By Steven LarocqueThe announcement last week that Canada had decided to sign a revised Trans Pacific Partnership agreement, without the United States as a signatory, was big and interesting news.With our Prime Minister in Davos, Switzerland, and American president Donald Trump about to arrive, news watchers were on the lookout

Winter in Temiskaming means cold temperatures and snowfall.That’s about as basic as it gets.Plenty of people will gripe and moan when either occurs.You have to plug in the car, dress in layers, waddle along in heavy and cumbersome clothes and generally feel uncomfortable for stretches of time.The snow means shovelling,

Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter In my ongoing drive to declutter, I recently opened a plastic storage bin and discovered a copy of the Ottawa Citizen I’d picked up January 1, 2000.Ah, the Millennium (or not…experts in the field insist it began January 1, 2001).I remember watching the television coverage that began December

As the economy works through the impact of the minimum wage increase, there are things that can be done at home to help offset the downside.Mainly, the message is "shop at home."Every dollar spent in another community is a dollar that is not spent at home. Every dollar spent on

Steven Larocque Speaker Editor Donald Trump said a bad word last week.Referring to Haiti and El Salvador and unspecified African countries, he complained aloud in a meeting with officials about allowing citizens of those “shithole countries” to enter the United States.What’s curious is not the profanity coming from a person like Trump,

Now that the deep freeze has left South Temiskaming (for the time being) and more balmy January weather is in place, people are thinking back to the cars that wouldn’t start, the frozen pipes and broken water mains.Take a moment, though, to give a big thumbs up to all

Darlene Wroe Speaker Reporter Here in the North, a white Christmas is what we tend to expect.Growing up in the North, Christmas mornings always tended to be punctuated with frosted windows, giant icicles, and wide expanses of snow-covered fields.On sunny mornings, the trees were often coated in silver sparkling in the sunlight.It