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130-657: OLG conducts and manages gaming on behalf of the province of Ontario, including: lottery, casinos, electronic bingo, and its internet gaming site. Private service providers operate most of OLG casinos. OLG continues to integrate horse racing into its games, including the administration of ongoing funding. It was created in April 2000 when the Ontario Lottery Corporation (OLC) was merged with the Ontario Casino Corporation (OCC), established in 1994. Prior to 2006,

260-523: A gambling addiction can benefit from the self-exclusion program operated by the OLG. An investigation conducted by the CBC's The Fifth Estate (TV series) in late 2017 led to concerns as to whether the program is effective. According to a CBC article, "Gambling addicts ... said that while on the ... self-exclusion list, they entered OLG properties on a regular basis" in spite of the facial recognition technology in place at

390-549: A resolution declaring English as the city's official language and the sole language for provision of municipal services. The resolution was widely seen as retaliation for Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa 's move to override the Supreme Court of Canada ruling that declared parts of Bill 101 unconstitutional. Bill 101 had declared French as the only official language of Quebec. Numerous other Ontario municipalities had already passed similar protest resolutions, but Sault Ste. Marie

520-510: A Canadian passenger ship, was a museum ship in the Great Lakes at Sault Ste. Marie. This ship is no longer docked in Sault Ste. Marie. Nearby parks include Pancake Bay Provincial Park , Batchawana Bay Provincial Park and Lake Superior Provincial Park . Winter activities are also an asset to Sault Ste Marie's tourism industry with the annual Bon Soo Winter Carnival , Searchmont Resort as

650-524: A complaint with the police. The OPP seized or froze over $ 5-million of Malik's assets, including bank accounts, three cars, and a home in Mississauga. OLG has since awarded the rightful winners the prize plus interest. The report by The Fifth Estate added that over 200 lottery retailers in Ontario have won major prizes from 1999 to 2006. A statistician featured in the report, Jeff Rosenthal , calculated that

780-428: A corporate office located on the waterfront. It employs a total of about 900 people in Sault Ste. Marie between the corporate office and OLG Casino Sault Ste. Marie . The prize centre used to be administered in the city but this operation was moved back to Toronto (York Mills) in 2009. The OLG is still the fourth-largest employer, after Algoma Steel , Sault Area Hospital , and the call centre industry. Sault Ste. Marie

910-558: A different Canadian hockey venue. Other than hockey, CBC Sports properties included Toronto Raptors basketball, Toronto FC soccer, and various other amateur and professional events. The telecast of the Olympics including the Summer and Winter Olympic Games on Canadian television on CBC's broadcast started in 1956. It has the rights to broadcast the Olympic Games until 2024. It was also

1040-428: A different time than the network, or were not broadcast on the station at all. Most private affiliates generally opted out of CBC's afternoon schedule and Thursday night arts programming. Private affiliates carried the 10 p.m. broadcast of The National as a core part of the CBC schedule, but generally omitted the 11 p.m. repeat (which is no longer broadcast). Most private affiliates produce their own local newscasts for

1170-530: A duration of at least 35 minutes. Some of the private affiliates later began adding CBC's overnight programming to their schedules since the network began broadcasting 24 hours a day in October 2006. Following the disaffiliation of the last privately owned CBC affiliate CKSA-DT in Lloydminster on August 31, 2016, no more private stations operate as CBC affiliates, as many such stations have been purchased either by

1300-520: A great ski and snowboard destination, Stokely Creek Lodge (cross country ski resort) and Hiawatha a nearby cross country ski trails. The city also hosts a large snowmobile trail system that criss-crosses the province of Ontario. A new non-motorized HUB trail, named the John Rowswell Hub Trail , was built around the city (25 km or 16 mi) so that walkers, rollerbladers and cyclists (snowshoeing and cross country skiing in winter) can enjoy

1430-564: A point on the line which became known as Sudbury Junction. This junction point became a small CPR town, and with the discovery of vast mineral resources in the Sudbury Basin during the construction of this transcontinental line north of the junction, mining activity in the Sudbury area grew explosively, leading to the creation of Sudbury District in 1894 and shifting economic focus away from Sault Ste. Marie. The original CPR line (by then known as

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1560-521: A programming agreement with the CBC, in which the station would continue to provide CBC programming in Thunder Bay for a period of five years. On March 16, 2012, Astral Media announced the sale of its assets to Bell Media , owners of CTV and CTV Two , for $ 3.38 billion with CFTK and CJDC included in the acquisition. Both stations subsequently became CTV Two stations. CBC television stations in Nunavut ,

1690-497: A public relations measure without actually helping those with problem gambling issues. A campaign of this type "deflects attention away from problematic products and industries," according to Natasha Dow Schull, a cultural anthropologist at New York University and author of the book Addiction by Design. Other experts believe that self-enforcement is part of the problem gambler's own responsibility, as one aspect of any therapy program. "Without such acceptance of responsibility, much of

1820-637: A reduced military base at Sault Ste. Marie. The first Algerine -class minesweeper in the Royal Canadian Navy was named HMCS Sault Ste. Marie (J334) after the city. It was laid down in 1942 and acted as a convoy escort in the Battle of the Atlantic . On January 29, 1990, under mayor Joe Fratesi , Sault Ste. Marie became a flashpoint in the Meech Lake Accord constitutional debate when council passed

1950-537: A reference to the rapids of Saint Marys River. Etymologically, the word sault comes from an archaic spelling of saut (from sauter ), which translates most accurately in this usage to the English word cataract . This in turn derives from the French word for "leap" or "jump" (similar to somersault ). Citations dating back to 1600 use the sault spelling to mean a cataract, waterfall or rapids. In modern French, however,

2080-476: A regional meeting place during whitefish season in the St. Mary's Rapids (the anglicized form of this name, Bawating, is used in institutional and geographic names in the area). French settlers referred to the rapids on the river as Les Saults de Ste-Marie ( the rapids of St. Marie ) and the village name was derived from that. The rapids and cascades of the St. Mary's River descend more than 6 m (20 ft) from

2210-463: A retransmitter of its nearest O&O station to ensure that CBC service is continued. However, due to an agreement between CHBC and CFJC-TV in Kamloops , CFJC also disaffiliated from the CBC on February 27, 2006, but no retransmitters were installed in the licence area. Former private CBC affiliates CKPG-TV Prince George and CHAT-TV Medicine Hat disaffiliated on August 31, 2008, and joined E!, but

