From the Editor’s Desk
Mid-summer notesBack from a two-week vacation, a community newspaper editor flips through his notebook…FADS AND HABITSIncluded among the stories in this week’s Speaker is our front page story on the popularity of the Pokémon GO fad in our area.Pokémon GO is a new mobile game
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Develop a system
Dear Editor:This is an open letter to the Honourable Eric Hoskins, Minister of Health & Long Term Care.Dear Minister Hoskins:In early 2016 several cases involving non-emergency medical transportation received media attention in my riding of Timiskaming-Cochrane. Two separate cases involved seniors being left without proper transportation,
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Thanking Barry and his army
Dear Editor:This letter is to commend Barry Phippen and his army of volunteers.I know that they work all year to prepare for the Bikers Reunion.We tend to forget that the real purpose of the reunion is to raise funds to help our cancer patients which
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Researching rural public schoolsDear Editor:The Little Claybelt Homesteaders’ Museum is completing its research on the rural public schools of our area.We are still missing photos and information on some schools. If you could help with some of these missing pieces, would you please contact Margaret Villneff
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The way we voteOver the summer a parliamentary committee is to look at ways of changing our traditional system of electing MPs.To most Canadians, there is nothing wrong with the process in which we elect our party representatives . Or, to be more precise, there
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Keep on Rolling
The area has been filled with activities over the last several weekends of summer.From the final Bikers Reunion, which brought in thousands of people, to the Temagami Deepwater Music Festival and Temagami Canoe Festival which brought in an estimated thousand people, to the Rod Inglis Memorial Earlton Steam
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Letter of the Week
(NOTE: This poem by Scott Gray of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 33, New Liskeard, was written to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Somme offensive in Beaumont-Hamel, France, on July 1, 1916, by the Newfoundland Regiment.)Beaumont-HamelAs the poem goes, in the fields of
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The Last Ride?
Dear Editor,During the last Bikers Reunion I spoke to many of the bikers as I took (my dog) Misty on her many daily walks through the campgrounds.Every biker I spoke to expressed their disappointment at this being the last reunion.Other bikers mentioned that different locations were
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Eyewitness AccountsHow often do we hear a media report, quoting “eye-witnesses” for example, about a police shooting? How often do we then hear the “eye-witnesses” were wrong. No, they didn’t deliberately lie, they were wrong but they honestly believed what they were saying was true.Looking back over
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Praising Jim RunnallsDear Editor:Thank you for the article about Jim Runnalls and his 48 years of school bus driving (The Speaker, June 28, 2016).I’ve known Jim for many years, not as a school bus driver but as a Christian and member of Milberta and Hillview United Churches.
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