Best Sault Ste. Marie Podcasts (2025)

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Sault Ste. Marie’s next generation vows to carry on Jewish life, especially for these coming High Holidays 26:19

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In the riverside border city of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., Jewish community leaders are stepping up to run programming for the 35 member families of Congregation Beth Jacob. The synagogue—gearing up to celebrate its 80th anniversary next year—can no longer afford to hire clergy to conduct High Holiday services. Instead, over the next month, the prayer…

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Mensch of Steel? Comic books are on the curriculum at this synagogue’s Sunday school 26:29

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When Sunday Hebrew school classes begin on Oct. 5 at Toronto’s Beth Radom Congregation, the students won’t be punished for reading comic books in class. On the contrary: spiritual leader Cantor Jeremy Burko is bringing his extensive collection of over 550 Jewish superhero comics into the curriculum.It’s his (graphic) novel way to explore the messag…

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Ottawa’s new hate crime laws ‘a step in the right direction’, Jewish leaders say 26:39

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On Sept. 19, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government unveiled a series of planned changes to Canada’s criminal code. They, in part, crack down on the explosion of hate crimes across the country over the past two years since Oct. 7, mostly against Jewish people.The new bill is called the “Combatting Hate Act” and still has a way to go before it is p…

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Two scions of a prominent Winnipeg rabbinic family are now helming the city’s biggest shuls 31:31

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For more than half a century, the Rose family—headed by Rabbi Neal Rose and his wife, Carol—have been prominent leaders in Winnipeg’s Jewish community. He has taught Judaic studies at university, they’ve led religious services and offered family programming, and mental health counselling. The Roses’ famous alternative High Holiday services launched…

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Slain law professor Dan Markel's Canadian family hopes for more time with his kids, after new guilty verdict 25:50

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A Florida court convicted Dan Markel’s former mother-in-law of first degree murder on Sept. 4 for the 2014 contract hit on the Canadian law professor. Markel, 41, was fatally shot in the head outside his Florida home by Latin gang members who his ex-wife’s family had hired to execute him, while the couple was locked in a bitter custody battle over …

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What it was like at the world premiere of ‘The Road Between Us’ 28:31

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The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue, a new documentary, debuted to a sold-out audience of nearly 2,000 ticket-holders at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 10. The 95-minute film depicts the true story of how a retired Israeli army general raced south through the country to save his children and grandchildren from Hamas terrorist…

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Today in the SOO - Wednesday September 10, 2025 3:44

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Send us a text Today in the SOO is brought to you by Outspoken Brewing, recent gold medal winners at the Ontario Brewing Awards and featuring $1 wings every Wednesday and live music Friday nights from 9-11. Outspoken Brewing, 350 Queen Street East, downtown Sault Ste. Marie. On today's podcast: Some Sault College staff could strike by midnight Thur…

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University is back in session. What are Jewish students walking into? 26:25

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As a new academic year starts on Canadian post-secondary campuses, headlines and social media posts are already revealing a familiarly troubling atmsphere for Jewish students. At Concordia University in Montreal, the official student handbook seems to glorify anti-Israel protests. At Toronto Metropolitan University, masked students accosted the pro…

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As the UN General Assembly meets this week, they’ll have a vocal new critic: Linda Frum 27:51

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The United Nations General Assembly gets to work this week, beginning its 80th anniversary session on Sept. 9. And as the ambassadors gather in New York, there will be a new pair of Canadian eyes keeping tabs on how the world’s parliament lives up to its mandate of equitably improving human rights, especially on the Israel-Palestine file.Former sen…

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Harvard experts warn Diaspora Jews are suffering from ‘traumatic invalidation’ after Oct. 7 30:19

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Diaspora Jews have spent nearly two full years seeing posters of Israeli hostages ripped down in public, hearing chants of “Go back to Poland” in the streets, and seeing Zionists banned from progressive organizations and events. After all that, Diaspora Jews could be suffering from a condition called “traumatic invalidation”. The diagnosis is conta…

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How Ottawa’s Jewish community is reacting to the Loblaws stabbing attack 28:45

