David Helwig
Founding News Director at SooToday.com
Journalist, aspiring opera librettist
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1 week ago |
sootoday.com | David Helwig
Two city councillors aren't happy rabbits after learning that Group Health Centre (GHC) will no longer provide financial support for the Sault's physician recruitment efforts. "GHC’s Ministry of Health funding agreement prohibits the use of ministry funds for physician recruitment activities," Lil Silvano, GHC chief executive officer, and Dr. Jodie Stewart, CEO of Algoma District Medical Group (ADMG), said in a recent letter to the city's physician recruitment and retention committee.
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1 week ago |
sootoday.com | David Helwig
Sault Ste. Marie city council agreed this week to ban use of the popular DeepSeek app on city-issued smartphones and tablets. DeepSeek is a free AI-powered chatbot that works much like ChatGPT, which was released in the United States in November 2022. Released in January of this year, DeepSeek within weeks passed ChatGPT as the most downloaded free app on the iOS App Store in the United States.
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2 weeks ago |
northernontariobusiness.com | David Helwig
Sault Ste. Marie city council voted April 8 to dissolve the 49-year-old Downtown Association. With only Coun. Sandra Hollingsworth opposed, councillors voted nine to one to bring the business group's work under the city umbrella. A supporting business advisory committee and a skeleton city staff will be assigned to downtown duties. This is essentially the same approach the city has taken in recent years in its tourism and economic development departments.
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2 weeks ago |
sootoday.com | David Helwig
Ward 3 Coun. Angela Caputo faced 25 minutes of often-hostile questioning tonight after admitting to a Downtown Association board meeting that the city has no plan for what to do with the downtown it took over this week.
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2 weeks ago |
sootoday.com | David Helwig
On this date one year ago, Sault Ste. Marie city council voted to reprimand Ward 4 Coun. Stephan Kinach for using 'inappropriate' language criticizing city staff. But when Mayor Matthew Shoemaker delivered that reprimand, it was widely perceived as a very mild censure. Twelve months later, at last night's city council meeting, the mayor had no formal directive to reprimand Kinach. But he and Ward 5 Coun.
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