Steven Larocque Speaker Editor TEMISKAMING SHORES – World Girls Hockey Weekend was celebrated October 7 in rinks across Canada, but the most poignant observance was perhaps right here in Temiskaming Shores.The Temiskaming Shores Minor Hockey Association (TSMHA) used the occasion to pay tribute to Alexa Corneil by retiring her number 15 Midget
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Road trip puts Cubs on the right path
Steven Larocque Speaker Editor TEMISKAMING SHORES – The New Liskeard Cubs found a new ingredient at the western edge of the Great North universe last weekend.A bit of confidence.The team was in Sault Ste. Marie for a pair of games October 7 and 8 against the Minor Midget Thunderbirds and the Major
Welders win two shootouts on home ice
TEMISKAMING SHORES (Special) - The Ebert Welding Puckhounds hosted the Lasarre Lions in their home opener of the Abitibi-Témiscamingue Hyundai Bantam BB League. The Hounds eked out a pair of thrilling
An immigrant story: 50 years later
Sue Nielsen Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES — It was fifty years ago this year that Tom and Theresa McGrory and their three wee children left their homeland of Scotland travelling to Northern Ontario as newly arrived immigrants. The year was 1967, Canada’s centennial year.In 2017, during Canada’s sesquicentennial year, discussions have taken
The Speaker – October 11, 2017
Operation Impact over Thanksgiving weekend
District (Special) – Heading into the Thanksgiving Day long weekend, the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is reminding the motoring public about Operation Impact. This annual campaign focusses on the four main causal factors in motor vehicle collision deaths: distracted driving, speeding, impaired driving and failure to wear a seat
Weekender – October 6, 2017
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Angus loses to Singh in leadership race
TORONTO (Staff) - Canada's New Democratic Party (NDP) has chosen Southern Ontario MPP Jagmeet Singh as its next leader.He beat out Timmins-James Bay MP Charlie Angus who was second in the Sunday, October 1, voting.Behind Angus were MPs Niki Ashton of Manitoba (Churchill-Keewatinook Aski) and Quebec’s Guy Caron (Rimouski-Neigette-Témiscouata-Les Basque).Angus,
Passing on help
NORTH BAY (Staff) – Are you worried about completing your passport application correctly?Help will be on hand Tuesday, October 10, when Nipissing-Timiskaming MP Anthony Rota hosts a passport clinic at Riverside Place in New Liskeard from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.Staff will be available to answer questions and review application
New Liskeard pipeline replacement underway
TEMISKAMING SHORES (Staff) – Construction is expected to wrap up early next month on a pipeline replacement project in and around New Liskeard.Union Gas is replacing a four-inch diameter pipeline that brings natural gas into New Liskeard, said Andrea Stass, the company’s manager of external communications and media relations, in