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The suspect charged in the stabbing of a Jewish Ottawa woman at the city’s main kosher Loblaws grocery store last week is still in custody, and is going through a series of court appearances this week. But there has not yet been a bail hearing for Joe Rooke, who appeared by video in an Ottawa court on Sept. 2. Ottawa police arrested the suspect on …

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Menschwarmers: This Canadian athlete drew a swastika on a Jewish student’s dorm room. The New York Yankees drafted him anyway 39:00

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Ellin Bessner will return next week. Today, we're bringing you the latest episode of Menschwarmers, The CJN's Jewish sports podcast. Subscribe to Menschwarmers here. In July, the New York Yankees drafted a Canadian shortstop from Wyoming, Ont., named Core Jackson. They did so despite knowing that Jackson, as a 17-year-old freshman at the University…

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Greatest Hits: After escaping the Jasper forest fires, this tourist couple found safety in the Jewish community 28:01

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North Star is on vacation this week, so we're rerunning some of our favourite episodes. This one originally aired August 7, 2024. Sharon Chodirker and Chaim Bell consider themselves lucky: they were among the tens of thousands of tourists and residents in Jasper who were evacuated from the forest fires that devoured a third of the buildings in the …

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Greatest Hits: Wayne and Shuster’s kids are helping to bring their parents’ classic comedy skits to a new generation 25:42

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North Star is on vacation this week, so we're rerunning some of our favourite episodes. This one originally aired May 4th, 2023 Canadians of a certain age will remember listening to the comedy duo of Wayne and Shuster on the radio—and, later, watching them on television from the 1950s well into the 1980s. The duo met in high school in Toronto’s pre…

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Today in the SOO - Friday August 22, 2025 2:49

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Send us a text Today in the SOO is brought to you by Outspoken Brewing, recent gold medal winners at the Ontario Brewing Awards and featuring $1 wings every Wednesday and live music Friday nights from 9-11. Outspoken Brewing, 350 Queen Street East, downtown Sault Ste. Marie. On today's podcast: Doug Ford willing to help Algoma Steel diversify its p…

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Today in the SOO - Thursday August 21, 2025 3:10

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Send us a text Today in the SOO is brought to you by Outspoken Brewing, recent gold medal winners at the Ontario Brewing Awards and featuring $1 wings every Wednesday and live music Friday nights from 9-11. Outspoken Brewing, 350 Queen Street East, downtown Sault Ste. Marie. On today's podcast: Ontario to beef up job retraining for steelworkers ami…

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Greatest Hits: The bat mitzvah turns 100: Meet the oldest celebrant in Canada—and one of the youngest 16:21

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North Star is on vacation this week, so we're rerunning some of our favourite episodes. This one originally aired March 8, 2022. On March 19, 2022, 12-year-old Naomi Hochman will celebrate her bat mitzvah at Winnipeg's Shaarey Zedek synagogue. And while she's the first girl in her family to have a bat mitzvah—her older brothers had theirs, and she …

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Today in the SOO - Tuesday August 19, 2025 2:15

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Send us a text Today in the SOO is brought to you by Outspoken Brewing, recent gold medal winners at the Ontario Brewing Awards and featuring $1 wings every Wednesday and live music Friday nights from 9-11. Outspoken Brewing, 350 Queen Street East, downtown Sault Ste. Marie. On today's podcast: Air Canada, flight attendants reach tentative deal Pie…

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Today in the SOO - Monday August 18, 2025 2:24

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Send us a text Today in the SOO is brought to you by Outspoken Brewing, recent gold medal winners at the Ontario Brewing Awards and featuring $1 wings every Wednesday and live music Friday nights from 9-11. Outspoken Brewing, 350 Queen Street East, downtown Sault Ste. Marie. On today's podcast: Air Canada flight attendants defy back-to-work order M…

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Greatest Hits: Sharon, without Lois or Bram, transforms her classic career into a family business 17:46

