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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Making it a Reality
Dear Editor:I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge everyone who has participated in our “Care Close to Home” campaign for the benefit of our hospital. Thanks to you, pieces of equipment have been and continue to be purchased to improve local care. Minimizing the need to
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Letter of the Week
These new regulations are discriminatoryDear Editor:Recently I attended a T.M.A meeting where a government speaker was explaining the new regulations for municipalities in the next municipal elections. The one that disturbed me the most is that before you can run for municipal office (e.g. councillor or mayor/reeve),
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From the Editor’s Desk
At the mallLast week The Speaker carried on its front page a story about how a long-time tradition in Temiskaming – visits with Santa at the Timiskaming Square Mall – will continue this Christmas season thanks to the initiative of the Temiskaming Shores Lioness Lions Club.As has been
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Letter of the Week
Temagami Country ChristmasDear Editor:This holiday season we took the opportunity to visit Temagami’s Christmas Village. It was an elaborate arrangement of lights and Christmas figures strung out through the bush on a well-cut and groomed walking trail. While the real Santa held court in the quaint and
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