Sault Area Hospital

Algoma Addresses Casthouse Incident

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Friday, February 9, 2024

MARIE, Ontario, Feb. 09, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Algoma Steel Group Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTL; TSX: ASTL) (“Algoma” or “the Company”), a leading Canadian producer of hot and cold rolled steel sheet and plate products, today advised that at approximately 10:00 pm on Wednesday, February 7 there was an incident at the north casthouse of the blast furnace complex where the Company believes slag made contact with moisture in the hot iron trough.

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  • MARIE, Ontario, Feb. 09, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Algoma Steel Group Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTL; TSX: ASTL) (“Algoma” or “the Company”), a leading Canadian producer of hot and cold rolled steel sheet and plate products, today advised that at approximately 10:00 pm on Wednesday, February 7 there was an incident at the north casthouse of the blast furnace complex where the Company believes slag made contact with moisture in the hot iron trough.
  • Twelve workers were impacted by the incident and five were treated at Sault Area Hospital.
  • As previously disclosed, Algoma experienced issues at the blast furnace as an unexpected consequence of an incident on Saturday, January 20 when a structure supporting utilities piping collapsed.
  • The Company continues to advance on-site repair work as well as a comprehensive investigation into the January 20 incident.

Patients, doctors, health workers, nurses, advocates converge on the Ontario Legislature & across northern Ontario today in opposition to Ford’s hospital privatization

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Monday, September 25, 2023

TORONTO and ALGOMA, Ontario and DRYDEN, Ontario and THUNDER BAY, Ontario, Sept. 25, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The people of Ontario have built up our local public hospitals and their services over 100 years.

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  • TORONTO and ALGOMA, Ontario and DRYDEN, Ontario and THUNDER BAY, Ontario, Sept. 25, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The people of Ontario have built up our local public hospitals and their services over 100 years.
  • For more than 50 years, for-profit hospitals have been banned in our province.
  • Now, the Ford government is dismantling our local public hospitals in a concerted effort to privatize them, warns the Ontario Health Coalition which is planning a major protest on Monday, the day the Legislature opens.
  • There will be a second protest Tuesday for Jewish communities as the Ford government set the Legislature’s opening day on Yom Kippur.

Major protests on Ontario Legislature’s opening: Thousands to oppose Ford’s hospital privatization

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Thursday, September 21, 2023

TORONTO, Ontario and ALGOMA, Ontario and DRYDEN, Ontario and THUNDER BAY, Ontario, Sept. 21, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The people of Ontario have built up our local public hospitals and their services over 100 years.

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  • TORONTO, Ontario and ALGOMA, Ontario and DRYDEN, Ontario and THUNDER BAY, Ontario, Sept. 21, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The people of Ontario have built up our local public hospitals and their services over 100 years.
  • Now, the Ford government is dismantling our local public hospitals in a concerted effort to privatize them, warns the Ontario Health Coalition which is planning a major protest on Monday, the day the Legislature opens.
  • There will be a second protest Tuesday for Jewish communities as the Ford government set the Legislature’s opening day on Yom Kippur.
  • The Coalition has vowed to use every tool available to the public to stop Ford's health privatization schemes.

Algoma Steel Reports Fatal Incident

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Friday, June 16, 2023

MARIE, Ontario, June 16, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Algoma Steel Group Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTL; TSX: ASTL) (“Algoma” or the “Company”), regrets to report a fatal incident involving an employee of a contractor who was retained to perform specialized maintenance work.

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  • MARIE, Ontario, June 16, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Algoma Steel Group Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTL; TSX: ASTL) (“Algoma” or the “Company”), regrets to report a fatal incident involving an employee of a contractor who was retained to perform specialized maintenance work.
  • Algoma Steel Emergency Services personnel responded immediately with assistance from Sault Ste.
  • Algoma Steel Chief Executive Officer Michael D. Garcia commented, “We extend our sincere condolences to the family, friends, and colleagues affected by this devastating loss.
  • The safety and well-being of everyone in our workplace is a top priority and core value at Algoma Steel.

Algoma Steel Donates $1 Million toward Sault Area Hospital Residential Withdrawal Management Facility

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Tuesday, July 19, 2022

MARIE, Ontario, July 19, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Algoma Steel Group Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTL; TSX: ASTL) (Algoma or the Company), a leading Canadian producer of hot and cold rolled steel sheet and plate products, today announced its donation of CDN $1 million to Sault Area Hospital Foundation (SAHF), in support of Sault Area Hospitals (SAH) Residential Withdrawal Management Facility.

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  • MARIE, Ontario, July 19, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Algoma Steel Group Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTL; TSX: ASTL) (Algoma or the Company), a leading Canadian producer of hot and cold rolled steel sheet and plate products, today announced its donation of CDN $1 million to Sault Area Hospital Foundation (SAHF), in support of Sault Area Hospitals (SAH) Residential Withdrawal Management Facility.
  • The new facility will provide twenty residential withdrawal management beds and safe beds in a completely renovated space.
  • Our team at Algoma is proud to support the Sault Area Hospital in their construction of a Residential Withdrawal Management Facility.
  • On behalf of the Sault Area Hospital, our patients, and our health care workers, I extend our sincere gratitude and appreciation to Algoma Steel for their generous donation of $1 million to support and enhance care for individuals accessing care at our new Residential Withdrawal Management facility, said Ila Watson, President & CEO, of Sault Area Hospital.

Demand Power Group Inc. Delivering Customer Energy Management Solutions in Partnership with PUC Services Inc.

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Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - October 26, 2021) - Demand Power Group Inc. (Demand Power) is delighted to announce a strategic partnership with Sault Ste.

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  • Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - October 26, 2021) - Demand Power Group Inc. (Demand Power) is delighted to announce a strategic partnership with Sault Ste.
  • Marie-based local distribution company (LDC) PUC Distribution's operating affiliate, PUC Services Inc (PUC Services).
  • The partnership sees Demand Power join PUC Services as their integrator, providing Customer Energy Management (CEMa) Program services to PUC Distribution customers and other public and private electricity customers throughout Ontario.
  • Demand Power and PUC Services, through the CEMa program, continue to assist multiple commercial customers in the Sault Ste.