Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter [caption id="attachment_2733" align="alignleft" width="250"] John Vanthof[/caption]DISTRICT – Temiskaming’s MPP says it’s not too late for the province to cancel plans to sell further sales of Hydro One shares.
Ontario Northland bus route cuts concern MPPDarlene Wroe Speaker Reporter DISTRICT -- Timiskaming-Cochrane MPP John Vanthof is expressing concern that Ontario Northland’s direction on the motor coach service will result in “a self-sustaining prophecy in which it is just going to wither and die”.Ontario Northland has recently
Diane Johnston Speaker Reporter TEMISKAMING SHORES – There have been some staffing changes at city hall.Temiskaming Shores Mayor Carman Kidd confirmed that three staffers – community growth and planning director Karen Beauchamp, chief building official (CBO) Norm Desjardins, and bylaw and property standards officer Matt Del Monte –
BY WAYNE GREENTrudeaumania 2 is an intriguing concept for someone who observed the original political phenomenon back in 1968. Although the Liberal sweep of election races across Canada on October19 has not generally been given this suggested title in media reports, there are certainly similarities in Justin Trudeau’s
Anthony Rota wins back Nipissing-Timskaming seatDarlene Wroe Speaker Reporter NORTH BAY -- Close to 300 people in a sea of red stood and sang O Canada at the Davedi Club in North Bay Monday evening, October 19.“one people whose differences don’t divide us - they make us
The theme of the October 19 federal election campaign – one of the longest and the most expensive in Canadian history – was that two-thirds of Canadians wanted change.But the question was: would that change go to one party or it would be split allowing the nine-and-a-half year
Aspin reflects on his term and his futureDarlene Wroe Speaker Reporter NORTH BAY -- Nipissing-Timiskaming MP Jay Aspin was gracious as he reflected on the loss of the riding Monday evening, October 19, to Liberal Anthony Rota.Meeting with about 50 of his supporters who had gathered at Boston
Gordon Brock Speaker Editor NORTH BAY – Nipissing-Timiskaming Green Party candidate Nicole Peltier has mixed feelings about the results of the October 19 election.Ms. Peltier finished fourth out of four candidates, collecting 1,277 votes, or three per cent of the vote.During an election night telephone interview from
Steven Larocque Speaker Reporter NORTH BAY – The Liberal juggernaut that swept through the country on election night also captured Nipissing-Timiskaming along the way.“I think it was a national statement on how people felt about Stephen Harper’s Conservatives,” said New Democrat candidate Kathleen Jodouin in a telephone interview
A slow but steady stream of voters, like Tanya Langford-Paquette, made their way to Northern College in Haileybury to vote on election day, October 19. The Nipissing-Timiskaming riding, according to Elections Canada, saw turnout increase by about six percentage points from 2011 to approximately 69 per cent. (Staff photo
