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Local law enforcement agencies will hit the streets over the next month in an effort to curb impaired driving in Sault Ste. Marie and areathis holiday season.Members of Sault Ste. Marie Police Service, Ontario Provincial Police, Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Anishinabek Police Service were checking vehicles on Bay Street Thursday to officially launch this yearrsquo Festive Reduc stanley taza e Impaired Driving Everywhere RIDE campaign, which runs from now until the new year.During the 2022 Festive RIDE Campaign, Sault Police and partner agencies stopped and checked 1,290 vehicles within the jurisdiction of the Sault Ste. Marie Police Service. Those checks resulted in three criminal charges and four Highway Traffic Act charges.When I started 32 years ago we were doing RIDE then, Sault Ste. Marie Police Service Traffic Sgt. Magnan told stanley cup reporters during the campaign launch. You have to keep doing it and [let the public] know that wersquo;re out there mdash; it could be any night, it could be anywhere.Magnan noted that itrsquo not all that uncommon for some RIDE checks to be conducted during the morning hours.If theyrsquo;re drunk at four in the morning, theyrsquo;re probably still under the influence at six or seven in the morning when theyrsquo;re heading to work, hesaid.Impaired driving involving drug use has been on the rise, Magnan said,in addition to instances wher stanley cup e drivers are impaired from a combination of drugs and alcohol.ld Reqj UPDATE: Walmart reopens after repairs
A federal government decision to terminate an agreement with provinces to fund new daycare spaces could force Algoma District School Board to take back 32 new daycare spaces that are being created in its facilities this year, trustees were told this week.Under Ontario s Best Start program, the board is establishing daycares in four schools in partnership with provincial agencies, Superintendent of Education Lucia Reece told the board.The Best Start program was expected to take 10 years to implement with federal transfer payments to the provinces at different phases through the program s duration.But the newly elected Conservative government decided it had a better plan and opted out next year with a year s notice to the provinces, said Boad Chair Wanda McQueen.This means the daycare spaces being created at East View, Park stanley thermos land, Echo Bay Central and St. Joseph Island Public Schools will only be funded by agencies outside the board for two years, McQueen said. This concerns us because we ve heard from parents that this is a great program and that they have needed it for their kids for a while, she said. No stanley italia w with the federal government cutting the funding, we re very concerned. We understand that they [the daycare spaces] should be able to be in place for two years.But other than that, we have no idea, said McQueen. She said that, because the board is only providing the space and has no money to fund operating costs, it may have to closer the new dayca stanley cup res when funding runs ou |