By Steven Larocque   It’s interesting to watch the calisthenics being performed by the United States (soon to be joined by Canada?) by announcing a diplomatic boycott of the Winter …

    The Christmas season is upon us and homes and businesses are decorated to light the dark evenings of early winter. It is beautiful to look at, but the …

By Darlene Wroe For the week of November 17 to 24, our editor was on vacation and I was managing the content and layout of the Weekenders and Speaker that …

    North Americans went through the annual gorge-fest known as Black Friday last week as the Christmas consuming (over-consumption?) season gets started in earnest. Many in Northeastern Ontario likely …

Concerns are rising across the district along with the numbers of known cases of COVID-19. A steep increase in numbers is being seen, and it is suspected by the Timiskaming …

By Steven Larocque If you’re reading this on the Wednesday The Speaker is published, I’m still on vacation. I’m using up five vacation days and I’ll be back at work …