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by Stacey Lavallie AUNDECK OMNI KANING—A unique addictions treatment program that incorporates traditional First Nations elements as well as both addictions and mental counselling, developed by Kinoondidaa’gamig Treatment Home in Aundeck Omni Kaning (AOK), has enough youth on its waiting list to keep its beds full for years, program manager [...]

by Alicia McCutcheon WIKWEMIKONG—During the one-year memorial of his friend and partner in medicine, Dr. Jack Bailey shared in the sunrise ceremony at the medicine lodge at the Nahndahweh Tchigehgamig Wikwemikong Health Centre he and the late Ron Wakegijig worked so hard to develop. Following the ceremony (a full house) [...]

by Stacey Lavallie PROVIDENCE BAY—By the time the ribbon was cut, more than 200 different pairs of feet had trod over the soft sand of the Providence Bay beach and hundreds of eyes had soaked in the project online, courtesy of a live streaming Internet feed. Work started on the [...]

by Stacey Lavallie MANITOULIN—News that the Ontario Provincial Police’s (OPP) Manitoulin detachment may have lost funding for two officers shouldn’t alarm Island residents, Staff Sergeant Kevin Webb insists. “We’ll continue to have the same number of officers on the road,” Staff Sergeant Webb told The Expositor last week. “Where it [...]

by Alicia McCutcheon SOUTH BAYMOUTH—The MS Chi-Cheemaun will make its first trip of the season this Friday, May 4, sailing into port at 10:50 am after a long winter dockage in Owen Sound. The ferry makes its first trip from South Baymouth following the spring schedule, May 4 to June [...]

by Stacey Lavallie MANITOULIN—As one of his first tasks as Staff Sergeant of the four Manitoulin Island Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) detachments, Kevin Webb went from community to community, asking for residents and businesses to tell him their top concerns. Later on this month, he will be speaking about the [...]

by Stacey Lavallie SHEGUIANDAH—When Joanne Wade opened her door on a chilly November day more than a decade ago she found two police officers and a member of the clergy waiting for her, faces grim. Her 22-year-old son, Brent, was dead. While at work, his truck was hit by a [...]

by Alicia McCutcheon CARTER BAY—The 6,400 acres on the south shore of Manitoulin known as the Carter Bay Eco Development is for sale, listed for $3,750,000 by CBRE, a commercial real estate company, through a power of sale. A description of the property on the website reads, “Carter Bay Eco [...]

by Stacey Lavallie CANADA—Though the findings of a Federal Court Justice means a case regarding unequal funding for First Nations children will go before the Humans Rights Tribunal again, the Union of Ontario Indians (UOI) have concerns the process will drag on too long for kids already in the foster [...]

by Stacey Lavallie QUEEN’S PARK—Leaders from the provincial Liberal Party and the New Democratic Party (NDP) found a middle ground regarding changes to the 2012 budget on the afternoon of Monday, April 23, the day before the vote on the budget was scheduled to happen. This vote marks the first [...]