We are NOT Second Class
Dear Editor:We are Northern Ontarians. We breathe, we eat, we sleep. We are living citizens of Ontario like any other. We are all first class, so I believe our main highway (Hwy.11) should be first class as well.There are six classes of highways in Ontario with a Class One highway
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Circumstances involving subcontractors
Dear Editor:Canadian Solar Solutions Inc. wishes to address the circumstances involving subcontractors that have claimed outstanding payments for work performed on, or that is related to, the solar farm projects known as Liskeard 1, 3 and 4 in the area of New Liskeard, Ontario, which have recently become public.Canadian Solar
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A church wedding
Dear Editor:Because of my profession (a United Church minister) I read your wedding supplement (“Forever Yours”) with great interest.It had very good advice about many things, especially the reception. However, there is really no advice about the ceremony, which is, after all, the central act of the day. I don’t
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Keeping the LHIN model
Dear Editor:It’s not every day that a provincial Standing Committee visits one of our communities to gather the opinions and experiences of Northerners. But on Tuesday, February 4, the Standing Committee on Social Policy that is reviewing the legislation that created the Local Health Integration Networks spent the day in
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Making Inroads
Dear Editor:Something to ponder….how is this for an idea?Why not initiate a “PILOT PROJECT” that incorporates a buried electric heater cable into the centre line of two way cold weather highways that normally require extensive plowing, sanding, and salting to alleviate road hazard traffic fatalities?Pros and cons, no more snow-covered
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Groundwork for the future
The City of Temiskaming Shores is working on its official plan.Other communities have also been bringing their official plans into the current times.An official plan allows the public an opportunity to have input into the types of developments they would find acceptable around their community.Without these guidelines, it is possible
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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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