Keep up to date with the articles and interviews involving Mayor Provenzano and the City of Sault Ste. Marie, along with news releases issued by the City and community partners.
July 2022
- Sault Star: Sault Transit’s On-Demand app secured for three years
- SooToday: Sault’s Youth Hub one step closer to reality
- Sault Star: Youth hub gets cash and thumbs up from Sault city council
- SooToday: Immigrants get acquainted at Newcomers Day Fair
- SooToday: Every Breakfast Counts back for fifth year of service
- Sault Online: City Council Gives a Thumbs Up to New Youth Hub
- SooToday: Splash pad is green-lit for west end
- CTV Northern Ontario: Harvest Algoma launches summer breakfast program
- SooToday: Back at home, artist’s latest work a nod to ancestors
- Sault Star: Pridefest begins with annual flag-raising ceremony and Pride walk
- SooToday: Pridefest 2022 kicks off with ceremonial flag raising
- SooToday: Algoma Steel donates $1 million to withdrawal management facility
- Sault Star: Algoma Steel contributes $1M to SAH residential withdrawal management facility construction
- Sault Star: Lack of funding, growing wait lists puts Intensive Day Treatment Program on hold
- Sault Online: Sault Ste. Marie sets navy record
- Sault Star: Art submissions wanted for Northern Community Centre
- Sault Online: Welcoming Newcomers to our Community!
- Sault Online: “Rainbow Warriors” kickoff Sault PrideFest
- Sault Star: Sault Search and Rescue gets sky-high fundraiser
- Sault Online: Downtown Street Party Returns!
- Sault Star: Council wants to clamp down on derelict property owners
June 2022
- Sault Star: Canada Day festivities return at Roberta Bondar Park Tent Pavilion
- Sault Star: Sault Transit launches summer programs
- SooToday: City remains engaged with officials regarding oil spill
- SooToday: Summer Moon wraps up with high energy concert
- SooToday: Participants gather for 3rd annual brain tumour walk
- Sault Online: The Summer Moon Fest is just what the City needs
- Sault Star: Scholarships for Sault students launched
- Sault Star: Algoma Steel workers get $150.7M in profit sharing
- SooToday: Every Breakfast Counts launches its programming in July
- Sault Online: Statement from Mayor Provenzano on Ontario General Election
- Sault Online: Draft Official Plan Public Consultation
- Sault Star: Mayor Provenzano brands oil spill ‘very disconcerting’
- SooToday: Record enrolment allowing for future investment: Algoma U
- SooToday: City seeks public feedback on streetscape improvements
- Sault Online: Summer Moon Festival Mural Projects Revitalizing Downtown
- Sault Star: City needs road map for transition to electric vehicles: Councillors
May 2022
- Sault Star: Making music at youth arts gala
- Sault Star: City recognizes Queenstown IDA Drug Mart
- SooToday: Why Provenzano worries about not seeking a third term as mayor
- Sault Online: Justice Stortini receives 2020 medal of merit from City
- Sault Star: Scholarships for Sault students launched
- SooToday: City Council gives final go-ahead to downtown plaza
April 2022
- Sault Star: City to lease out revenue-generating space at Northern Community Centre twin pad
- SooToday: City Council approves construction of new access road to the P-patch
- Sault Online: Almost 100 IT and professional jobs now available in Sault Ste. Marie
- Sault Star: City announces retirement of senior staffer
- Sault Online: Ermatinger Clergue National Historic Site and Entomica host egg hunts and more
- Sault Star: Council takes steps to hold public hearing on extension of rental housing incentive program
- SooToday: City, Garden River First Nation partner to deliver solar energy information webinar
- Sault Star: Housing fund has potential for Sault: CAO
- SooToday: City leaders use Earth Day to reflect on environmental progress and promises
- Sault Online: Council Will Hear Plans on The Royal Canadian Legion Residential Tower
- Sault Star: Algoma U backs 1,200 jobs, contributes $100M to Sault economy: Study
- Sault Online: Mayor says successes belong to more than just him
- Sault Star: Passchendaele Road project to continue with city picking up full cost
March 2022
- SooToday: Large prayer service held for Ukraine at local church
- SooToday: Provenzano wishes more could’ve been done on opioid crisis; excited about plans for downtown
- Sault Online: City planning to be ready should government require assistance
- Sault Online: Community marches in support of Ukraine
- Sault Star: ‘Prayer for Ukraine’: St. Mary’s Ukrainian Church Sunday service stirs emotions
- Sault Online: Science North brings interactive exhibit to the Sault
- Sault Online: Gerrie, Provenzano support upcoming border opening
- SooToday: Councillors vote for peace in Ukraine
- SooToday: Mayor Provenzano wants us to have our very own lepidopterarium!
February 2022
- SooToday: The toughest question Roberta Bondar was ever asked
- Sault Star: Russian flag removal from in front of Civic Centre ‘appropriate decision’: Mayor
- Sault Star: City adds wayfinding app to increase accessibility for visually impaired
- Sault Online: Local Sikh Community Delivers Care Packages
- Sault Star: City staff directed to create community improvement plan to clear derelict buildings
- SooToday: City Hall pulls down Russian flag in solidarity with Ukraine
- Sault Star: City will continue to defend right for open tender process
- Sault Online: Habitat for Humanity becomes Sault’s third certified living wage employer
January 2022
- SooToday: Provenzano begins his exit from municipal duties
- Sault Star: Revised police service budget results in levy dip for taxpayers’
- Sault Star: Provenzano leaves border COVID testing regulations to feds, health experts
- SooToday: ‘We want to get this poison off the street,’ says police chief of drugs, weapons
- Sault Star: 30 years later, Bondar wants man back on the moon
- Sault Star: Growing Sault population key element to FutureSSM plan
- Sault Online: Bon Soo Winter Carnival Will Be Low Key Event For Second Year in a Row
- SooToday: Two city councillors push to pink-slip all the little engines
- Sault Online: Do You Want To Sit On These City Committees?
