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Coun. Caputo refuses to cross border to attend tonight’s council meeting
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140Chippewa county voted overwhelmingly for Trump, so yeah, they can live with their decisions.
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Angela Caputo tells Doug Ford to stay in his lane
SooToday 97How about no. These bike lanes are a disaster. For what? 60-75 days of actual good weather biking days? My work doesn't offer shower and changing facilities, I'll never be able to bike to work. I used to, 20 years ago and survived w/o bike lanes.
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Shopping across the river? You could be 'tariffed' on your way back
SooToday 60You're WRONGAs a direct result of American tariffs, the Canadian government responded. So it feeds back to one man, Trump.Every sensible person knows what a tariff is, we know we pay it if our government imposes one but trump doesn't seem to understand that the people of the US are paying HIS tariffs. Our retaliatory ones are making US goods more expensive, buy Canadian, Mexican, Guatemalan etc if you don't want to pay anything extra in taxes (tariffs are just another tax rate).
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Public urged to act fast if child or pet is left in a hot car
SooToday 57I've got a ResQ hammer in my purse. I'll smash that window before 911 has time to connect thru. Don't care about charges or fines, I'm sure some crowd funding campaign would help offset those. Your window is not my concern...
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VIDEO: Old hospital owner wanted city to pay way more than $4.75M
SooToday 44I wouldn't say that. The fact that this lowlife purchased it for pennies and then turned it into an eyesore and bilked our tax dollars for hundreds of times more than they EVER spent on it...? Some of my other comments had to be deleted, they went against "community guidelines" yet, I'm sure everyone who read them would have agreed. A spade is a spade...
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Breakfast Pig owner pushes city to try a different food supplier
SooToday 42And she has multiple associations with many actual local businesses and food processors. She can't get everything local, who around here makes cooking oil? Any companies here making takeout containers? Saran wrap distributors anyone? The point was, Flanagan's is Canadian, local enough when compared to GFS' "Canadian" division, just a child under its American flag.
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'Executive health' clinics charging thousands as crackdown looms
SooToday 24Blame the OHIP/Health Care problem on Ford all you want but this disaster has been decades in the making...
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Ward 4 councillor proposes another traffic-signal study
SooToday 30Exactly what I suggested a few months ago, nice!
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Ward 4 councillor broke code of conduct, integrity commissioner rules
SooToday 37I've read the article a few times, still trying to figure out what happened here and who's crying in their cornflakes over what, a request and a subsequent rebuke of the request being ignored? Is that what they're talking about? Or was it the comment "let consultants do all the work"? Was that because those cushy dream jobs in city hall were being threatened? Annnnd why exactly did this city spend $11 million dollars on consultants...? Was that the no-no comment? Anyone?I'm not even clear about WHO he was talking about. Actual city staff or other city counsellors? This article wasn't very clear about certain things. You'd think with a hot topic issue of broken code of conduct/integrity/ethics, it would have been crystal clear about the circumstances
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'Decisive action': New tariffs on Chinese steel take effect today
SooToday 40Then buy Canadian. That's the whole point of tariffs. If they can outsource materials cheaper, they will. Canadian buildings should be built with Canadian steel, keeping jobs in Canada. You'd think being from SSM you'd understand this. This brings the cost of Chinese steel more in line with the Canadian steel prices.
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City declares significant weather event with plenty of white stuff coming our way
SooToday 33It's like the city does this so they can shirk the responsibility of getting everything cleaned up until the last minute. They'll scrape nothing off GNR 7 times today while side neighbourhoods continue to get buried. It means they'll plow your road at some point in the next 36-48 hours but don't call them when your windrow is 3m's wide and frozen solid, waist deep.
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What we saw at March and Albert last night
SooToday 31You mean crashes happen at intersections where there never was a traffic light to begin with!?! Shocker...But someone will still complain and say it absolutely MUST be because they took the light out at some of the previous intersections...
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Sault’s population at highest level since 1996 after big three-year spike
SooToday 32~ continued from original comment Responding, addressing and moving forward from these challenges is what defines us as a 'great place to live and grow' and I believe that city management needs to take a harder look at the societal problems before they go and do things like build a plaza.I realize the City of SSM is NOT in the business of health care and building social housing but the towns and cities we live in are MORE than just the roadways, parks and sewers. We need things to do and (for example) a plaza downtown was NOT the answer, with the few shops and eateries, it really is just a glorified strip mall.
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How the city's planning to rejigger Lyons Ave. and Wellington West
SooToday 34Yes, let's put the lipstick on the pig before fixing infrastructure problems (again I might add, didn't the underpass go through a total overhaul not that long ago?). But by all means, completely frustrate the drivers out there before important repairs are made...
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Sault’s population at highest level since 1996 after big three-year spike
SooToday 34I have lived here nearly all my life, save for approx 5 years where I moved to the K-W/Cambridge region in the late 90's/early 2000's. I moved back 20 years ago because this is home. This is where my family is. This is where I met my husband after moving back. This is his home. His family is here. We love the area, the great outdoors, the people and our community. Our neighbours are fantasticThe Sault has its challenges but everywhere does. You're all just fooling yourselves if you think the Sault is unique with all it's drug, crime and unsavoury characters. ~ to be continued in a reply
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Here’s the full list of dangerous pedestrian crossings the city hasn't rectified
SooToday 33As a driver, I've noticed that many, many intersections don't provide enough time to cross if you aren't able to sprint to the other side. The drivers posturing to get moving when an elderly person is still trying to clear out of the walkway is sickening. Does that extra 20-30 seconds it takes them to cross really matter that badly, so much so that you're basically nudging the senior out of the way with your bumper?
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Property tax notices may be delayed, but payment is still due on time: City
SooToday 8Crybaby. The amount due for March and May 5th is 25% of your 2024 final tax assessment. How long have you owned property around here not to know that it's always been that? Once they figure out the full amount for 2025, they assess the differences in the last two pymts, due by the 5th of July and September.
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Booze coming sooner than expected to more Ontario stores
SooToday 22$225 million paid to the multi-national, super-huge conglomerations of beer brewers (who DON'T need our TAX money!!!), riiiight...Good call Ford... We really needed this, alcohol in grocery stores... #DoBetter!!!
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Traffic signals to be permanently removed at two intersections
SooToday 14So now, just when everyone has figured it out (finally!!) they're going to put the lights back on at Elgin/Albert? S.m.r.tLeave them all off, shut off more. I spend more time idling at red lights daily than I do cooking supper every night. There are literally dozens of intersections that can be controlled with a yield and a stop sign, dozens more where the street lights can be scheduled a little better and hundreds more where sensors can control the lights so that the lone vehicle coming out of the P-Patch at Pentagon who's turning left onto McNabb can wait a few seconds before the lights switch. How many intersections do you all sit at, waiting for your green light when there is literally not a single soul around?Why can't the traffic signal lights all turn to flashing red after 11 pm? Why do we have to wait at a red light at 3am?
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'Scandals and failures' not unique to Trudeau: LU professor
SooToday 23Politics is a cycle. We're all optimistic about the 'new party' being elected. Then the shine wears off, the scandals begin, the crooks show their true colours and we all "can't wait" for a new election to get these Beau-zo's out of office. You're all just fooling yourself if you think this is turning a corner. wash/rinse/repeatI love how the party leader takes the blame for everything. Do you think Trudeau thought up all these laws, taxes, restrictions himself? Absolutely not, they're brought forward by all MP's and moved through the house accordingly. He's just the face of the party and their scapegoat all in one.
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