From the editor’s desk

Remembrance NotesOn Friday, November 7, a Remembrance service was held in the afternoon at Ecole secondaire catholique Sainte-Marie.The gathered student assembly saw an audio-visual presentation prepared by teacher André Maheu. Mr. Maheu this year has also completed a book, soon to be published, on our local World

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speakeradmin webmaster@northernontario.caNovember 12, 2014Editorial

Our young people’s future

Dear Editor:I remember in the late 1940’s, when the Eaton Stove Works closed its doors putting over 100 men out of work.Like an animal that has lost too much of its habitat, the giant wood cookstoves were cast aside often with glee, and replaced by electric stoves.

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Acts of kindness leaves large impression

Dear Editor:Kindness, although a more commonly used word, seems more appropriate than generous to express our feelings of your support of our Food Bank.Throughout the year we experience these acts by members of our community, who on a regular schedule visit our Food Bank to deliver food

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speakeradmin webmaster@northernontario.caNovember 12, 2014Editorialcharity, Food Bank

From the editor’s desk

REMEMBRANCE SIGNIFICANCEWithin the last fortnight two Canadian soldiers were murdered on Canadian soil. Depending on your political viewpoint this was an act of terrorism or simply, and tragically, two isolated incidents.It was the impetus though for Prime Minister Stephen Harper to skip a scheduled trip to China

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speakeradmin webmaster@northernontario.caNovember 5, 2014EditorialRemembrance Day

Join the fight

Dear Editor:I am writing you about my concerns with regard to bill C-377.I am the treasurer for my local union; OSSTF/FEESO District #1 in North Eastern Ontario. I am also the President of my local bargaining unit OSSTF/FEESO at Temiskaming District Secondary School.I take my

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speakeradmin webmaster@northernontario.caNovember 5, 2014EditorialFEESO, labour, OSSTC, TDSS

Letter of the Week

Proud of Temiskaming HospitalDear Editor:I spent the best part of the summer of 2013 running up and down Highway 11 from Lake Temagami to the Temiskaming hospital with a blood clot in my leg. This summer it was a gall bladder that began acting up on May

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speakeradmin webmaster@northernontario.caNovember 5, 2014Editorialhighway 11, Temiskaming Hospital

Letter to the Editor

Memories of that schoolDear Editor:I noticed in The Speaker a building that Lloyd “Strad” Wilson says was a school.It was also the home of the Second New Liskeard Scout Troop.I, along with Jim Grant and many others, started that troop.It began about 1957.My dad,

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speakeradmin webmaster@northernontario.caNovember 5, 2014Editorialeducation, history

Congratulating the candidates

The October 27 municipal elections in our area saw the voter turnout range from as high as 83 per cent in Latchford to as low as 23 per cent in Hudson.Elsewhere in the pages of this edition of The Temiskaming Speaker there are results and analysis

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speakeradmin webmaster@northernontario.caOctober 29, 2014Editorialelection, Municipal Election

From the Editor’s Desk

Election Night Notebook[caption id="attachment_1019" align="alignleft" width="200"] Speaker Editor - Gordon Brock[/caption]A community newspaper editor who sat at the desk and compiled election night returns in 13 municipalities goes over his notebook:• The most striking aspect was

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speakeradmin webmaster@northernontario.caOctober 29, 2014Editorialelection, From the Editor's Desk, politics

Letter of the Week

About the move to TDSSDear Editor:This is an open letter to the director and trustees at District School Board Ontario North East:I am writing in regards to the board’s decision to move the New Liskeard Public School (NLPS) and Haileybury Public School (HPS)

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speakeradmin webmaster@northernontario.caOctober 29, 2014Editorialeducation, Letter of the Week, TDSS