- Sault Star: Council pegs Hub Trail James Street link as ‘top priority’
- Sault Star: Algoma U, university grads have $337M impact on Sault
December 2021
- SooToday: Barbara Nolan named 2021 Medal of Merit recipient
- Sault Star: Barbara Nolan awarded Medal of Merit for language efforts
- Sault Online: And the 2021 Medal of Merit recipient is…
- SooToday: Mayor calls on province to expand third-dose rollout
- Sault Online: City to launch downtown safety initiative
- Sault Online: Sault Ste Marie Christmas lights 2021
- SooToday: James Street emerging as priority in active transportation plan
- Sault Star: City to launch downtown safety initiative
- SooToday: City Council sets 2022 budget
- Sault Online: Algoma Vaccination Support Council Supporting Staff and Volunteers of Vaccine Clinics During the Holiday Season
- SooToday: City councillors signal approval for Algoma Public Health, Social Services budgets
- Sault Star: Multi-year accessibility plan gets thumbs up from council
November 2021
- SooToday: Mayor invites new minister of mental health and addictions to see our situation firsthand
- SooToday: Big crowd welcomes eight new pickleball courts in the city’s west end
- Sault Star: Levy board responsible for most of projected property tax increase
- Sault Online: 2021 Santa Clause Parade
- SooToday: Sault Ste. Marie gets Muslim cemetery
- SooToday: Photo exhibit reflects faces of French-speaking immigrants to Sault Ste. Marie
- Sault Online: Winners announced for Mayor’s Christmas Card Competition
- Sault Star: Behavioural changes needed to bring COVID numbers down: Mayor
- Sault Online: Council asks for a Hallowe’en award competition
- SooToday: Talks underway to build 30-unit facility to address Indigenous homelessness in the Sault
- SooToday: Remembrance Day – Sault mother remembers son who died in Afghanistan
- Sault Online: Live Broadcast Replay – Remembrance Day Ceremonies
- Sault Online: Community Tree Lighting and Moonlight Magic update
- SooToday: City asks Michigan Sault to join us in pledging net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050
- SooToday: Mayor commits to make 60-unit supportive housing project happen
October 2021
- SooToday: Community Tree Lighting celebration returns to downtown
- SooToday: VIDEO: Budget interview looks at plaza, policing and more
- Sault Star: Power to the people – Benefits of energy retrofits promoted in joint community webinars
- Sault Online: Sault Ste. Marie Budget 2022 Virtual Town Hall
- SooToday: City seeks public input on budget
- Sault Star: City and partners need to work on planning events for Downtown Plaza immediately to ensure success
- Sault Online: Vigilantism discouraged by Mayor Provenzano, police and experts
- SooToday: Sault’s Legion Branch 25 to build veteran housing project (update, 5 photos)
- News Release: Over 10,000 meals delivered through Every Breakfast Counts
- Sault Star: Local start-up business wins pitch competition; event hosted by Millworks Centre for Entrepreneurship
- SooToday: Water agency task force pitching in the flow
September 2021
- SooToday: Shirley Roach remembered as ‘pillar of strength’ for residential school survivors
- Sault Star: Community’s vision to be reflected in city’s new Official Plan
- SooToday: Construction of downtown plaza expected to start next spring
- News Release: City of Sault Ste. Marie commemorates National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
- SooToday: Local business donates $200K to Downtown Plaza project
- News Release: Soo Mill contributes $50,000 to Downtown Plaza
- SooToday: Former east-end school site slated for redevelopment (9 council briefs)
- Sault Star: Webinar to discuss small business tax subclass
- News Release: Mayor Provenzano statement on Federal Election results
August 2021
- SooToday: Memorial wall recognizes lives lost to mental health, addictions struggles
- SooToday: City, advocacy group to honour those lost to opioid epidemic
- Sault Online: Memorial Wall revealed to the public
- CBC: Sault Ste. Marie’s mayor is unhappy with back-to-school safety
- CTV Northern Ontario: Sault Ste. Marie drug strategy group marks International Overdose Awareness Day
- SooToday: Wildfire evacuee reception team delivered ‘1,000 per cent,’ says choked-up Provenzano
- Sault Online: Mayor Provenzano explains city position on vaccination policy
- SooToday: Local students awarded Mayor’s Youth Advisory Council Learning Scholarships
- Sault Star: FedNor now a standalone agency for the North
- SooToday: First look at what they’re planning at the new Mill Market
July 2021
- SooToday: Provenzano praises your pandemic performance
- SooToday: Northern mayors ask province, feds for help in opioid battle
- SooToday: Mayor marks National Indigenous Peoples Day
- Sault Online: Mayor’s Youth Advisory Council unveils Youth Art Gala video
- Sault Star: AWIC to pen study on the changing workforce and what it will mean to employers
- Sault Star: City examines ‘hub’ for business, entrepreneurs, arts and students
- Sault Star: ‘A sense of safe space’: Sault Pride touts value of inclusion in face of pandemic restraints
- SooToday: Today’s Algoma Steel funding the largest in city’s history, says mayor
- Sault Star: Students step up for Every Breakfast Counts
June 2021
- Sault Star: Every Breakfast Counts feeds kids
- SooToday: Mayor supports new police headquarters building downtown
- SooToday: Young, passionate Saultites wanted for Mayor’s Youth Advisory Council
- Sault Star: Consider getting vaccinated: Mayor
- Sault Star: Downtown safety strategy proposed
- SooToday: Islamic Association to host vigil in honour of London attack victims
- CTV: Feds eyeing Canada-U.S. land border reopening
- SooToday: Councillors order twin-pad McMeeken, with the works
- Sault Star: Property standards amendment designed to prevent safety hazards
- Sault Online: With Provincial contribution, McMeeken replacement to be built
- SooToday: Northern mayors ask province, feds for help in opioid battle
- Sault Online: City to launch two new streams to its Tourism Development Fund
- Sault Star: Go-big twin-pad plan is the only way to build it
- Sault Star: Continued border closure needed until more vaccinated, mayor says
- SooToday: Spurred by grieving over residential schools, mayor introduces land acknowledgment
- Sault Online: New residents offered an incentive to move and work here
- CTV: Northern Ontario mayors call for help to deal with opioid, addictions crisis
- Sault Star: City offers new residents incentive to move here
May 2021
- Sault Star: Twin Pad project gets approval with $18 M from province
- CTV: Sault Ste. Marie council approves revised $8.4M downtown plaza
- Sault Online: Mike Zuke skating rink one step closer to reality
- SooToday: Memorial wall proposed for Sault victims of opioid crisis
- Sault Online: Mayor Provenzano Declares this week Young Professionals Week
- Sault Star: Downtown Plaza approved: Costs blossomed to max, council warns staff
- SooToday: Warrior women to walk 27 kms for brain tumour research (2 photos)
- Sault Star: April violence troubles Provenzano
- Sault Star: Huron Central Railway to keep rolling – funding expected
- CBC: Ontario creating new addiction and mental health centre in Sault Ste. Marie
- SooToday: Union bosses, mayor react to Algoma Steel merger
April 2021
- Sault Star: FedNor to get equal, standalone status
- SooToday: Mayor urges residents to avoid public gatherings
- Sault Online: What’s With The Big Blue Chairs Around Town?
