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In case you missed it, Health and Long-Term Care minister Tony Clement on Monday released a “comprehensive opinion survey” that detailed Ontarians’ priorities for the future direction of health care. And the results of this so-called “Dialogue on Health” initiative were, well, earth-shattering: Thousands of Ontarians want the government to […]

Yet another murder trial has come up and again the air is full of questions about the most famous one of all here—the so-called “hot stove murder case.” This has hung over our heads like a black cloud although the terrible offence actually was committed some 60 miles east of […]

“I have to do some soul-searching right now. I’m a very frustrated man.” So said Shannon Sharpe, tight end for the Baltimore Ravens, after his team dropped a 27-10 decision to the Pittsburgh Steelers in an AFC divisional final Sunday. That was pretty much my reaction after going 2-2 in […]

Our former reeve, Maurice MacMillan, was released from the Emo Health Centre on Friday after being hospitalized there last week. Feeling much better, I’m sure Maurice will be showing up at the Wheels to Meals carpet bowling, which he enjoys to the fullest. Once again, students at Our Lady of […]

Okay, class, hands up everyone who knows Premier Mike Harris has resigned and the Ontario Progressive Conservatives are in the midst of a leadership race to replace him? Not bad. All right, hands up everyone who can name the five candidates vying to succeed Mr. Harris—and become Ontario’s next premier […]

We were still chasing the Allan Cup in 1951 when I first met Colin Russell in Owen Sound. Now there’s a man right out of our local Atlantis lore! Our Canadians had, by now, broken hockey fans’ hearts all the way to the Pacific, but here we were in the […]

The congregation at the Christian Reformed Church in Emo welcomed Rev. Harold and Joanne DeJong as guest speaker for both the morning and evening worship services last Sunday (Jan. 13). The couple, hailing from Dispatch, Kan., also visited with Harold’s mother, Nellie DeJong, at the Golden Age Manor, as well […]

As most everyone knows by now, after last Saturday, Fort Frances will be forever known to Canadians as the only town in the country to have been founded by the Simpsons. It all started when CBC correspondent Allen Abel, wrapping up a brief live interview with Sambo Fedoruk, captain of […]

Every time you pass the old Fort Frances High School, ask yourself a question: would Rusty Green want to buy that red brick mountain? As it stands here today, big, beautiful, and abandoned—with nobody seemingly interested in whether it lives or dies—why would anyone covet it? And who was Rusty […]

It’s getting a little too easy to be taken in by the romanticist’s view of ice hockey in Canada at this time of year. It’s something CBC’s “Hockey Day in Canada” has been known for in its past two broadcasts: strip down the role of big money and fame, or […]

There’s still time to purchase tickets for the “Sweater of your choice” raffle, organized by the Emo/La Vallee Community Cen-tre fundraising committee, which will be made Jan. 19. The sweater is being hand-knitted by Gail Patterson. After a break for the yuletide season, “Wheels to Meals” resumed its activities last […]

We like to think of ourselves as adventurous, free-spirited, independent beings who long to go wherever the wind may take us. In reality, though, we’re really just pathetic creatures of habit; mired in the cozy security of “the ol’ routine.” And nothing throws a curve ball into the “routine” worse […]