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North Star is on vacation this week, so we're rerunning some of our favourite episodes. This one originally aired May 12, 2022. You've probably heard "Skinnamarink", the classic children's song by Sharon, Lois & Bram. But you probably haven't heard it on TikTok, where Sharon Hampson, now 82, is putting out quick snippets of classics and new materia…

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‘We weren’t even considered Jewish’: Documentary searches for filmmaker’s cultural identity 22:49

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In the months following Oct. 7, Vancouver native Kai Balin learned wanted to dig deeper into his Judaism, but learned that, despite his strong Jewish upbringing, his family actually isn’t considered Jewish by some in the Orthodox community. The discovery shocked him to his core—not only is Balin the grandson of Holocaust survivors, but he always fe…

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Today in the SOO - Thursday August 14, 2025 3:10

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Send us a text Today in the SOO is brought to you by Outspoken Brewing, recent gold medal winners at the Ontario Brewing Awards and featuring $1 wings every Wednesday and live music Friday nights from 9-11. Outspoken Brewing, 350 Queen Street East, downtown Sault Ste. Marie. On today's podcast: Some help could be on the way for Algoma Steel from th…

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Israel’s new plan to recapture Gaza: Is history repeating itself 20 years later? 27:30

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Under a new Israeli plan, announced Aug. 7 by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, about a million Palestinian residents of Gaza City would be forced to evacuate the area over the next two months, culminating on Oct. 7, 2025. After that, Netanyahu’s plan calls for the Israel Defense Forces to move in and capture the capital city, along with one other…

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Today in the SOO - Tuesday August 12, 2025 3:03

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Send us a text Today in the SOO is brought to you by Outspoken Brewing, recent gold medal winners at the Ontario Brewing Awards and featuring $1 wings every Wednesday and live music Friday nights from 9-11. Outspoken Brewing, 350 Queen Street East, downtown Sault Ste. Marie. On today's podcast: Major overspending by Public Works could lead to a def…

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Montreal attack aftermath: 'Every single one of us is a moving target' 26:02

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“Let’s get the patrols put in place, let’s have it happen! Do something that’s going to address the situation. Do something that will make the community feel safer!”That’s the message from Rabbi Saul Emanuel, executive director of Montreal’s Jewish Community Council, in the wake of a “heinous” attack on a haredi man on Aug. 8 in a public park. The …

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Today in the SOO - Friday August 8, 2025 3:25

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Send us a text Today in the SOO is brought to you by Outspoken Brewing, recent gold medal winners at the Ontario Brewing Awards and featuring live music tonight from 9-11 Outspoken Brewing, 350 Queen Street East, downtown Sault Ste. Marie. On today's podcast: OMVIC says local dealership operating illegally Sault lawyer sues province, premier over l…

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Advocates urge Jews to march in Montreal’s Pride parade after ban reversal 28:40

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On Sunday Aug. 10, Montreal’s 19th annual Pride parade is set to take place, and two local Jewish organizations have been once again been invited to participate—despite a turbulent few days in which the organizers originally barred both Ga’ava and the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs.The explusion stemmed from complaints Pride said it received …

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Today in the SOO - Thursday August 7, 2025 4:10

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Send us a text Today in the SOO is brought to you by Outspoken Brewing featuring $1 wings on Wednesdays and live music every Friday night from 9-11. Outspoken Brewing, 350 Queen Street East. On today's podcast: The Sault has a new top cop $92K in drugs seized after traffic stop Woman gets 6 months behind bars after animal welfare investigation Poli…

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Today in the SOO - Wednesday August 6, 2025 2:32

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Send us a text Today in the SOO is brought to you by Outspoken Brewing featuring $1 wings on Wednesdays and live music every Friday night from 9-11. Outspoken Brewing, 350 Queen Street East. On today's podcast: Will Sudbury's hospital get torn down before ours Hounds considering a 2027 Memorial Cup bid Second Stacked Pancake and Breakfast House com…

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Mikveh makeover: A U.S. charity helped build or renovate 10 ritual baths across Canada 26:47

