Letter to the Editor
Recent Temagami sightingsDear Editor:A couple of unusual sightings to report from Lake Temagami this June.On June 10 after walking into Kokoko Lake my fishing buddy and I observed a school of five carp in the shallows below where the stream from Koko Lake enters Lake Temagami.
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From the editor’s desk
Weekend NotesA community newspaper editor flips through his notebook on a Canada Day-Bikers Reunion event that was a three-day weekend for some, a four-day weekend for others, and for the rest, the usual two-day weekend and a working-day Monday but with an unusual day off on
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Sunshine on the clothesline
Speaker Reporter Darlene WroeIt happens to many of us. A spouse dies. According to statistics, often it is the husband who dies first. So it’s most often the woman who is left behind. Somehow, it seems, it is happening earlier and earlier in our lives. That’s scary.
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Letter to the editor
Englehart food bank says thanksDear Editor:Another successful food drive was held by the M.N.R. with 345 items and almost $200 for the Englehart Food Bank.Donations like this keep the food bank able to supply the clients with food each week.Donations from the Food Forever fund
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Letter of the week
Not so Happy Canada Day for a million CanadiansDear EditorOn this Canada Day, July 1, 2014 over one million Canadians will become second- class citizens.There is nothing to celebrate regarding the FATCA IGA that the Canadian government signed and stealthily rammed through parliament, and nothing to
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Graduating classes
This week marks the end of school for many area students as they attend their graduation commencements.They have been supported in their learning endeavors by the various schools, school boards, teachers, educational assistants, parents, caregivers and their respective communities.It is a bittersweet time in
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From the Editor’s Desk
This weekendThe New Liskeard Bikers Reunion.Technically it began in 1999.Officially it’s now celebrating its 11th anniversary and it has become not only a mainstream community event but it can be categorized as one of Northern Ontario’s premier attractions.Included in this week’s Speaker we have a
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Letter of the Week
Hunting’s waning perceptionDear Editor:RE: Englehart Echoes, published in The Temiskaming Speaker May 21, 2014With the great relish of the uninformed, Mr.[Bud] Colquhoun proclaims the “pendulum is swinging” against the public’s perception of hunting.Portraying hunters as bloodthirsty killers more interested in thrills than meat has been
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From the Editor’s Desk
Political NotebookPerception is everything in politics. Another example is the June 12 Ontario election results. As the polls closed, politicians, pundits and political observers were bracing for a long night as most indicators had the Liberals and the Progressive Conservatives in the proverbial “virtual tie”. Scenarios ran from
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Attack ads and Hudak a lethal combination
by Wayne GreenAfter a campaign featuring the nastiest display of negative advertising in my memory, the Liberal Party is back firmly in command of government in Ontario. The attack ads, funded by the Liberals and an assortment of public sector unions, were not totally responsible for the election
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