Letter of the Week
Great business communityDear Editor:Our Temiskaming Shores Business Community is composed of an amazing, dedicated group of people. From October through December of 2016, eleven businesses provided work experience placements to students from the Transitional Learning Communities (TLC) of Timiskaming District Secondary School (TDSS).Fourteen students participated in these
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Keeping it local
Dear Editor:I thoroughly enjoy reading The Speaker as my source of news about area happenings, so I am extremely disappointed to learn that you are retiring as editor.You do an outstanding job week in and week out, so you will be greatly missed in that regard.Also,
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Meeting the challenge
We are in a time of significant change.The economy of the world is changing rapidly.Climate change is making it necessary to reconsider how we obtain and use energy.The need to change away from fossil fuels, and our entrenched dependence on it, is
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From the Editor’s Desk
Talking about CJTTWith five issues left before this Editor’s Desk closes, the tone the rest of the way will be more personal than other offerings in this space have been these past 32 years.Last Friday morning yours truly was the guest on CJTT radio’s popular
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From the Editor’s Desk
Beginning 2017This week teachers and students are still on holidays but the rest of us are taking the decorations down and preparing for the year ahead.We begin a new year by wrapping up the outgoing year. Our C Front feature presents our annual quiz looking
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Can only shake my head
Dear Editor:As I sat in the hospital passing time, I came across an interesting ad of the Ontario Energy Board to customers of gas users.A cost of five to seven dollars a month average on your gas bill to cover cap and trade which they will have
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Pain or Gain
Dear Editor:This is also a “Letter to the Prime Minister and all Political Parties”Honorable ladies and gentlemen, I am dismayed that this letter has to be written, but as I put pen to paper, I listen to a government announcement that thirty years after the collapse of
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Christmas in Temiskaming
One of the things we love the most about the Christmas season here at The Speaker is the way the communities come together to celebrate.This determined cooperation and commitment to bringing out the beauty and love of the area is an inspiration to us all.
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From the Editor’s Desk
Christmas 2016This is our last issue of The Speaker before Christmas and yours truly can’t ever recall a pre-Christmas Speaker issue, such as this one, where the front page stories run the extreme of the human condition.WHITE CHRISTMASBarring the biggest change in climate in
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Village Noel thanks you all
Dear Editor:A few weeks have passed since the 2016 edition of Village Noël Temiskaming (VNT) made its annual appearance in downtown New Liskeard. It was a huge success with over 5 000 visitors from every corner of the province and elsewhere.Such a huge event requires careful planning
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