2340-523: A roundabout in Gros Cap , the highway loops around the Sault Ste. Marie Public Utilities Commissions' water intake building. This newer limited-access roadway, known as "Carmen's Way" and named after the late MP Carmen Provenzano , has made it easier for transport trucks to reach Highway 17 and other major area roads. The route of Carmen's Way has a wide grassy right-of-way on both sides of the roadway, to facilitate future expansion of its lane capacity. Planning

2470-440: A simulcast of its sister news network Ici RDI after regular programming ends for the night until the next programming day begins. While historically there has been room for regional differences in the schedule, as there is today (see "Stations", below), for CBC-owned stations, funding has decreased to the point that most of these stations no longer broadcast any significant local programming beyond local newscasts and an edition of

2600-462: A single local newscast on weekend evenings (comprising a supper hour broadcast on Saturdays and a late evening newscast on Sundays). Weekly newsmagazine The Fifth Estate is also a CBC mainstay, as are documentary series such as Doc Zone . One of the most popular shows on CBC Television is the weekly Saturday night broadcast of NHL hockey games, Hockey Night in Canada . It has been televised by

2730-820: A sizable French-speaking population, and these residents objected strongly to the council's action. The resolution was struck down by a court ruling in 1994, one year after Premier Bourassa passed Bill 86 , which amended that province's language laws in accordance with the Supreme Court ruling. Sault Ste. Marie has a humid continental climate ( Köppen climate classification Dfb ) with cold, snowy winters and warm humid summers that are moderated to some extent by Lake Superior . Winters are cold and very snowy, usually beginning in mid-late November and lasting until early April. Temperatures drop below −20 °C (−4 °F) just over 26 days per year. Summers are warm and humid with mild nights. Temperatures above 30 °C (86 °F) occur 12 days per year. The average annual precipitation

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2860-508: A small canteen, a marina, public washrooms, a Roberta Bondar statue, and green space; located to the right (looking at the city from the waterfront) is Montana's and the newly renovated City Hall, and to the left, Delta Sault Ste. Marie Waterfront and the Station Mall . Sault Ste. Marie is also served by Sault Ste. Marie Airport and Sault Transit Services . The city is no longer connected by passenger rail to any other major cities, but

2990-603: A solar energy equipment manufacturer. In 2021, Sault Ste. Marie and the PUC began work on the Sault Smart Grid (SSG) Project. The project utilizes new technologies which will optimize voltage, automate distribution, and incorporate advanced metering infrastructure. It is expected to reduce electricity costs for residential and commercial customers of the PUC, and will help reduce the frequency and length of power outages through immediate location of outages and increased reliability of

3120-524: A standard call letter naming convention, in that the first two letters are "CB" (an ITU prefix in the CA-CE block allocated not to Canada (whose block is CF-CK), but to Chile) and the last letter is "T". Only the third letter varies from market to market; however, that letter is typically the same as the third letter of the CBC Radio One and CBC Radio 2 stations in the same market. An exception to this rule are

3250-549: A subsidiary called the Northern, North-Western, and Sault Ste. Marie Railway , competing directly with the CPR. It also collapsed and ultimately the line terminated at a junction with the CPR line south of North Bay, named Nipissing Junction. Throughout the abrupt rise and fall of these competing projects, CPR construction had slowly marched westward under engineer James Worthington. By 1884, however, changes had occurred in CPR management with

3380-480: A time under new ownership. Also related to wood products is ARAUCO, which employs over 110 people in the community. An adjacent melamine factory manufactures products with ARAUCO's materials. Examples are furniture and cupboards where a finish is added to the product. Together both of ARAUCO's factories employ about 150 people. The Huron Central Railway is important to these local industries as well. The business process outsourcing industry had three call centres in

3510-498: Is 1,184.2 mm (46.62 in), which is fairly evenly distributed throughout the year; the autumn months of September to November are the wettest months. The highest temperature ever recorded in Sault Ste. Marie was 37.2 °C (99.0 °F) on 3 July 1921, while the record low was −41.1 °C (−42.0 °F) on 26 January 1927. The city developed considerable industry before and after World War II, especially in steel-making. Algoma (formerly Algoma Steel; Essar Steel Algoma)

3640-786: Is a city in Ontario , Canada. The third-largest city in Northern Ontario after Sudbury and Thunder Bay , it is located on the St. Mary's River on the Canada–US border . To the southwest, across the river, is the United States and the city of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan . The two cities are joined by the Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge , which connects Interstate 75 on the Michigan side to Huron Street on

3770-404: Is available in free ad-supported and premium versions, with the latter including advertising-free video on-demand, access to CBC News Network, and access to premium content that is exclusive to subscribers. At launch, the CBC announced plans to add at least 50 Canadian films to Gem per-year, and announced a partnership with Telefilm Canada to stream a selection of featured Canadian films on

3900-408: Is one of only a few cities in Ontario where a municipal bylaw prevents stores from opening on December 26, the day after Christmas, which is a Commonwealth holiday known as Boxing Day . Retail stores in Sault Ste. Marie begin their post-Christmas Boxing Day sales on December 27. A municipal referendum to determine whether voters favour allowing stores to open on Boxing Day was held concurrently with

4030-513: Is over terrain where there were few observers and the long winter nights could hide activity. A joint Canadian and US committee called the "Permanent Joint Board on Defence" drove the installation of anti-aircraft defence and associated units of the United States Army Air Forces and Royal Canadian Air Force to defend the locks. An anti-aircraft training facility was established 100 km (62 mi) north of Sault Ste. Marie on

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4160-627: Is part of the Algoma Central Railway network, which runs north from the city to the small town of Hearst . In 2006 the city's Member of Parliament , Tony Martin , called for passenger rail service to be reinstated between Sault Ste. Marie and Sudbury. In 2018, Ontario Northland announced a major service expansion west of Sudbury, which includes multiple stops in Sault Ste. Marie. Passengers may board buses headed toward Hearst , Sudbury , or Manitoulin Island . ONTC currently has three stops in