- SooToday: Mayor says property taxes could rise if province consolidates public health units
- Sault Online: City Provides Tax Relief During COVID-19 Pandemic
- CBC: Ontario health unit merger is still a bad idea for the north, mayors say
- Sault Online: Mayor speaks out against planned rally
- Sault Star: City examines ways to increase voter turnout
March 2021
- SooToday: Provenzano sounds alarm about ‘she-cession’
- Sault Online: Statement from Mayor Provenzano on the National Day of Observance
- SooToday: Application approved to build Sault Smart Grid, a first for Canada: PUC
- SooToday: Mayor says crime, bad condition of roads must be addressed
- CTV: Northern Ontario mayors want changes at FedNor
- Sault Online: SSM Chamber of Commerce and STRIVE Young Professionals Group establish the Algoma Vaccination Support Council
- SooToday: Northern mayors urge feds to reconsider handgun legislation
- SooToday: City receives $1 million in additional pandemic relief funding
- SooToday: New energy program to help SAH save on its electricity bill: PUC
- SooToday: Sault designated as foreign trade zone point
- Sault Star: Sheehan supports NOLUM’s request to upgrade FedNor
February 2021
- Sault Star: Provenzano talks business
- Sault Star: GFL to transform to COVID vaccination hub next week
- Sault Online: Mayor Provenzano loses wager, wears jersey
- Sault Star: Will wastewater alert us to COVID community health concerns?
- SooToday: Annexation may not be so ‘win-win’ as claimed by mystery flyer about Prince Township
- Sault Star: City council lobbies for small business regional reopenings
- SooToday: City gives us a COVID-19 break
- Sault Online: Nominations invited for the Sault Ste. Marie Walk of Fame
- Sault Star: Council supports CHAAT’s call for mental health and addictions action
- Sault Star: City to budget for ‘green’ vehicles for 2022 and beyond
January 2021
- Sault Online: COVID-19 Message from Mayor Provenzano
- Sault Star: Council takes next step in Twin Pad facility
- SooToday: Sault Ste. Marie to get special docks for kayaking, canoeing noobies
- CTV Northern Ontario: More parents in Sault Ste. Marie opting for virtual learning as COVID cases surge
- SooToday: City remembers former Mayor
- Sault Star: ‘Young constituent’ leads change on Finn Hill
- Sault Online: Sault Fire Services welcomes new firefighter
- SooToday: City hopes to create new position to run immigration pilot program
- News Release: City announces new Director of Economic Development
- SooToday: Mayor applauds APH’s reversal on back-to-school plans
- CTV Northern Ontario: Despite pandemic, Sault Ste. Marie jobless numbers steady
- SooToday: ‘A dark day in American history’ – Mayor Provenzano on Capitol riot
December 2020
- SooToday: ‘Brighter days are ahead,’ mayor says as unprecedented year wraps up
- News Release: Season’s greetings from Mayor Provenzano
- SooToday: Mayor Provenzano, local YMCA among APH’s Public Health Champions
- Sault Star: Council sharpens pencil to 1.57% levy increase; levy boards add another 2.02%
- Sault Online: Council approves 2021 budget
- News Release: 2020 Medal of Merit recipients announced
- News Release: All City-run outdoor skating facilities now open
- Sault Star: Twin Pad arena approved in principle
- SooToday: Two Sault newcomers welcomed by local, federal leaders
- News Release: City Council approves community greenhouse gas reduction plan
- News Release: Winners announced for Christmas Lighting Awards
- Sault Star: Water rate increase ‘much lower’ than expected: PUC
- Sault Star: Former mayor, MP Ron Irwin dies
- SooToday: Former Sault Mayor, MP Ron Irwin dies at age 84
- Sault Online: Extension reached with Huron Central Railway
- SooToday: Invited to an indoor Christmas party? Walk away, mayor urges
- Sault Star: Neighbourhood Resource Centre gets new home
- News Release: Free Downtown parking this holiday season
- Sault Star: HCR deadline approaches, talks continue
- SooToday: City Council gives go-ahead to twin-pad McMeeken replacement
- SooToday: Sault gets a transport full of masks
- SooToday: City receives $351,000 in government pandemic relief
- SooToday: With or without a new owner, tour train expected to run next year
November 2020
- SooToday: Look what your city is doing with a hundred tax dollars!
