From the editor’s desk
At the bus stop[caption id="attachment_1019" align="alignleft" width="200"] Speaker Editor - Gordon Brock[/caption]May 23 was the first day of reduced hours at the New Liskeard bus station. This is part of the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission’s (ONTC)
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Letter to the editor
Battling sexual assaultDear Editor:I would like to take this opportunity to share with your readers a statement that Amelia Rising (as a member of the Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres - OCRCC) takes regarding the May 20, 2015 response of the Royal Military College to disclosure of
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A Wing and a Prayer
A reversal of a decision to allow the annual Drag N’ Fly to take place at the Earlton airport means the Temiskaming Rod and Custom Club (TRACC) now must make up for lost sponsors for the drag race.The decision to allow the event was made after an appeal
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“No news” adage doesn’t work for North
No news is good news.That well-worn adage may apply to most experiences in an average lifetime, but it doesn’t work for a transplanted resident of Northern Ontario who is trying to keep up with happenings in the land of his birth. When one is dependent upon media sources
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Letter of the Week
Admiration and disgustDear Editor:I read with a combination of admiration and disgust your article “Passerby Pulls Body From Lake Temiskaming” in the May 28, 2015 edition.I have never written a letter to the editor, but I find the facts surrounding this event worthy of comment. My
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From the Editor’s Desk
Timmins-James BayA few weeks back this space looked at the federal riding in the southern half of our circulation area – Nipissing-Timiskaming. This week we look at the riding in the northern part of our circulation area – Timmins-James Bay.It was written about Nipissing-Timiskaming that it could be
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Letter to the Editor
Let the sun shineDear Editor:After reading and rereading let the sun shine, TDSS unveils powerful project (The Speaker article in the May 13 issue), I say it’s no wonder our electrical costs have gone through the roof. To start with, the government gave 1.1 million
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Four-legged highway pedestrians
While the provincial government continues to express concerns regarding the number of moose in the North, and moose hunt tags and the hunting season are being reduced, there seems to have been an increasing number of sightings of moose along the sides of roads.The Ontario Provincial
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From the editor’s desk
Odds and EndsIt’s the week before what some optimistically call the first long weekend of the unofficial summer season.With that a community newspaper editor flips through his notebook:LAKE BREAKUPWe had a record-breaking cold month of February and a generally cold, long winter. The odds were
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Letter of the Week
Liberals knowingly put lives at riskDear Editor:On April 29, Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk released a special report on Winter Highway Maintenance in Ontario. The report is damning, on all accounts. Northerners will not be surprised by her findings that the standards of winter maintenance have gone down
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