [Read more]

11:21 AM EST Sunday 29 December 2013 Wind chill warning for Marathon – Schreiber – Nipigon – Rossport Cold wind chills of minus 40 to minus 45 today or tonight. A ridge of high pressure is building across Northern Ontario and bringing very cold temperatures combined with moderate [Read more]

 Geraldton – Manitouwadge – Hornepayne –  Nakina – Aroland – Pagwa –Manitouwadge – Hornepayne – Geraldton – Longlac – Caramat 11:21 AM EST Sunday 29 December 2013 Cold wind chills of minus 40 to minus 45 today or tonight. A ridge of [Read more]