- News Release: Community partners kick off the holiday season
- News Release: Winners announced for Mayor’s Christmas Card Competition
- SooToday: City gets to work on Charlie Lachapelle-Smith’s Finn Hill vision
- SooToday: Mayor issues statement about new COVID-19 cases
- Sault Star: City to launch new, refined funding envelope
- Sault Online: “Build This City” Program Aims To Address Aging Labour Force
- News Release: Applications being accepted for Boards and Committees
- Sault Star: Half of preliminary levy increase attributed to city operations
- Sault Online: Remember – Sgt. Merrifield a Victoria Cross recipient
- SooToday: Mayor asks prime minister to press pause on bridge-crossing loopholes
- Sault Online: Replay – REPLAY: Remembrance Day Ceremony
- Sault Star: Increasing downtown safety on the radar
- News Release: Public Zoom Meeting – Building Permit Fees
- Sault Star: Local business holding its own as pandemic continues
- SooToday: SAH – Downtown addictions and mental health bus coming, Level 3 detox facility ask scaled back
- Sault Star: SAH improves addiction, mental health services but still seeks Withdrawal Management facility
October 2020
- SooToday: Two Sault applications approved for Northern Immigration Pilot project
- Sault Star: City receives OMPF grant allocation for 2021
- Sault Online: PLATO Testing – Indigenous participation in the tech sector
- SooToday: Want to design the Mayor’s Christmas card? Here’s how
- News Release: Mayor’s Christmas Card Competition
- SooToday: Poppy Campaign kicks off, Legion hopes for good year despite COVID
- Sault Online: Poppy Fund wreaths pay for veterans care
- Sault Star: New AWIC survey hopes to identify ongoing COVID issues for business
- Sault Star: Minister tags HCR’s value to Northern economy
- SooToday: You asked, the city answered: Budget 2021
- Sault Star: Approved: first step to ‘legalize’ triplex completed
- SooToday: Downtown plaza will shine best at night
- SooToday: GFL Memorial Gardens $1 million makeover complete
- Sault Star: City staff to develop feasibility plan for Blake Avenue upgrade
- SooToday: How to fix Jamestown, by the Honourable Ray Stortini
- Sault Star: Stakeholders making ‘substantial progress’ on Walmart lane issue
- SooToday: First look at what they’re proposing for the McMeeken arena
- SooToday: Discourage friends, family from visiting from other parts of Ontario, urges mayor
- SooToday: Flooding, downtown plaza concerns and the state of our reserves: Mayor and CAO answer your questions
- SooToday: Check out these kickass new Sault Transit buses
- Sault Star: City gears up for 2021 budget deliberations
- Sault Star: Border to stay closed to non-essential traffic
September 2020
- Sault Star: Ronald A. Irwin Civic Centre dedication officially unveiled
- SooToday: Sault honours Ronald A. Irwin
- News Release: City Hall renamed in honour of former Mayor Ronald A. Irwin
- Sault Online: Integrated Municipal Enforcement Team Formed
- Sault Star: Downtown plaza ‘vision’ to be unveiled to city council
- News Release: Downtown Plaza Public Workshop
- SooToday: Should our twin-pad arena project be scaled down to just one pad?
- Sault Star: Council to ponder McMeeken arena replacement dilemma
- Sault Online: City Council moves forward on Civic Plaza
- SooToday: Seven flags that Sault Ste. Marie is proud of!
- SooToday: City invites residents to submit virtual budget feedback
- News Release: Budget 2021 Virtual Feedback: now open
- News Release: City launches online tax services
- SooToday: Sault Ste. Marie wants national water agency located here
- Mayor Provenzano issues caution about Ontario’s highest-ever COVID-19 numbers
August 2020
- News Release: City unveils Pride crosswalk
- SooToday: New rainbow crosswalk ‘stands against discrimination and hate’: Sault Pride chair
- SooToday: Tracing the roots of Sault Ste. Marie’s LGBT history
- Sault Star: Algoma continues to fare well with flattening COVID-19 curve
- Sault Online: City Throws In Support For Memorial Cup Bid
- SooToday: Province rejects McMeeken arena project funding; council to review options
- Sault Star: ‘Favourable endorsement’ for Level 3 facility still sought: SAH
- Sault Online: Council set to approve new Northern Transfer Point with Sault College
- News Release: Applicants sought for Mayor’s Youth Advisory Council
- SooToday: Memorial Cup bid gets some help while the Gardens gets some upgrades
- Sault Star: ‘Smart park’ clever way to whip up investment: Report
- SooToday: Sault Ste. Marie receives $5.4 million in municipal COVID-19 relief
- SooToday: City looking to fix broadband agonies in Ward 5
- Sault Online: Ward 5 Next-Gen Broadband Internet
- News Release: Promotional opportunity for local artists
July 2020
- News Release: Major investment in Sault Transit
- Sault Star: City signs historic declaration with Indian Friendship Centre
- SooToday: Mayor, health unit discuss imposing mandatory indoor face masks
- Sault Star: COVID spike can happen ‘in a heartbeat,’ APH says
- Sault Online: New Completion Date Set For Civic Centre Upgrades
- SooToday: Sault councillors to vote on supporting border closure
- Sault Online: Downtown Could Finally See a Drug Store Again
- SooToday: Charlie, age 9, got tired walking up Finn Hill. So here’s what he did…
- SooToday: Rainbow crosswalk proposed to support LGBTQ2S+ communities
- News Release: Statement from Mayor Provenzano
- Sault Star: Sault focuses tourism marketing campaigns in Ontario, Quebec
- News Release: Nine students start businesses under Summer Company program
- SooToday: Nine-year-old accessibility activist wins high praise from City Council
- SooToday: Mayor issues statement on mandatory mask instructions
- News Release: Expansion of programming at John Rhodes Community Centre
- News Release: Splash Pad to open on Saturday
June 2020
- Sault Star: Mayor addresses Class of 2020 in Facebook video post
- SooToday: Councillors push seven new cycling routes for completion this year
- News Release: City announces new Canada Day decorating contest
- Sault Online: City Aims At Improving Traffic Flow
- Sault Star: City continues helping businesses during reopening
- Sault Star: Community should look toward ‘how’ it will reopen safely: Mayor
- News Release: Interactive history app launches in Sault Ste. Marie
- SooToday: Local elected leaders hopeful Sault will reopen soon
- News Release: Annual Hub Trail Festival extended to include month long Scavenger Hunt
- News Release: City provides update on outdoor patios
- Sault Star: Councillor urges continual lobbying for improved broadband service
- SooToday: ‘I have fallen short,’ mayor says in Black Lives Matter speech
- News Release: City adjusts traditional Canada Day festivities, encourages virtual celebrations instead
- SooToday: City awards $31-million contract for sewage treatment plant upgrade
- News Release: City launches COVID-19 Community Heroes initiative
- SooToday: Every Breakfast Counts program still a go despite COVID-19
- News Release: Every Breakfast Counts launches 2020 programming
- SooToday: Local drug supply is ‘tainted and poisoned,’ mayor warns
May 2020
- SooToday: Mayor weighs in on backyard fires, boat launches and Mother’s Day
- Sault Star: International border to remain closed until at least June 21
- Sault Online: Joint Statement Issued By Our Elected Officials
- Sault Star: City nets maximum funding for Trunk Road resurfacing project
- SooToday: Mayor concerned about hard-hit local tourism industry
- Sault Online: PUC Applauds Ontario Government’s Decision to Extend Suspension of Time-of-Use Rates
- News Release: City offering digital services to seniors
- Sault Star: Council proceeds with more than $50M of capital works projects
- SooToday: City recruits marauding Vikings to spread word about Sault Ste. Marie
- Sault Star: City wants Vikings clip to promote filmmaking industry marketing
- News Release: City provides reopening reference guide to local businesses
- SooToday: Proposal could more than quadruple size of Hiawatha recreation centre
- Sault Star: As economy reopens, social distancing becomes more important: Officials
- SooToday: Leaders asked ‘when can we go back to the park?’
