Sault Ste. Marie

• Ontario MPP charged with assault takes ‘short leave,’ won’t step down

  In September, Chris Scott was arrested in Toronto following an investigation by police in his local riding of Sault Ste. Marie and charged with assault and assault with a weapon.

  Crime

  Oct 2
  
• Progressive Conservative MPP arrested by police, removed from caucus

  Scott was elected for the first time in February, very narrowly beating the NDP candidate in the riding by a little over 100 votes.

  Canada

  Sep 22
  
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• Ontario election 2025 results: Sault Ste. Marie

  Sault Ste. Marie is a provincial riding located in Northern Ontario.

  Canada

  Feb 25
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• Battle for Sault Ste. Marie, Thunder Bay ridings puts northern issues in spotlight

  And the northern cities of Sault Ste. Marie and Thunder Bay, which politicians of all stripes have represented over the past few decades, have become key battlegrounds. 

  Politics

  Feb 24
• SIU probing after man allegedly shot dead by police in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.

  Ontario's police watchdog says it's investigating the circumstances surrounding a shooting involving police that left one man dead in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., over the weekend.

  Crime

  May 12, 2024
• Algoma Steel says structure collapse Saturday disrupted coke production, no injuries

  Algoma Steel Group Inc. says a structure supporting utilities piping at its coke-making plant collapsed on Saturday. The company said there were no injuries.

  Canada

  Jan 22, 2024
• Sault Ste. Marie gunman didn’t have firearms license when he went on rampage: police

  Police in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., say the man who went on a deadly shooting rampage in late October did not have an active firearms license.

  Crime

  Nov 30, 2023
• ‘This violence needs to stop,’ Durham advocates react to mass shooting in Sault Ste. Marie

  The shooting in Sault Ste. Marie is sounding the alarm locally for more resorces around intimate partner violence.

  Canada

  Nov 1, 2023
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• Hundreds attend vigil for victims of shooting rampage in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.

  Four people were killed, including three children, and a woman was injured at two different locations in the northern Ontario city before the shooter took his own life.

  Crime

  Oct 28, 2023
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• Sault Ste. Marie shooter was previously charged with assaulting officer, court docs show

  Court documents show a man who killed four people -- including three children -- before turning a gun on himself was charged with assaulting a police officer four years ago.

  Crime

  Oct 26, 2023