The 2018 municipal election is drawing near and through the last few weeks we have been listening to candidates outlining their visions for the future of their communities. Northern Ontario …

By Steven Larocque   Remember that old song that went “celebrate good times, come on,” was it the Pointer Sisters? Kool and the Gang? The Sex Pistols? Today you can …

Congratulations to the negotiators who finally settled (tentatively, it must be said) on the new NAFTA – now called the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA. America’s president, Donald Trump, got …

By Diane Johnston   In my hand was a shiny, green, glass-like shard smaller than my thumbnail, and with one serrated edge. I also held a whitish, stubbly pebble. The …

A recent meeting of the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care with the owner of the Northview Nursing Home in Englehart has alerted the town to the fact that the …

By Darlene Wroe   A long time ago, I was talking to a friend, and we were reviewing the different things we like. I noted that most things I like …