4290-575: Is responsible for and operates a variety of gaming services, the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) regulates casino gaming. OLG reports through its board of directors to the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Gaming. OLG operates a self-exclusion program for people with gambling addictions, although this program has been controversial. The Ontario Lottery Corporation was created in February 1975 under

4420-547: Is the largest single employer, with 3,500 employees at the main plant and approximately 553 (440 unionized and 113 non-unionized) at an adjacent tube mill operated by Tenaris . During the 1940s, the steel and chromium operations were of substantial importance to the war effort in Canada and the United States. Algoma Steel and the Chromium Mining and Smelting Corporation were key producers for transportation and military machines. The Huron Central Railway has been important into

4550-475: The 1080i to 720p resolution format. In August 2012, after the CBC shut down all of their remaining analogue transmitters, CBC television (as well as CBC News Network ) began broadcasting all programming solely in the 16:9 aspect ratio and began letterboxing its widescreen feed for standard definition viewers just as Ici Radio-Canada Télé has done since September 2007. All CBC television stations, including those in major cities, are owned and operated by

4680-412: The 2010 municipal election . Voter turnout was not high enough to make the referendum legally binding, but 60.77 per cent of voters opposed allowing stores to open on the holiday. The Sault Ste. Marie Solar Park (68 MW), co-generation plant (Brookfield Power), F. H. Clergue Hydroelectric Generating Station, nearby Prince Township Wind Farm (189 MW) and several nearby hydroelectric dams, form part of

4810-474: The CBC program The Fifth Estate aired an investigative report on lottery retailers winning major prizes, focusing on the ordeal of 82-year-old Bob Edmonds. His $ 250,000 winning Encore ticket was stolen by a convenience store clerk when he went to have his ticket checked in 2001. For the next four years, OLG ignored Edmonds' inquiries after the clerk and her husband were falsely named the rightful winners. Later, when

4940-600: The CBC North stations in Yellowknife , Whitehorse and Iqaluit , whose call signs begin with "CF" due to their historic association with the CBC's Frontier Coverage Package prior to the advent of microwave and satellite broadcasting. Some stations that broadcast from smaller cities were private affiliates of the CBC, that is, stations which are owned by commercial broadcasters but predominantly incorporated CBC programming within their schedules. Such stations generally followed

5070-694: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation , the national public broadcaster . The network began operations on September 6, 1952, with its main studios at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre in Toronto. Its French-language counterpart is Ici Radio-Canada Télé . CBC Television is available throughout Canada on over-the-air television stations in urban centres, and as a must-carry station on cable and satellite television providers, and live streamed on its CBC Gem video platform. Almost all of

5200-718: The Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre , Entomica Insectarium , the Sault Ste. Marie Museum , the Sault Ste. Marie Canal National Historic Site, boat tours of the Sault locks (which connect Lake Superior with the lower Great Lakes ), Whitefish Island , the Ermatinger Clergue National Historic Site , Casino Sault Ste. Marie , the Art Gallery of Algoma and the Algoma Central Railway 's popular Agawa Canyon Tour Train. The MS Norgoma ,

5330-619: The Midwest , benefiting Hill's St Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad . Simultaneously, there were political considerations around the railway as a nation-building project coupled with fears of American expansionism. During the Red River Rebellion , the Wolseley expedition had left Toronto in May 1870 and only arrived at Fort Garry , Manitoba by August. American control of the Sault Ste. Marie locks

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5460-547: The Northwest Territories and Yukon , branded as CBC North , tailor their programming mostly to the local native population, and broadcast in many native languages such as Inuktitut , Gwichʼin and Dene . From 1994 through July 2005, CBC Television's news programming was aired in the United States on Newsworld International . On September 11, 2001, several American broadcasters without their own news operations, including C-SPAN and Home Shopping Network , carried

5590-449: The St. Lawrence Seaway . The city operates its own small-scale lock which is used by small boats and other pleasure craft in the summer. Also recently opened is a multi-modal terminal designed to take advantage of the Sault as a rail, road, and water transportation hub. Cruise ships often dock at Roberta Bondar Park , which includes a large pavilion, small farmers market, a BeaverTails outlet,

5720-421: The infomercials aired by most private stations, or a simulcast of CBC News Network in the style of BBC One 's nightly simulcast of BBC News Channel , the CBC uses the time to air repeats, including local news, primetime series, films and other programming from the CBC library. Its French counterpart, ICI Radio-Canada Télé , which continued to sign off every night for several years after that, now broadcasts

5850-436: The 21st century to the steel operation, despite extensive railway restructuring elsewhere. Genesee & Wyoming , owner of the railway, announced its intention to discontinue operations. It continued to operate under an agreement which terminated on August 15, 2010. Sault Ste. Marie prospered during the 1960s and '70s, but as imported steel began to compete with domestic production, the local industry began to contract. Since

5980-612: The American side of the border via Sault Ste. Marie's transport route, which runs from the International Bridge, travels along Carmen's Way to Second Line East, and then meets with Great Northern Road (Highway 17), where transports can either turn left to go north, towards Thunder Bay , or continue straight to go east, towards Sudbury . The section from Second Line East to Great Northern Road is also known as Ontario Highway 550 , which runs from Great Northern Road and Second Line East to

6110-778: The CBC announced it would not add new retransmitters to these areas. Incidentally, CFJC, CKPG and CHAT are all owned by an independent media company, Jim Pattison Group . With the closure of E! and other changes in the media landscape, several former CBC affiliates subsequently joined CTV, Citytv or Global, or closed altogether. According to filings to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) by Thunder Bay Electronics (owner of CBC's Thunder Bay affiliate CKPR-DT ) and Bell Media (owner of CBC affiliates CFTK-TV in Terrace and CJDC-TV in Dawson Creek),

6240-456: The CBC has sometimes struggled to maintain ratings comparable to those it achieved before 1995, although it has seen somewhat of a ratings resurgence in recent years. In the 2007–08 season, popular series such as Little Mosque on the Prairie and The Border helped the network achieve its strongest ratings performance in over half a decade. In 2002, CBC Television and CBC News Network became

6370-704: The CBC informed them that it would not extend its association with any of its private affiliates beyond August 31, 2011. Incidentally, that was also the date for analogue to digital transition in Canada. Given recent practice and the CBC's decision not to convert any retransmitters to digital, even in markets with populations in the hundreds in thousands, it was not expected that the CBC would open new transmitters to replace its affiliates, and indeed pared back its existing transmitter network to just its digital transmitters in July 2012. However, in March 2011, CKPR announced that it had come to

