Have you seen the Old Woman Ice Caves? By Johanna Rowe Unless you have escaped Ontario for a winter of palm trees and golfing, you are painfully aware that we are currently experiencing one of the coldest and harshest winters we Northerners have seen in a very long time. The mercury in our [Read more]
This week in Queen’s Park the NDP announced their plan to create jobs for families in Ontario through a targeted tax credit that rewards job creators for new hires. This tax credit will help small businesses that are creating jobs here Algoma-Manitoulin and northern Ontario not the ones [Read more]
WAWA, ON – Algoma-Manitoulin MPP Michael Mantha met with Rentech officials during his constituency week to discuss the progress of their project as well as future jobs it will bring to the community and surrounding areas. The mill, which will be converted to an industrial wood pellet [Read more]
This week marked another constituency week where I had the opportunity to tour the riding and offer clinics. I visited several communities in the northwestern part of the riding and heard many of your concerns. Unfortunately things are not improving for many families. Affordability continues [Read more]
Your Community Care Access Centre connects you with the care you need, at home and in your community. We provide access to home, community and school health services, facilitate placement into long-term care homes, and provide information and referral to a broad range of community-based health [Read more]
WAWA, ON – The month of February has been a very special one for the Wawa’s École Saint-Joseph Chevaliers senior girls’ volleyball team. After competing in the Franco-Ontarian Volleyball Championship in Whitby where they finished in the top eight, the Chevaliers returned to Wawa on [Read more]
My father always looked for a January thaw. He seldom ever got it in the Ottawa Valley. Being further north maybe a February thaw is more appropriate and probably just as elusive, especially in a winter like this one. And last Friday, February 14, 2014 wasn’t quite there although many of you [Read more]
3:31 PM EST Wednesday 19 February 2014 Potential for 25 to 30 cm of snow starting Thursday night into Friday. An Alberta clipper and Texas low will be tracking towards the Great Lakes where they will merge and rapidly intensify into a major winter storm. This storm is expected to reach Lake [Read more]
It’s frozen! The lake, the streets, the car, my fingers and my brain….all so hardened that nothing works well! The tires on the car have been so often square that they decided that the tire monitor would scream at me and stay there until….who knows? The Drop In is still a nice warm place [Read more]
CSCNO schools win gold, silver and bronze medals at the regional Elementary Cardboard Boat Race competition January 28, students from Conseil scolaire catholique du Nouvel-Ontario (CSCNO) schools won the gold, silver and bronze medals at the North-Eastern Ontario Regional Elementary Cardboard Boat [Read more]
TORONTO, ON – Wesdome Gold Mines Ltd. (TSX: WDO) is pleased to announce strong fourth quarter production results. Production numbers are subject to final refining balances to be reported in the 2013 year-end financial report, expected to be released in the second week of March, 2014. Revenues are [Read more]
TORONTO, ON – Wesdome Gold Mines Ltd. (“Wesdome”) (TSX:WDO) and Moss Lake Gold Mines Ltd. (“Moss Lake”) (TSXV:MOK) are pleased to announce that they have entered into a business combination agreement (the “Agreement”), pursuant to which Wesdome will acquire (the “Transaction”) all [Read more]
The Algoma Workforce Investment Corporation (AWiC) appoints new Labour Development Coordinator to the Superior East Labour Development Task Force (SELDTF) The Algoma Workforce Investment Corporation (AWiC) is pleased to announce that Tamara Liddle has been appointed to the position of Labour [Read more]
WAWA, ON – January 5, 2014 at 11:00 am officers from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Superior East Wawa Detachment were directing traffic at a motor vehicle collision scene on Highway 17 in Laronde Township. A black Ford F-150 was observed driving in a dangerous manner and was stopped by [Read more]
Manitouwadge – Hornepayne – Wawa – Pukaskwa Park 4:24 PM EST Thursday 09 January 2014 Snow, rain and freezing rain for Northeastern Ontario Friday night into Saturday. A deepening low pressure system will track through Northeastern Ontario on Saturday reaching Southern James Bay [Read more]
