Seasonal ThoughtsHow many of us thought, “Hey, there’s no need to rush putting snow tires on until at least the first week of December. Look at the past couple of years when we had a late snowfall.”?In yours truly’s case an appointment with the garage
Where to shop?Less than two hours after Remembrance Day services concluded in downtown New Liskeard, workers were out on Whitewood Avenue wrapping seasonal decor around the lampposts.The Christmas season in Temiskaming is officially underway.Already we see many of our businesses, either externally or internally, having their places
Odds and endsMike BabcockWe look for local connections where we can.Currently the biggest name in Canadian hockey coaching circles is Mike Babcock.Not only is he the head coach of the highest-profile sports team in Canada – the Toronto Maple Leafs – Mike Babcock coached
Melanie EthierA lot of the focus in The Speaker this week is updating, looking back, and commenting on the September 29, 1996 disappearance of 15-year-old Melanie Ethier of New Liskeard.It’s been 20 years and the mystery remains, what happened?On our front page this week reporter Sue
On CorrectionsIt’s been said that The Temiskaming Speaker has one of the best correction policies in journalism. If a mistake is made in one of our news stories, and we’re made aware of it, we run a correction and try to have it placed in the
Trevor Holliday’s PartyUpon hearing this summer of a new political party for Northern Ontario, with a goal of creating a new province of Northern Ontario, the first thought that crossed the mind was, “Hey, whatever became of the Northern Ontario Heritage Party? The party that fielded candidates
Remembering Fred DeaconTraditionally the period from Labour Day to Christmas marks the busiest time of year for virtually all segments of Temiskaming society.While we look ahead at this time of year, events also make us look back. A lot of us in this community were
Our lone summer OlympianThere’s a bit of a tradition that every four years during the Summer Olympics this space and the Across The Years photo of that issue notes the achievement of this area’s only Canadian Olympian.The story of New Liskeard’s Mary Vandervliet Graydon is a sports
The way we voteOver the summer a parliamentary committee is to look at ways of changing our traditional system of electing MPs.To most Canadians, there is nothing wrong with the process in which we elect our party representatives . Or, to be more precise, there
Eyewitness AccountsHow often do we hear a media report, quoting “eye-witnesses” for example, about a police shooting? How often do we then hear the “eye-witnesses” were wrong. No, they didn’t deliberately lie, they were wrong but they honestly believed what they were saying was true.Looking back over
