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MEDIA RELEASE UNION OF ONTARIO INDIANS ************************* First Nation leader responds to budget Investments in social housing 'a good start,' Beaucage OTTAWA (January 27, 2009) – The federal budget certainly wasn't reflective of First Nations

NEWS RELEASE TONY MARTIN, MP ************************** No confidence in Harper to deliver on budget promises, says Martin 'Cooperative Liberal-NDP government ready to deliver real change' OTTAWA - (January 27) - Despite borrowing heavily from the pr

Tenaris Algoma Tubes today advised employees of a full shutdown of its Sault Ste. Marie manufacturing facility, effective for at least two weeks. Workers were given layoff notices effective February 1 to February 14, employees tell SooToday.

NEWS RELEASE DAVID ORAZIETTI, MPP DWIGHT DUNCAN, ONTARIO MINISTER OF FINANCE ************************* Orazietti welcomes federal stimulus package in today's budget Local MPP working to deliver federal resources for Sault Ste. Marie SAULT STE.

Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty is projecting a $33.7 billion deficit - the first in over a decade - as he tabled the 2009 budget in the House of Commons today.

OPP NEWS RELEASE ************************* Technology can be a good thing! SPRAGGE, ON - (January 27) - A lost snowmobiler was located on the trail with the assistance of her cell phone and GPS technology. On 22 January 2009 at approximately 1:30 a.

NEWS RELEASE DDI SEAMLESS CYLINDER INTERNATIONAL INC. ************************* DDI Seamless Cylinder International Inc. to close SAULT STE. MARIE, ON - (January 27) - DDI Seamless Cylinder International Inc.

Twenty-three-year-old Michael Jago II is dead and two Michigan State troopers are seriously injured after a two-vehicle crash on the outskirts of Newberry, Michigan, TV6 News reports.

U.S. novelist John Updike died this morning after battling lung cancer, U.S. networks report. Updike, who won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction, was the author of several best-selling books, including the Rabbit novels and The Witches of Eastwick .

OPP NEWS RELEASE ************************ Police investigating homicide in Wikwemikong Police make arrests WIKWEMIKONG, ON – (January 27) - Police have arrested three men from Wikwemikong in connection with the murder of a local man.