6500-469: The CBC itself or by Canwest Global or CHUM Limited , respectively becoming E! (a small system owned by Canwest, but separate from its fully national Global Television Network ) or A-Channel (later A, now CTV Two ) stations. One private CBC affiliate, CHBC-TV in Kelowna , joined E! (then known as CH) on February 27, 2006. When a private CBC affiliate reaffiliated with another network, the CBC normally added

6630-671: The CBC itself, with their master control facilities all located at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre in Toronto. CBC owned-and-operated (O&O) stations operate as a mostly seamless national service with few deviations from the main network schedule, although there are some regional differences from time to time. For on-air identification, most CBC stations use the CBC brand rather than their call letters, not identifying themselves specifically until sign-on or sign-off (though some, like Toronto's CBLT , do not ID themselves at all except through PSIP ). All CBC O&O stations have

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6760-401: The CBC schedule, airing a minimum 40 hours per week of network programming. However, they often chose to opt out of some CBC programming in order to air locally produced programs, syndicated series or programs purchased from other broadcasters, such as CTV Two , which do not have a broadcast outlet in the same market. In these cases, the CBC programming being displaced may have been broadcast at

6890-483: The CBC's coverage of the terror attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C. In the days after September 11, C-SPAN carried CBC's nightly newscast, The National , anchored by Peter Mansbridge . C-SPAN has also carried CBC's coverage of major events affecting Canadians. Among them: Several PBS stations also air some CBC programs, especially The Red Green Show , although no CBC programming currently airs on

7020-414: The CBC's programming is produced in Canada. Although CBC Television is supported by public funding , commercial advertising revenue supplements the network (in contrast to CBC Radio and public broadcasters from several other countries, which are commercial-free.). CBC Television provides a complete 24-hour network schedule of news, sports, entertainment, and children's programming; in most cases, it feeds

7150-615: The CCA announced that TSN would obtain exclusive rights to curling broadcasts in Canada as of the 2008–09 season, shutting the CBC out of the championship weekend for the first time in 40-plus years. CBC Sports suffered another major blow when it was announced that after the 2007 season, the CFL regular season games and the Grey Cup would be moving to TSN, ending the CBC's tenure with the CFL. It has been stated that

7280-402: The CFL was not happy with the CBC's lacklustre production during the CBC's 2005 union lock-out, which forced the network to use CBC management to work the behind-the-scenes telecast and use stadium public address announcers in place of their regular announcer crew. On June 23, 2007, the network aired the first game in a two-year deal to broadcast Toronto Blue Jays games; the contract ended at

7410-582: The CPR Algoma Branch), which had lain dormant until 1888, was finally reactivated and completed through to Sault Ste. Marie, joining with the St Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad via the joint Sault Ste. Marie International Railroad Bridge . Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario was incorporated as a town in 1888, but its economy stagnated toward the end of the 19th century with the decline of the fur trade. The town gained brief international notoriety in 1911 in

7540-524: The Canadians constructed the Sault Ste. Marie Canal , which was completed in 1895. Although Sault Ste. Marie had been a planned destination for railway expansion since the early 1880s, there was considerable disagreement within the business consortium assembled to build the Canadian Pacific Railway as to whether or not to route its transcontinental line through it. The symbolic "first spike" of

7670-551: The Green Glade), daughter of a chief, and their multi-racial children were prominent among all societies here in the late eighteenth century. They frequently hosted prominent travelers from both the US and Canada. The children were taught English, Ojibwe and French. Their daughter, Jane Johnston married Henry Rowe Schoolcraft , a US Indian agent and early ethnographer, and they had children. Jane Johnston Schoolcraft has been recognized as

7800-731: The Hiawatha area of the city. The Algoma Trail Network plans to add more trails to the existing 30–40 km (19–25 mi) network, with initial work being completed by September 2021. In August 2021, Sail Superior ran tours of their Zodiac Hurricane boat with tours departing from the Roberta Bondar marina. One of the major draws to the area from the months of June to October is the Agawa Canyon Tour Train . This one-day wilderness excursion travels 114 miles north of Sault Ste. Marie, alongside pristine northern lakes and rivers and through

7930-478: The NHL to Rogers Communications , under a 12-year deal beginning in the 2014–15 NHL season . The CBC concurrently announced a sub-licensing agreement with Rogers, under which it would supply Sportsnet -produced Hockey Night in Canada broadcasts to CBC Television at no charge; all advertising during the broadcasts would be sold by Rogers, but the CBC would be provided with advertising time for its own programs. Officially,

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8060-571: The North American PSIP virtual channeling standard. In fall 2007, the CBC upgraded its Toronto facilities, becoming the second fully HD news broadcaster in Canada. The National and all its news programs originating from the same news studio in Toronto (including CBC News: Sunday Night ) are now available in HD. On September 1, 2011, as part of the analogue television shutoff and digital conversion , all CBC over-the-air HD broadcasts switched from

8190-586: The OLGC. OLG has since mandated new security measures to protect lottery customers, notably with customer-facing displays when tickets are checked, as well as special music played with a winning ticket. As of January 28, 2008, lottery retailers are required to ensure that tickets are signed. There is a signature box shown on the front of all online lottery tickets. In March 2007, OLG announced that it had recalled over 1,000,000 scratch and win tickets. The "Super Bingo" series of tickets were removed from retail stores after it

8320-542: The Ontario Lottery Corporation Act, 1975 (repealed in 1999 and replaced with the current Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation Act). Wintario was the first lottery game offered by the fledgling OLC on April 3, 1975, and the first drawing took place on May 15, 1975. The product was discontinued in late 1996 after awarding over CA$ 1.1 billion in winnings. OLG has five business divisions: OLG operates nine draw-style lottery games through retailers across

8450-602: The Ontario side. Shipping traffic in the Great Lakes system bypasses the Saint Mary's Rapids via the American Soo Locks , the world's busiest canal in terms of tonnage that passes through it, while smaller recreational and tour boats use the Canadian Sault Ste. Marie Canal . The Ojibwe , the indigenous Anishinaabe people of the area, call this area Baawitigong , meaning "place of the rapids". They used this as