- SooToday: Sault Ste. Marie’s mayor pleads: Let’s not be like Toronto!
- SooToday: What your post-coronavirus City Council is going to look like
- SooToday: Saultites go grey for brain tumour awareness
April 2020
- News Release: Messages of encouragement from notable community members
- SooToday: Mayor Christian Provenzano answers your questions on the COVID-19 crisis
- Sault Star: Survey to help understand COVID-19 impact on local business
- SooToday: Hospital announcement likely this weekend, Sault mayor says
- Sault Star: GFL to be used as alternate hospital site – if needed
- Sault Online: Thank You to Our SAH Healthcare Workers!
- News Release: City provides tax relief during COVID-19 pandemic
- Sault Online: COVID-19: A Northern Helping Hand
- News Release: City supporting businesses through pandemic
- SooToday: The mayor answers more of your COVID-19 questions
- Sault Star: Council gives taxpayers a break – sewer surcharge to be suspended from April, May PUC bills
- News Release: Statement from Mayor Provenzano
- SooToday: Councillor proposes siphoning sewer surcharge for pandemic relief
- News Release: New website launched featuring COVID-19 resources in Algoma region
- News Release: Easter message from Mayor Provenzano
- SooToday: Mayor discusses yard waste pick up
- SooToday: You don’t have to pay the sewer surcharge on your April or May PUC bills
March 2020
- SooToday: Statement from Mayor Provenzano on the region’s first confirmed case of COVID-19
- SooToday: Sault, Algoma Public Health officials address media as first COVID-19 case confirmed
- SooToday: Civic Centre to be re-named after former mayor
- Sault Star: Civic Centre to commemorate Ron Irwin
- Northern Ontario Business: Sault grocer doing good in the community
- Sault Star: Grocer 4 Good feeds residents, trains workers
- SooToday: City stands with Indigenous people to denounce racism
- Sault Star: Workshop held to set City’s strategic direction
- SooToday: Could region become ‘the mountain biking capital of Ontario?’
February 2020
- SooToday: New bike-commuter routes to be built this summer
- SooToday: Check out the new video scoreboard at GFL Memorial Gardens!
- SooToday: Open house planned as part of greenhouse gas emissions inventory report
January 2020
- Sault Star: Sault one of three communities to launch Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot
- CTV Northern Ontario: CTV Northern Ontario’s Tony Ryma talks to Sault Ste. Marie Christian Provenzano about the city’s challenges and opportunities
- Sault Star: Time for Algoma U and Sault College to develop spectacular community project
- National Post: LBMX Opens Software Development Office in Sault Ste. Marie
- Sault Star: Irwin commemoration committee holds first meeting
- Sault Star: Mayor wants council to back plan to fund post-secondary institution, community initiatives
- Sault Star: Sault is top friendly Canadian city
- Sault Star: ‘Stable’ OMPF funding eases the financial burden for Sault Ste. Marie
- Sault Star: MacDonald Avenue development receives nod from council
December 2019
- News Release: New Year’s message from Mayor Provenzano
- SooToday: City names Lt.-Col. Knox this year’s Medal of Merit recipient
- Sault Star: Reserve unit’s ‘tremendous champion’ honoured
- News Release: Council approves 2020 Budget
- Sault Star: City waits for smelter study: MAYOR
- SooToday: Sault’s new Indian grocery store aims to bridge the gap
- Sault Star: Council approves new wayfinding plan
November 2019
- Sault Star: New plan unveiled for Sault’s EDC, tourism division
- SooToday: Mayor, councillors start countdown to Giving Tuesday
- ONNtv: Moonlight Magic lights up downtown
- SooToday: Moonlight Magic kicks off holiday season in the Sault
- Sault Star: Council to move ahead with Downtown Civic Plaza contract
- Sault Online: City’s Mayor of the Day Joins Council Meeting
- Sault Star: Pilot project immigration pilot officially kicked off for Sault Ste. Marie
- SooToday: Library set to turn the page with new location
- Sault Star: Council gets first look at 2020 budget
- SooToday: Mayor Provenzano unlocks love at Group Health Centre
- Sault Star: Parking app for downtown spaces launches
- SooToday: Remembrance Day ceremonies at GFL Memorial Gardens
- Sault Star: On Demand Sunday night transit pilot gaining steam
- SooToday: Métis community honours legacy of Louis Riel
October 2019
- Sault Star: Labour market boost is top job: Provenzano
- SooToday: Ridesharing gets smooth ride through City Council
- CTV Northern Ontario: 5th annual National Building Reconciliation
- Sault Star: For the people, for the pizza, Bubinas is Mayor for a Day
- News Release: Statement from Mayor Provenzano on Federal Election results
- SooToday: Helena Bubinas happy to have pizza with the mayor
- SooToday: Mayor homilizes about bacon. And bunch of other stuff
