Ups and downs

Parking in winter can be a challenge – snowbanks push vehicles away from sidewalks, sometimes drivers and passengers have to trudge over snowbanks when there’s no footpath shovelled through the snow.Now imagine you’re a driver with a handicap and you have to make your way over difficult terrain.Now imagine

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That was fast

By Steven LarocqueThe announcement last week that Canada had decided to sign a revised Trans Pacific Partnership agreement, without the United States as a signatory, was big and interesting news.With our Prime Minister in Davos, Switzerland, and American president Donald Trump about to arrive, news watchers were on the lookout

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Serious snow

Winter in Temiskaming means cold temperatures and snowfall.That’s about as basic as it gets.Plenty of people will gripe and moan when either occurs.You have to plug in the car, dress in layers, waddle along in heavy and cumbersome clothes and generally feel uncomfortable for stretches of time.The snow means shovelling,

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Resolution dissolution

Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter In my ongoing drive to declutter, I recently opened a plastic storage bin and discovered a copy of the Ottawa Citizen I’d picked up January 1, 2000.Ah, the Millennium (or not…experts in the field insist it began January 1, 2001).I remember watching the television coverage that began December

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