8580-432: The Prairie (2007–12), and dramas such as The Tudors (2007–10), Heartland (since 2007) and Intelligence (2006–07). In recent years, British series such as Coronation Street and Doctor Who have been given greater prominence. As noted above, it now carries very little American programming apart from some syndicated daytime shows. In 2006, the CBC announced radical changes to its primetime line-up, including

8710-472: The US prohibited British traders from operating in its territory any longer, causing major losses. The areas separated by the river began to develop as two communities, both named Sault Ste. Marie. Anishinaabe " Time immemorial "–1671 Kingdom of France 1671–1763 British Empire 1763–1867 Canada 1867–present After the visit of Étienne Brûlé in 1623, the French called this area of rapids as Sault de Gaston in honour of Gaston, Duke of Orléans ,

8840-607: The awesome granite rock formations and vast mixed forests of the Canadian Shield, eventually ending at the Agawa Canyon. The train departs at 8am and returns to Sault Ste. Marie by 6pm. In August 2021 a new train station was opened for the tour train, the Canal district of the city. CBC Television CBC Television (also known as CBC TV , or simply CBC ) is a Canadian English-language broadcast television network owned by

8970-401: The beautiful and convenient circle tour around town. The Voyageur Hiking Trail , a long-distance trail that will eventually span from Sudbury to Thunder Bay , originated in Sault Ste. Marie in 1973. The Roberta Bondar Park and Pavilion, most famous for its unique tent design, was created to commemorate the first Canadian female astronaut to go into space and regularly hosts community events;

9100-405: The broadcast, Edmonds received a call from OLG's president, Duncan Brown, who apologized and claimed he was ashamed about how his staff treated Edmonds. OLG later released Edmonds from the confidentiality agreement. In another case, Toronto variety store owner Hafiz Malik had defrauded four school board employees out of their $ 5.7 million prize. He was arrested after the original ticket owners filed

9230-640: The broadcasts are carried by a CRTC -licensed part-time network operated by Rogers and affiliated with all CBC Television stations. This was required to formally assign responsibility for the broadcasts to Rogers; on-air, the telecasts otherwise use CBC branding and continuity. As a result of funding reductions from the federal government and decreased revenues, in April 2014, the CBC announced it would no longer bid for professional sport broadcasting rights. Among CBC Television's best-known primetime series are comedy series Rick Mercer Report (2004–18), This Hour Has 22 Minutes (since 1993) and Little Mosque on

9360-474: The brother of King Louis XIII of France . In 1668, French Jesuit missionaries renamed it as Sault Sainte-Marie , and established a mission settlement (present-day Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan ) on the river's south bank. Later, a fur trading post was established and the settlement expanded to include both sides of the river. Sault Ste. Marie is one of the oldest French settlements in North America. It

9490-405: The casinos. As well, a CBC journalist who tested the system found that he was able to enter casinos and gamble on four distinct occasions, in spite of being registered and photographed for the program. Previous studies in other countries have also confirmed that self-exclusion programs can be difficult to enforce. Some experts maintain that casinos, in general, arrange for self-exclusion programs as

9620-443: The chance that this would occur purely out of luck is one in a "trillion trillion trillion trillion" (or quindecillion ). OLG did have a policy on insider wins, but it was rarely enforced during that period. Provincial ombudsman André Marin released a report stating that Ontario store owners and their families claimed about $ 100 million in lottery wins between 1999 and 2006, with tens of millions of fraudulent claims being ignored by

9750-470: The city are called Saultites . Sault Ste. Marie is bordered to the east by the Rankin and Garden River reserves , and to the west by Prince Township . To the north, the city is bordered by an unincorporated portion of Algoma District , which includes the local services boards of Aweres , Batchawana Bay , Goulais and District , Peace Tree and Searchmont . The city's census agglomeration , including

9880-584: The city's push to develop alternative forms of energy and gain the title of 'Alternative Energy Capital of North America'. Two other wind farms are proposed for the area: the Goulais wind farm (25 MW) and the Bow Lake wind farm (58 MW), in partnership with the Batchewana First Nation to be built near Montreal River Harbour . Elementa Group has built a pilot waste-to-energy plant in Sault Ste. Marie, and

10010-494: The city, which together employed about 1,500 people. The largest, Sutherland Global Services , closed in 2019 and Agero closed in April 2020. Nucomm previously had a call centre here as well. The call centre industry became a major source of jobs and had contributed to the economic turnaround of the city in the late 1990s. Another large employer in the community is the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG). The OLG has

10140-426: The city, with the main stop being along Trunk Road in the east end, and the other stops being at Sault College and the hospital. Sault Ste. Marie does not have Lyft or Uber, but has three ridesharing companies that focus on small communities called URide, EZ Ride and Driverseat. The city has taxi services offered by Hollywood Airport Shuttle & Limousines, Soo Yellow Cab, and UCab. Local area attractions include

10270-656: The combined entity was known in short form as the OLGC (or SLJO in French). OLG employs approximately 1,400 individuals in Sault Ste Marie and the GTA offices. There are approximately 9,800 retailers operating more than 10,000 lottery terminals across the province. OLG's prize centre is located in Toronto , while the corporation's primary headquarters is located in Sault Ste. Marie . Whereas OLG

10400-548: The comedy Sophie from 2008 to 2009. Only The Border and Sophie were renewed for a second season in the fall of 2008. The new series Being Erica (2009–10) and the short-lived Wild Roses (2009) began airing in January 2009. Beginning in 2005, the CBC has contributed production funds for the BBC Wales revival of Doctor Who , for which it received a special credit at the end of each episode. This arrangement continued until

10530-508: The couple was arrested for fraud, OLG refused to return his winnings, maintaining that it wasn't their responsibility that they had been tricked; in 2004, a judge disagreed and forced OLG to give Edmonds his money. They did so, on the condition that Edmonds sign a confidentiality agreement , so that he would never tell the press about certain details of the ordeal. Also, The Fifth Estate uncovered internal OLG memos where several employees admitted they believed Edmonds' story. Immediately following