- Sault Star ‘Momentum going’ for reconciliation
- Sault Star: Council embarks upon process to ‘tweak’ strategic plan
- SooToday: Public weighs in on potential Jamestown improvements
September 2019
- SooToday: Sault’s credit rating boosted, analyst applauds efforts to lure immigrants
- Sault Star: Bawating Urban Indigenous Hub and housing proposed for Gateway site
- SooToday: Urban indigenous hub, housing development planned for Gateway site
- CTV Northern Ontario: Plans for vacant land in Sault Ste. Marie
- Sault Star: Report concludes Sault successful retaining immigrants
- ONNPoint: Community leaders
- CBC News: Sault Ste. Marie seeking laid-off Thunder Bay Bombardier workers
- Sault Star: Website indicates high interest in Sault Ste. Marie
- Sault Star: Mayor, police chief are new university governors
- ONNtv: NOBA’s back in Sault Ste. Marie
- Sault Star: Noront inks land, engineering agreements
- SooToday: Ferrochrome production site selected, with 99-year lease on the table
- Sault Star: Thousands of breakfasts served up to children
- SooToday: 6,300 meals distributed through Every Breakfast Counts
- SooToday: Northern Ontario Business Awards return to the Sault
- Sault Star: Council provides one-time funding to Entomica
- SooToday: Sault sets stage for greenhouse gas emissions inventory, reduction targets
- Sault Star: Cancer cruelest ‘when it affects our children’
August 2019
- SooToday: Ontario Human Rights Commissioner lauds local efforts at reconciliation
- Sault Star: Sault spearheads reconciliation
- Sault Star: Council backs downtown plaza
- SooToday: Provenzano raises the bar for this year’s state-of-the-city address
- SooToday: City unveils proposal for $6.6 million downtown plaza
- CTV Northern Ontario: Sault Downtown plaza project
- Sault Online: Council to Move Ahead with Plaza Plans
- SooToday: City wants more downtown patios
- Sault Online: Northern Think Hub opens in the Sault
- SooToday: Reduced services…or higher taxes? One of these two things could happen, mayor says
- Sault Star: Transit set to launch Sunday night On Demand service
- Sault Star: White sees bright future for Sault Ste. Marie
- Sault Star: Science North expands to Sault
July 2019
- Sault Star: Private investment indicates strong downtown
- SooToday: Young, passionate Saultites wanted for mayor’s youth council
- Sault Star: City urges province to open up recreation infrastructure funding stream
- SooToday: City appoints new Chief Administrative Officer
- Sault Star: Tenaris makes investment into Sault mill; SIF provides $16 M
- SooToday: Raising the Pride flag, remembering Kristy
- CTV Northern Ontario: Many were out in Sault Ste. Marie to kick off the city’s Pridefest
- Sault Star: ‘More we can do’ with murals downtown
- Sault Online: Rotaryfest Kicks Off!
- SooToday: Poutine Feast may be a keeper
- SooToday: Neighbourhood Resource Centre throws street party for fifth anniversary
- Sault Star: ‘Helpful resource’ downtown marks five years
- Sault Star: ‘It’s all about the kids’
- Sault Star: ‘One of the largest crowds I’ve seen’
- Sault This Week: City, DTA work on their cruise ship welcome
- SooToday: Facility tour helps assess city’s infrastructure needs
- Sault Star: Province needs to open infrastructure application process, feds say
June 2019
- SooToday: National Anishinaabe Day celebrated at Whitefish Island
- ONNtv: Every Breakfast Counts launch
- CTV Northern Ontario: City of Sault Ste. Marie launches an effort to help newcomers feel welcome and learn about the community
- SooToday: Every Breakfast Counts bringing nutritious meals to kids this summer
- Sault Star: Children’s breakfast program launches July 2
- Sault Star: Council’s out-of-the-box ideas refreshing
- SooToday: New Algoma Steel boss details $300 million in capital improvements
- SooToday: City appoints new chief administrative officer
- Sault Star: Long-time city employee named new CAO
- Sault Star: Sault selected for immigration pilot project
- SooToday: City pushes to keep Algoma Docks project alive
- Sault Star: Green Team focuses on plastics
- Sault Star: Task force to target remote workers
- SooToday: Sault ready to welcome skilled workers under new pilot announced today, says Immigration minister
- Sault Star: ‘Engaged’ residents discuss variety of transportation issues
- SooToday: Jurassic Park SSM erupts for historic Raptors win (10 photos)
- Sault Star Soo-rassic Park’s a win for fans
- Sault Star: Transit riders give thumbs up to Northern Transfer Station
- Sault Star: Where you belong
- Sault Online: VIDEO: Sault Gets Electric for Raptors Historic Win
- SaultOnline: Mayor’s Youth Advisory Council wants to know what you want to watch
- Sault Star: Sault Ste. Marie Jurassic Park is back for Game 6
- Sault Star: Water flows at splash pad
- Sault Online: Bellevue Splash Pad Officially Opens!
