Olympic Vacation
Sometimes the best vacations are the ones where you stay right at home.Yours truly returned to work this week after a two-week vacation spent, with the exception of two days in Toronto, right at home. There was no
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Highway 11 is dangerous
Dear Editor:The longer the sorry state of Highway 11 continues, the more it points to a major, if not reckless duty-of-care failure by the Ontario government.For starters, and well before it cancelled The Northlander train service, the Ontario government should have implemented a properly funded program to ensure that Highway
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Balanced information on road safety
Dear Editor:In an effort to present balanced, uneditorialized information, the Northern Safe Roads Coalition would like to make some comments about Highway 11 winter road safety.The Northern Safe Roads Coalition (NSRC) is not only a group of concerned citizens, we represent a group of business leaders, law enforcement, emergency services,
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Choosing good representatives
We are in a challenging time, facing a municipal election, a provincial election, and a federal election all within about the next 20 months. The municipal election is in October of this year, and the federal election is expected in October of the following year. The provincial election could happen
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The Voice Of Number Six
Ontario Minister of Transportation Glen Murray has apologized for the state of highways and said that work is underway to make improvements. Theoretically, by next winter, some Ontario highways are going to see government-owned winter maintenance vehicles out on the highways when conditions exceed what can reasonably be expected of
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No shame, no disgrace
Dear Editor:Permit me to reply to the letters that were critical of my submission re: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).I was surprised that I was accused of “shaming” these folk, of “tearing them down,” etc.THAT was not my intention, nor did I state that.What I wanted to point out is
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Respect and responsibility
Living in a sparsely populated region such as we do, we are much more aware of events around us than others are in other more populated regions.Or are we?The problem with our judicial system is that cases take a long time to get to court.By the time they reach court,
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The connection of all things
[caption id="attachment_1022" align="alignleft" width="200"] Speaker Reporter Darlene Wroe[/caption]My mother was forever singing little songs to her children.I am not really sure we ever quite understood what they meant, but they were always present
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Thank you for your letters
Dear Editor:I would like to say thank you to the two gentlemen who wrote in response to Rev. Wipprecht’s wandering epistle on PTSD and the military in general. They were very kind in their answers to him and very thorough with their explanations.I was very upset when I read Rev.
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Thank you Speaker
Dear Editor:We want to thank The Temiskaming Speaker for the excellent coverage you have once again given our Bethlehem Walk this year. We appreciate the advertising for weeks before the event and the attendance of your reporter each year to document the Walk with great photos. Thank you.We are also
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