10660-492: The doubleheader on Hockey Night in Canada . The show also simultaneously broadcasts rolling coverage from CBC News Network from noon to 1 p.m. local time in most time zones (also from 6 to 7 a.m. in regions where a local CBC Radio One morning show is not simulcast instead). In addition to the mentioned late local newscasts, CBC stations in most markets fill early evenings with local news programs , generally from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., while most stations also air

10790-708: The east; the northern and eastern entrances to the city via Highway 17 are monitored by the Sault Ste. Marie Police Service with new cameras, scanning license plates upon entry/exit of the city—however as of April 2022, they are not yet fully operational. The International Bridge connects downtown Sault Ste. Marie to Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan , becoming Interstate 75 on the American side. Interstate 75 continues south to Saginaw , Flint , and Detroit before crossing into Ohio , eventually terminating in Hialeah, Florida , near Miami , and becoming toll roads SR 924 and SR 826 . The International Bridge also directs traffic from

10920-419: The effectiveness of self-exclusion programs would be lost", as one explained. As OLG literature confirms, the enforcement by a casino cannot be expected to be 100% foolproof. "If you attempt to re-enter a gaming facility in Ontario, your image may be captured by cameras and you may be automatically detected by security." An OLG spokesman provided this response when questioned by the CBC after the investigation of

11050-432: The end of fourth season, broadcast in 2008. The CBC similarly contributed to the first season of the spin-off series, Torchwood . More recently, the network has also begun picking up Canadian rights to some Australian series, including the drama series Janet King and Love Child , and the comedy-drama series Please Like Me . In 2015, CBC Television premiered Dan and Eugene Levy 's sitcom Schitt's Creek ;

11180-456: The end of the 2008 season, and was not renewed. In August 2007, it was also announced that the CBC would broadcast National Basketball Association games involving the Toronto Raptors , starting with the 2007–08 NBA season , through at least 2009–10; the CBC would carry 10 games for the 2007–08 and 20 games for the 2008–09 and 2009–10 seasons. In November 2013, the CBC lost its rights to

11310-445: The exclusive carrier of Canadian Curling Association events during the 2004–05 season. Due to disappointing results and fan outrage over many draws being carried on CBC Country Canada (now called Cottage Life ), the association tried to cancel its multiyear deal with the CBC signed in 2004. After the CBC threatened legal action, both sides eventually came to an agreement under which early-round rights reverted to TSN . On June 15, 2006,

11440-664: The first Native American poet and writer in the United States. This fluid environment changed during and after the War of 1812 between Britain and the United States. Trade dropped during the war and on July 20, 1814, an American force destroyed the North West Company depot on the north shore of the St. Marys River. Since the Americans were unable to capture Fort Mackinac , the British forces retained control of Sault Ste. Marie. As noted, after

11570-406: The first broadcasters in Canada that are required to provide closed captioning for all of their programming. On those networks, only outside commercials need not be captioned, though most of them are aired with captions. All shows, bumpers, billboards, promos and other internal programming must be captioned. The requirement stems from a human rights complaint filed by deaf lawyer Henry Vlug, which

11700-400: The following new series to premiere that fall: Many were surprised by these changes to the CBC schedule, which were apparently intended to attract a younger audience to the network; some suggested they might alienate the core CBC viewership. Another note of criticism was made when the network decided to move The National in some time zones to simulcast the American version of The One over

11830-638: The full network schedule. For a number of years CBC co-produced a news programme, Hemispheres , with Australia's national broadcaster, the ABC ; the program was hosted from Sydney and Vancouver and included reports from both networks' foreign correspondents. It was broadcast in both Canada and Australia and across Asia and the Pacific on the Australia Network . CBC Television stations can be received over-the-air or through cable in many American communities along

11960-411: The late 1980s, Algoma has declared bankruptcy twice and laid off large numbers of workers, adversely affecting the regional economy. Algoma was bailed out by the Ontario government with interest-free loans. The company had a swift turnaround in 2004 from its earlier financial troubles of the 1990s. China's increased demand for steel of the past decade has increased the price of steel. Denis Turcotte , CEO,

12090-461: The level of Lake Superior to the level of the lower lakes. Hundreds of years ago, this slowed shipping traffic, requiring an overland portage of boats and cargo from one lake to the other. The entire name translates to 'Saint Mary's Rapids' or 'Saint Mary's Falls'. The word sault is pronounced [so] in French, and / s uː / in the English pronunciation of the city name. Residents of

12220-413: The local Public Utilities Commission (PUC) collects methane gas from the city's landfill. The city's street lights fully utilize LED technology and as recently as 2021, there has been progress made as the city has begun to budget for the purchase of electric vehicles, starting in 2022, to replace their fleet of gasoline powered vehicles. Sault Ste. Marie is also the location of the headquarters of Heliene ,

12350-448: The network since 1952. During the NHL lock-out and subsequent cancellation of the 2004–05 hockey season, the CBC instead aired various recent and classic films, branded as Movie Night in Canada , on Saturday nights. Many cultural groups criticized this and suggested the CBC air games from minor hockey leagues; the CBC responded that most such broadcast rights were already held by other groups, but it did base each Movie Night broadcast from

12480-666: The parking lot has spaces for farmers market vendors and the pavilion also has a BeaverTails , a canteen, and overlooks the St. Mary's River . The park is often most active in the spring and summer and is located in between Montana's and Delta Sault Ste. Marie Waterfront , with the Roberta Bondar Place directly to the North, which consists of the OLG headquarters and other provincial government offices. Sault Ste. Marie has an extensive mountain biking network and has invested in new trails in

12610-566: The power supply. It will also allow for efficient additions to the power grid in the future. The SSG was officially launched in November 2023, with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in attendance. Sault Ste. Marie is served by Highway 17 , designated as a segment of the Trans-Canada Highway in the region. The highway connects the city to Thunder Bay to the northwest and Sudbury to

12740-410: The prize money is $ 10,000 or more, the process of claiming your prize will involve an interview and an investigator validating the authority of the ticket. Once approved, there will be a picture taken of you with your cheque. OLG publicizes all winners of $ 1,000 or more on their website. There is a time period of exactly one year from the draw date to claim Ontario lottery games. On October 25, 2006,

12870-414: The program, and excluded the analysis and documentary segment. This second airing was later replaced with other programming, and as of the 2012-13 television season, was replaced on CBC's major market stations by a half-hour late newscast. There is also a short news update, at most, on late Saturday evenings. During hockey season, this update is usually found during the first intermission of the second game of