- Sault Star: Street art ‘really good’ for Sault’s downtown
- Sault Star: Pianos are ‘cool’ addition to downtown
- SooToday: VIDEO: Meet the man behind the city’s new mural
- Sault Star: PUC acquisition expands N. Ont. reach
- SooToday: PUC announces acquisition of Red Lake waterworks
- Sault Star: Revised Bay Street project to move ahead
- SooToday: Two to be inducted in Sault Ste. Marie Sports Hall of Fame this month
May 2019
- Sault Star: New city logo boasts ‘modern, progressive community’
- CTV Northern Ontario: U.S. lifts Canadian steel and aluminum tariffs
- Sault Star: ‘Now we’re back to where we need to be’
- Sault Star: You’re invited to ParticipACTION
- SooToday: Finnish ferrochrome plant inspired Noront, Finland’s ambassador says
- SooToday: Canoes for Conservation offers locals, visitors a unique experience
- CTV Northern Ontario: New tourist attraction in Sault Ste. Marie
- Sault Star: Mayor gets acknowledgement letter from premier, hopes to hear from MOH soon
- News Release: Sault Ste. Marie chosen by Noront Resources as host location for FPF
- SooToday: ‘The community earned this,’ mayor says of ferrochrome facility
- SooToday: Sault Ste. Marie lands ferrochrome processing facility
- CTV Northern Ontario: Ring of Fire smelter to be built in Sault Ste. Marie
- Sault Star: Noront chooses Sault Ste. Marie
- Northern Ontario Business: Sault anticipating economic boost with smelter build
- TVO: Ontario Hubs: Announcements in the Northeast
- Sault Star: Momentum builds with Noront’s ferrochrome facility; community introduction to be made shortly
- CBC: Noront plans to build ferrochrome smelter in Sault Ste. Marie
- CBC Up North: Sault Ste. Marie Mayor Christian Provenzano talks about the road ahead now that Noront Resources’ Ferrochrome Production Facility will be built there
- Sault Star: City should embrace ferrochrome plant and allow the process to unfold
- Sault Online: Sault Ste. Marie chosen by Noront Resources as host location for FPF
- SooToday: Lots of work still remains on ferrochrome processing plant
- SooToday: Sault ferrochrome processing facility announcement from City Hall (VIDEO)
- ONNtv: Noront announcement
- Sault Star: City nets $4.8 M in extra gas tax funding; allocations made to roads, downtown projects
April 2019
- Sault Star: City’s on-the-road job fair creates interest from job seekers
- Sault Star: FutureSSM moves forward with revised budget
- SooToday: Developer turning old school site into apartments cites strong demand from ageing population
- Sault Star: Council pushes to examine established neighbourhoods for future growth
- Sault Star: Hospital applauds support from city hall, community
- Sault Star: Council approves 2019 road reconstruction, resurfacing projects
- SooToday: Sault’s unemployment rate lowest in 20 years: FutureSSM
- ONNtv: Mayor reacts to budget
- Sault Star: Push continues for help to reduce opioid crisis in Sault Ste. Marie
- Sault Star: A few proclamations were signed at council Monday
- Sault Star: Immigration application focuses on urgency to increase workforce
- Sault Star: City moves to pilot ‘on demand’ Sunday evening transit service
- CTV Northern Ontario: Attracting more entertainment to Sault Ste. Marie
- SooToday: City green-lights municipal autism strategy
- CTV Northern Ontario: On demand transit service in Sault Ste. Marie
March 2019
- Sault This Week: Planned bike trail to have wide benefit
- Sault Star: Loss of provincial dollars won’t stop FutureSSM: Mayor
- SooToday: Mayor, police chief attend Sault mosque to offer support, condolences
- Sault Star: City’s construction employer designation could be lifted shortly
- SooToday: Taxes will continue to be a challenge, mayor says at Chamber luncheon
- Sault This Week: City seeks to lead environmentally
- Sault Star: Majority of homeowners will see tax bill increases under $100
- SooToday: City tweaks tax ratios to give apartment landlords a break
- Sault Star: Council looks to improve transparency in rezoning application process
- Sault Star: Putting McMeeken on ice
- SooToday: City to try new construction process on $25 million McMeeken replacement
- Sault Star: City looks at ‘greening’ laneway idea to create neighbourhood pride
- Sault Star: Mayor ‘disappointed’ in North East LHIN’s decision-making process
- Sault Star: Ontario should reconsider and invest in Sault Ste. Marie’s future
- SooToday: Emotional hellos and goodbyes at the Sault Armoury
- Sault Online: Mayor “Confident” Steel Tariffs Forefront of Government’s Mind
- Sault Online: ONNtv MYAC Youth Art Gala
- Sault Star: Favourite work found at gala
February 2019
- Sault Star: Ontario should reconsider and invest in Sault Ste. Marie’s future
- Sault This Week: Showcase focuses on youth
- Sault Star: Council dedicates $500,000 to growth projects
- Sault Star: Moves made to ready city for immigration support
- Sault Star: Early indicators suggest a good year for development
- SooToday: Sault awarded $125,000 to take action on climate change
- Sault Star: Sault taking job show on the road to GTA
- Sault Star: Provenzano takes issue with NPI’s CEO approach to immigration pilot
- SooToday: ‘Our women need to be protected,’ Chief says)
- Sault Star: Sault first to offer Start-up Visa program for entrepreneurs
- Sault Star: Municipal leaders pleased OMPF grant stays stable at 2018 level
- Sault Star: Feds provide PUC with $11.8 million for first-of-its-kind Smart Grid project
- CBC: Federal government spends $11.8M for smart grid technology in Sault Ste. Marie
January 2019
- Sault Star: Expert predicts population growth of almost 10K by 2036
- SooToday: Mayor, city officials huddle with Noront Resources brass in Toronto
- SooToday: Flag raising ceremony kicks off #BellLetsTalk campaign
- SooToday: Robert MacLachlan officially sworn in as deputy police chief
- News Release: Mayor’s Youth Advisory Council seeking submissions for MYAC Youth Art Gala
- Sault Online: New Deputy Police Chief Named
- CBC: Federal, Ontario governments invest $150M in Algoma Steel
- Sault Star: Mayor concerned about province’s plan to reduce OMPF grant
- SooToday: Mayor optimistic about Sault’s prospects for attracting immigrants
- SooToday: What we heard last night on Albert Street East
- Sault Star: St. Vincent Place counts on walk to fund supports
- Sault Star: Algoma ponders public port: Mayor
- Sault Star: Launch aims to build fundraiser awareness
- CBC: Steve Butland receives Medal of Merit in Sault Ste. Marie
December 2018
- SooToday: Clergue Park Skating Trail opens
- SooToday: We’re getting a poutine festival! Mayor helps make it happen!