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While many Canadians are continuing to boycott products made in the United States, when it comes to mikvehs, nearly a dozen Canadian Jewish communities have no qualms about accepting their money.Mikvah USA is a Brooklyn-based charity that gives out financial aid, advice and technical support for renovating outdated mikvehs and building brand-new on…

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Today in the SOO - Tuesday August 5, 2025 2:46

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Send us a text Today in the SOO is brought to you by Outspoken Brewing featuring $1 wings on Wednesdays and live music every Friday night from 9-11. Outspoken Brewing, 350 Queen Street East. On today's podcast: Air quality still affected by forest fires SSM police searching for missing 14-year-old Local rideshare company raises concerns over a vehi…

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Hope for peace or terrorist appeasement? Two experts weigh in on Canada recognizing Palestinian statehood 35:11

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On July 30, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that, come September, Canada will officially recognize Palestine as a state, during the United Nations General Assembly meetings in New York. In making the announcement in Ottawa earlier this week, Carney said he had received three “commitments” from the head of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abb…

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Why Canada should follow Israel’s lead and help protect the Druze in Syria 23:31

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For nearly three weeks now, members of Canada’s Druze community have been desperately sounding the alarm after an outbreak of ethnic violence in the Sweida area of Syria resulted in the deaths of roughly 1,000 people, mostly civilians.Tensions erupted on July 11 between local Sunni Bedouin clans and the majority Druze population living in Syria’s s…

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Today in the SOO - Tuesday July 29, 2025 2:26

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Send us a text Today in the SOO is brought to you by Outspoken Brewing featuring $1 wings on Wednesdays and live music every Friday night from 9-11. Outspoken Brewing, 350 Queen Street East. On today's podcast: College faculty wondering where their president is Minister Melanie Joly visits Algoma Steel Suspect in Traverse City Walmart stabbings ple…

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Pain lingers despite guilty plea by the man who defaced Canada's Holocaust monument 21:24

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On July 25, Iain Aspenlieder pleaded guilty in court to a charge of mischief for defacing Canada's National Holocaust Monument. Before dawn on June 9, Aspenlieder—a former lawyer with the City of Ottawa—cycled to the monument with three cans of bright red paint to write the words "FEED ME". He meant the phrase as a political statement about the hum…

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Today in the SOO - Friday July 25, 2025 3:01

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Send us a text Today in the SOO is brought to you by Outspoken Brewing featuring $1 wings on Wednesdays and live music every Friday night from 9-11. Outspoken Brewing, 350 Queen Street East. On today's podcast: Accused in stabbing of Sault man out on bail Zoom bombers ruin it for everyone Updates being proposed to parking standards Portion of MacKa…

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Nautical nachas: This summer, welcome Shabbat on a boat in the Laurentians 26:43

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If you happen to be in the Laurentians one Friday afternoon this summer, near the Saint-Agathe, a resort area north of Montreal that’s popular with Jewish families, you might hear clapping, singing and loud Jewish music blasting from a flotilla of boats tied together in the middle of a lake. The gatherings represent two concurrent pre-Shabbat get-t…

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Deborah Lyons shares why she quit as Canada’s antisemitism envoy: ‘It was hard to get people to speak up’ 28:27

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In her first media interview since stepping down early as Canada’s Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism, Deborah Lyons spoke to The CJN frankly about why she left. There were no medical or mental health issues that prompted her decision, she says. It was, in part, exhaustion after spending nearly two years “…

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Today in the SOO - Tuesday July 22, 2025 3:06

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Send us a text Today in the SOO is brought to you by Outspoken Brewing featuring $1 wings on Wednesdays and live music every Friday night from 9-11. Outspoken Brewing, 350 Queen Street East. On today's podcast: 22-year-old Station Mall stabbing victim recovering at home Stabbing on Cathcart last week results in 52-year-old being charged Assault cha…

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This doctor quit a Canadian medical body after they published an article praising members of Hezbollah 21:22

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There are two framed medical certificates missing from the wall of Dr. Michael Kalin’s office in his medical clinic in Montreal. Kalin, who owns Santé Kildare, earned them years ago from the College of Family Physicians of Canada, which oversees 45,000 family doctors. But the College has ordered him to take them down, after Kalin publicly resigned …