13000-531: The province, it is 19. Violators who sell OLG lottery tickets to anyone under the age of 18 can face significant fines under the legislation passed in 1997. In addition OLG reserves the right to suspend violators found to have sold OLG lottery tickets to anyone under the age of 18. Prizes under $ 999.90 can be collected directly from a retailer that has a lottery terminal in store. This is subject to cash availability. People can collect bigger prizes by visiting an OLG Casino or Slot facility. This can be done by mailing

13130-807: The province. Lotto 6/49 , Lotto Max and Daily Grand are operated across Canada by the Interprovincial Lottery Corporation . The corporation also offers instant scratch games under the brand Instant Games, and sports games under the brands Pro-Line, Point-Spread and Pro-Picks. OLG used to offer a subscription-based lottery service called LOTTO ADVANCE for Lotto 6/49. This service is now discontinued since September 7, 2013. OLG owns and manages casinos. Most of these which have private operators, notably Great Canadian Entertainment and Gateway Casinos . OLG operates slot machine facilities at racetracks across Ontario. They are located at: Slots at racetracks generated $ 300 million annually for

13260-414: The racetracks until 2012 when the program ended. However, threatened with the closure of numerous tracks, the Ontario government extended the plan while it determined its future direction in gaming facilities. OLG operates a number of bingo centres throughout Ontario, including e-bingo. The minimum age to purchase OLG lottery tickets is 18; however, for patronizing casinos and/or parimutuel facilities in

13390-466: The railway had been driven at Bonfield, Ontario in Nipissing District in 1881, and construction had been proceeding westward. The American railway magnate James J. Hill , nicknamed the "Empire Builder", supported a route through Sault Ste. Marie, which would allow for both a "water bridge" to the head of Lake Superior at Thunder Bay and an all-rail connection to the west via American railways in

13520-403: The rise of William Cornelius Van Horne , who would later become the company's president. Both Hill and Worthington resigned from the company, and Hill became a bitter opponent of it. A new transcontinental mainline through Northern Ontario, passing directly through the interior and bypassing the lakeshore settlements along Lake Huron (including Sault Ste. Marie), was laid out and constructed from

13650-531: The same programming at the exact local times nationwide, except to the Newfoundland Time Zone , where programs air 30 minutes "late". On October 9, 2006, at 6:00  a.m., the network switched to a 24-hour schedule, becoming one of the last major English-language broadcasters to transition to such a schedule. Most CBC-owned stations previously signed off the air during the early morning hours (typically from 1:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m.). Instead of

13780-452: The self-enforcement program had been completed: "We provide supports to self-excluders by training our staff, by providing disincentives, by providing facial recognition, by providing our security officers to look for players. No one element is going to be foolproof because it is not designed to be foolproof". Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario Sault Ste. Marie ( / ˈ s uː s eɪ n t m ə ˈ r iː / SOO -saynt-mə- REE )

13910-632: The series began to achieve critical acclaim after it was acquired by the streaming service Netflix , and swept all seven comedy awards at the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards —becoming the first comedy or drama to sweep all seven major awards in their respective genre at the ceremony. CBC Gem is CBC Television's over-the-top streaming platform; it launched in 2018, replacing the existing CBC TV app. The service carries live and on-demand programming from CBC Television, CBC News, and CBC Sports, as well as short- and long-form original programming and acquisitions (including films and television series). The service

14040-672: The service ad-free for all users. Children's programming, often marketed as " CBC Kids " and "The Outlet", occupies most of the morning hours on weekdays and much of weekend mornings. On March 5, 2005, CBC Television launched a high definition simulcast of its Toronto ( CBLT-DT ) and Montreal ( CBMT-DT ) stations. Since that time, the network has also launched HD simulcasts in Vancouver ( CBUT-DT ), Ottawa ( CBOT-DT ), Edmonton ( CBXT-DT ), Calgary ( CBRT-DT ), Halifax ( CBHT-DT ), Windsor, ( CBET-DT ), Winnipeg ( CBWT-DT ), and St. John's ( CBNT-DT ). All HD channels map to their analogue positions via

14170-495: The shores of Lake Superior. Barrage balloons were installed, and early warning radar bases were established at five locations in northern Ontario ( Kapuskasing , Cochrane , Hearst , Armstrong (Thunder Bay District) , and Nakina ) to watch for incoming aircraft. Military personnel were established to guard sensitive parts of the transportation infrastructure. A little over one year later, in January 1943, most of these facilities and defences were deemed excessive and removed, save

14300-416: The summer regional documentary series Absolutely Canadian . Until 1998, the network carried a variety of American programs in addition to its core Canadian programming, directly competing with private Canadian broadcasters such as CTV and Global . Since then, it has restricted itself to Canadian programs, a handful of British programs, and a few American films and off-network repeats. Since this change,

14430-440: The summer. This later became a moot point, as The One was taken off the air after two weeks after extremely low American and Canadian ratings, and the newscast resumed its regular schedule. In 2006, daytime programming was also revamped. While there were still repeats of CBC and foreign series, new talk shows such as The Gill Deacon Show (2006–07) and the regional franchise Living (2007–09) were aired. The Gill Deacon Show

14560-494: The ticket to the OLG Prize Centre or by visiting the OLG Prize Centre in Toronto. When claiming the prize at the OLG Prize Centre, the prizewinner must have valid government identification as well as providing a signature. The ticket will be double-checked in case of fraud. If the prize money is $ 5000 or more the terminal will freeze and OLG will be contacted. OLG will inform the winner directly of how to claim their prize. If

14690-520: The townships of Laird , Prince and Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional and the First Nations reserves of Garden River and Rankin , had a total population of 79,800 in 2011. Native American settlements, mostly of Ojibwe -speaking peoples, existed here for more than 500 years. In the late 17th century, French Jesuit missionaries established a mission at the First Nations village. This

14820-402: The trial of Angelina Napolitano , the first person in Canada to use the battered woman defence for murder. It was incorporated as a city the following year in 1912. During World War II , and particularly after the US was attacked by Japan at Pearl Harbor in 1941, government concern turned to protection of the locks and shipping channel at Sault Ste. Marie. A substantial military presence