- Sault Online: Welcome to the Sault, Booster Juice!
- SooToday: Bawating Urban Indigenous Committee backs mayor funding requests to address opioid crisis
- Sault Online: Provenzano Talks with Lou Anne Young
- SooToday: Skating trail under construction, waiting on weather
- Sault Star: New parking app coming to Sault Ste. Marie
- SooToday: City to help fund major step forward for local film industry
- SooToday: Brand-new cruise ships coming here
- Sault Star: Keep downtown traffic flow with one-way system, consultant recommends
- Sault This Week: Shape the Sault — is it for you?
- Sault Star: ‘A significant ask’
- Sault This Week: Mayor seeks help with opioid services
- Sault Online: They’re in! City Council Inauguration
- Sault Star: Mayor believes positive attitude will bring about good change
November 2018
- CBC As It Happens: CUSMA (Canada/U.S./Mexico Agreement): mayor
- Sault Star: Mayor calls it ‘a good day’ but says the Sault cannot find itself in same position again
- SooToday: Mayor Provenzano’s message on Algoma Steel proceedings
- CBC: Algoma Steel no longer in creditor protection
- Sault Star: PUC gets new tech system to improve water treatment operations
- SooToday: Street renamed to mark Rotary’s 100th anniversary
- CBC: Indigenous place names poised to return to the map of northern Ontario
- Sault Star: Rotary celebrates century of service
- News Release: Celebrate the season with the annual Community Tree Lighting Celebration
- Sault Star: ‘I did my duty’
- SooToday: Searchmont sold to Pine Knob owner for $2 million
- SooToday: Port receivership just ‘one of the steps’ to concluding steel mill sale, mayor says
- SooToday: Provenzano and Butland: a tale of two mayors
- SooToday: 144 important words spoken tonight by Mayor Christian Provenzano
- Sault Star: Synagogue victims remembered
- News Release: How would you spend your tax dollars?
October 2018
- Sault Star: Provenzano excited to work with new council
- News Release: Mayor Provenzano statement on Municipal Election results
- SooToday: Royal Canadian Legion launches annual poppy campaign
- Sault Star: Provenzano talks tariffs in Sterling Heights, Mich at Trade Tariff Forum
September 2018
- SooToday: Mayor raises banner in fight against childhood cancer
- Sault Star: Mayor for a Day promotes public-private partnerships
- News Release: Mayor Provenzano statement on Municipal Election results
- Sault Star: Provenzano talks tariffs
- SooToday: Every Breakfast Counts surpasses fundraising target
- Sault Star: New group for vets helps poppy campaign
- Canadian Business Gaming: PLATO establishes Gaming Center of Expertise in Sault Ste. Marie
- CBC News Network: USMCA steel town blues
- Sault This Week: Success of breakfast program a tribute to city’s generosity
- Sault Star: Garrison Way celebrates military presence
- SooToday: City prepares to give bike sharing a spin
- Northern Ontario Business: Clock ticking to save Huron Central Railway
- SooToday: City sizing up potential Jamestown resurgence
August 2018
- SooToday: Algoma property taxes: how the deal was done
- News release: City of Sault Ste. Marie supports efforts to strengthen steel industry
- Sault Online: PUC Smart Grid: Approved
- Sault Online: A Stark Reality: ‘Reclaiming Shingwauk Hall’
- SooToday: City Council approves $33 million leap into electrical smart grid
- SooToday: PUC proposes spending $33 million without hiking your electricity bill
- Sault Star: City reveals details of tax agreement with Algoma
- PV Magazine: Fluence to partner with PUC for peak-load shaving in Ontario
- CTV Northern Ontario: New ownership deal reached for Sault steel plant
- News Release: Applicants sought for Mayor’s Youth Advisory Council
- Sault Star: Noront continues research into Sault, Timmins
July 2018
- SooToday: Provenzano proud of his role in Pride as festival gets underway
- Northern Ontario Business: Noront shortlists Sault and Timmins as potential sites for ferrochrome smelter
- News Release: Sault Ste. Marie’s submission chosen by Noront for next stage of process
- CBC: Sault Ste. Marie Mayor Christian Provenzano on the news his city has been shortlisted for a ferrochrome smelter
- SooToday: Mayor sets up indigenous advisory circle
- SooToday: City Council approves $33 million leap into electrical smart grid
June 2018
- Sault Star: Summer breakfast program for kids starts
- Sault Online: ‘Commitment, Citizenship, and Service:’ James L. McIntyre Honoured
- News Release: City of Sault Ste. Marie celebrates National Indigenous Peoples Day
- News Release: Mayor Provenzano statement on Ontario General Election results
- News Release: Mayor Eisenberger and Mayor Provenzano reach out to US counterparts
- News Release: Sault Ste. Marie Police Services Board names new chief
May 2018
- News Release: Mayor Provenzano condemns tariff on Canadian steel
- CTV Northern Ontario: The Soo hires its first Integrity Commissioner
- CBC: ‘Senseless’ tariffs will impact Canadian steel operations, Sault Ste. Marie mayor says
- CBC: Sault Ste. Marie Mayor Christian Provenzano on those ‘illogical’ U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum
April 2018
- Northern Ontario Business: Northern mayors calling for immigration plan
- News Release: Northern Ontario Large Urban Mayors urge governments to address immigration imbalance
March 2018
- SooToday: Our mayor’s artful tactic for getting the inside track on a ferrochrome smelter
- News Release: Mayor Provenzano calls for action to prevent dumped steel from entering Canada
- News Release: Mayor’s Youth Advisory Council donates $10,000 to Splash Pad
- SooToday: Sault Dream Team mobilizes to frustrate Trumpian steel tariffs
- SooToday: Hoping to generate business, Sault heads to international mining expo
- CBC: Sault Ste. Marie Mayor Christian Provenzano talks about Justin Trudeau’s visit in wake of steel tariff threats from the U.S.