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Today in the SOO - Friday July 18, 2025 3:17

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Send us a text Today in the SOO is brought to you by Outspoken Brewing featuring $1 wings on Wednesdays and live music every Friday night from 9-11. Outspoken Brewing, 350 Queen Street East. On today's podcast: Police investigating downtown BB shootings Sault College declares 8 positions redundant Police investigate theft of explosives at Ontario T…

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Irwin Cotler still calling for action against Iran, after they plotted his assassination 24:20

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On July 18, Jewish communities will mark the 31st anniversary of the AMIA terrorist bombing in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in which Hezbollah, backed by Iran, murdered 85 people and wounded hundreds more at the city's Jewish Federation building. Until Oct. 7, 2023, the AMIA bombing had been the worst mass attack against Jews since the Holocaust. For I…

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Today in the SOO - Thursday July 17, 2025 3:16

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Send us a text Today in the SOO is brought to you by Outspoken Brewing featuring $1 wings on Wednesdays and live music every Friday night from 9-11. Outspoken Brewing, 350 Queen Street East. On today's podcast: Feds say help is on the way for Algoma Steel Shoemaker says search for new chief done democratically CAO says hospital deal still weeks awa…

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Today in the SOO - Wednesday July 16, 2025 4:14

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Send us a text Today in the SOO is brought to you by Outspoken Brewing featuring $1 wings on Wednesdays and live music every Friday night from 9-11. Outspoken Brewing, 350 Queen Street East. On today's podcast: Booze bikes coming to the downtown area Some Hydro One customers will be without power this Sunday and next Physician in Doctor's Building …

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‘Deeply disappointed’: An Iranian Canadian dissident reflects on the brief Israel-Iran war 20:20

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It has been three weeks since a ceasefire on June 24 paused the brief war between Israel and Iran. As a recap of what happened: the Israel Defense Forces launched surprise air strikes on Iran’s nuclear bomb-making facilities and other targets. The Israeli government said Iran was weeks away from having working nuclear missiles, which officials say …

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Today in the SOO - Tuesday July 15, 2025 3:05

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Send us a text Today in the SOO is brought to you by Outspoken Brewing featuring $1 wings on Wednesdays and live music every Friday night from 9-11. Outspoken Brewing, 350 Queen Street East. On today's podcast: Councillor Hollingsworth says the shoe doesn't fit, the mayor must go from Police Board Three big issues ignored at last night's council me…

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Today in the SOO - Monday July 14, 2025 3:06

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Send us a text Today in the SOO is brought to you by Outspoken Brewing featuring $1 wings on Wednesdays and live music every Friday night from 9-11. Outspoken Brewing, 350 Queen Street East. On today's podcast: Bad air quality to continue today Missing 14-year-old located safe Police Services Board Chair, Vice-Chair abruptly resign Construction sta…

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'It's my gift to the world': Why this Canadian artist painted all 54 chapters of the Torah 20:08

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When Sheila Nemtin Levine began painting, she didn't plan to fulfill the final commandment of the Torah: that every Jew should write their own Old Testament. But, since 2016, that's what ended up happening. She has painted 54 vibrant, mixed-media canvases—one for each chapter—each with a modern take on the ancient verses. They comprise her new art …

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Today in the SOO - Friday July 11, 2025 3:25

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Send us a text Today in the SOO is brought to you by Outspoken Brewing featuring $1 wings on Wednesdays and live music every Friday night from 9-11. Outspoken Brewing, 350 Queen Street East. On today's podcast: Sault Area Hospital alerts public of a recent scam Security company granted summary judgement against former hospital site owner New wind f…

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Today in the SOO - Thursday July 10, 2025 3:17

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Send us a text Today in the SOO is brought to you by Outspoken Brewing featuring $1 wings on Wednesdays and live music every Friday night from 9-11. Outspoken Brewing, 350 Queen Street East. On today's podcast: 24-year-old facing several firearm charges Bail hearing for man charged with attempted murder to be held on August 8th Disciplinary hearing…