14950-432: The war and defining a new border, the US closed its territory to British Canadian traders, shutting off much interaction. In 1870, the United States refused to give the steamer Chicora , carrying Colonel Garnet Wolseley , permission to pass through the locks at Sault Ste Marie, which were otherwise available to both US and Canadian ships. They had built the first locks in 1855. In order to control their own water passage,

15080-619: The words chutes or rapides are more usual. Sault survives almost exclusively in geographic names dating from the 17th century. (See also Long Sault, Ontario , Sault St. Louis, Quebec , and Grand Falls/Grand-Sault, New Brunswick , three other place names where "sault" also carries this meaning.) Traders regularly interacted with tribes from around the Great Lakes. After the English took over former French areas of Canada, their traders became more prominent. Scots-British fur trader John Johnston , his Ojibwe wife, Ozhaguscodaywayquay (Woman of

15210-478: Was also announced that Martha Stewart's daytime show would be added to the CBC daytime line-up, with the nighttime Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! following in September 2008 (with a few edits to limit the amount of U.S. advertising). In January 2008, CBC Television launched the drama series The Border (2008–10), MVP (2008) and jPod (2008), the reality series The Week The Women Went (2008–09) and

15340-429: Was announced that a customer made the claim that he could visually tell which tickets were winners. It was the largest recall ever of a lottery ticket in Canada, and were prompted in part from greater media scrutiny regarding ongoing fraud investigations. In January 2009, OLG announced it has recalled over 1,000 scratch and win tickets. The "Fruit Scratch" series of lottery tickets were removed from retail stores after it

15470-400: Was at the crossroads of the 5,000 km (3,000 mi) fur trade route , which stretched from Montreal to Sault Ste. Marie and to the North country above Lake Superior . A cosmopolitan, mixed population of Europeans, First Nations peoples, and Métis lived at the village spanning the river. The city name originates from Saults de Sainte-Marie , archaic French for "Saint Mary's Falls",

15600-702: Was cancelled after just seven months, and replaced with another talk show, Steven and Chris from 2008 to 2015 ( Steven and Chris is also shown on the Live Well Network in the United States); Living was cancelled in August 2009. On January 9, 2007, the CBC began airing a highly publicized new series called Little Mosque on the Prairie (2007–12), a comedy about a Muslim family living in rural Saskatchewan . The series garnered strong ratings as well as international media attention, for most of its five-year run. It

15730-489: Was discovered that 87 slot machines at Provincially run casinos were displaying subliminal messages on slot machine screens to players. An image of a winning symbol combination was shown quickly before or during the simulated spinning of the slot machine reels. The manufacturer, Konami , provided a software update for the machines. In the wake of these controversies, the provincial government ordered Duncan Brown to be relieved of his position as OLG chief on 21 March 2007. This

15860-438: Was discovered that dozens of lottery tickets were reportedly misprinted. Up to 150 of the misprinted tickets were reportedly purchased at eight stores across Southern Ontario one week before the recall was issued. OLG has since reached an undisclosed settlement with a 27-year-old Thomas Noftall from Brampton , Ontario , who was mistakenly told that he might have won $ 135,000 on a misprinted lottery ticket. In February 2007, it

15990-427: Was established to protect the locks from a possible attack by Nazi German aircraft from the north. The recent development of long-range bombers increased fears of a sudden air raid. Military strategists studied polar projection maps, which indicated that the air distance from occupied Norway to the town was about the same as the distance from Norway to New York. That direct route of about 5,000 km (3,000 mi)

16120-419: Was followed by development of a fur trading post and larger settlement, as traders, trappers and Native Americans were attracted to the community. As the community had developed on both sides of the river, it was considered unified and part of Canada. After the War of 1812 between Great Britain and the United States, the border between Canada and the US was finally settled at the St. Mary's River. At that time,

16250-570: Was named "Canadian CEO of the year" in 2006 for his efforts. An offer to purchase ASI by the Essar Group (India) had been recommended by the ASI Board of Directors and was approved. The company was officially sold to the Essar Group in June 2007 for $ 1.6 billion. Forestry is also a major local industry. St. Mary's Paper has been closed and decommissioned, although it was reopened in June 2007 and operated for

16380-508: Was not public knowledge until two days later, when Brown's dismissal took effect. David Caplan , Ontario's minister responsible for OLG, intended to announce this firing on 26 March following the release of a report on OLG's situation by the provincial ombudsman André Marin . Marin criticized the OLG for being more fixated on profits than the integrity of games after a disproportionate number of lottery retailers or their families claimed winning tickets. Casino clients who recognize that they have

16510-688: Was seen to be a continued potential impediment to future military transportation within Canada. An all-Canadian rail route would bypass this. A CPR line was surveyed and gradually constructed along the north shore of Lake Huron, cutting through the La Cloche Mountains , while the Central Ontario -based Midland Railway of Canada also surveyed its own line, but became insolvent and collapsed shortly after. The Northern Railway of Canada , which had pushed northward from Toronto to Lake Simcoe , sought to push further to North Bay and then cut west under

16640-454: Was settled in 2002. The CBC's flagship newscast, The National , airs Sunday through Fridays at 10:00 p.m. local time (except in Newfoundland , where it airs at 10:30 p.m.) and Saturdays at 6:00 p.m. EST. Until October 2006, CBC owned-and-operated stations aired a second broadcast of the program at 11:00 p.m.; This later broadcast included only the main news portion of

16770-637: Was the largest to have passed such a resolution. It was the first to do so despite its sizable Franco-Ontarian population. Many political figures, including Brian Mulroney , Jean Chrétien and Ontario premier David Peterson , who had strongly condemned Premier Bourassa's use of the 'notwithstanding clause', also expressed their opposition to the Sault Ste. Marie resolution. Peterson and his successor as premier, Bob Rae , refused to meet with Mayor Fratesi on several subsequent occasions, even to discuss unrelated matters. The city had previously established French as an official language for government services, due to

16900-564: Was underway to eventually connect the Second Line East and Black Road intersection to the new four-lane section of Highway 17, which opened east of the city in 2007—however as of 2022, there has been no environmental impact assessment initiated by the Ministry of Transportation . The city plays an inherited role in marine transportation , with the locks in Michigan being an integral component of

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