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LETTER: Instead of blue lights, why not try compassion?

LETTER: Instead of blue lights, why not try compassion?

With the infiltration of cheaper synthetic hyper potent opioids, users are dying alone in shame in dark alleyways and dirty washrooms. It's time for real help like safe injection sites, says reader
LETTER: Local doctors concerned about ferrochrome want you to know about our current cancer rates

LETTER: Local doctors concerned about ferrochrome want you to know about our current cancer rates

52 local doctors want to know exactly what Noront plans to do to protect Saultites from Chromium VI should they commission a ferrochrome smelter in the city
Mayor responds to physician concerns over ferrochrome production facility

Mayor responds to physician concerns over ferrochrome production facility

Project assessment 'unquestionably includes understanding any potential harm to our environment, our health and our well-being, and the efforts to either mitigate, minimize or eliminate any identified risks,' the mayor writes
Physicians may leave if ferrochrome facility comes to the Sault, letter threatens

Physicians may leave if ferrochrome facility comes to the Sault, letter threatens

'We are acutely aware of the highly toxic by-products of the proposed facility,' states a letter submitted on behalf of concerned physicians
LETTER: post secondary students closely watching platforms

LETTER: post secondary students closely watching platforms

Post secondary leaders across the province of Ontario are intent on getting students out to vote in October
LETTER: Ever try to swim all five Great Lakes in the same day? (10 photos)

LETTER: Ever try to swim all five Great Lakes in the same day? (10 photos)

Connie and Rick Hornblower managed it in 14 hours
LETTER: Protecting steelworkers - why, and how, we’re doing it

LETTER: Protecting steelworkers - why, and how, we’re doing it

Sault MP Terry Sheehan believes 'that workers and families shouldn’t have to wait months and months to feel protected'
LETTER: An argument in favour of out-of-country OHIP coverage

LETTER: An argument in favour of out-of-country OHIP coverage

Dave James thinks the province should be restoring health coverage for travellers, not doing away with it
LETTER: We citizens need to help

LETTER: We citizens need to help

Mark Brown is asking the citizens of Sault Ste. Marie to show support for enough money from the provincial government to fund a Level III Addiction Treatment Centre at Sault Area Hospital
LETTER: How many indoor hockey rinks do Sault taxpayers really need?

LETTER: How many indoor hockey rinks do Sault taxpayers really need?

And while we're counting, how many libraries? reader asks