Dear editor: As a parent of teenage hockey players, I have to give credit to our minor hockey program for producing such great opportunities for our children as they grow. In watching them grow and mature in this team setting, I have experienced coaches and programs who inspired my children, […]
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Dear Mr. Editor: As the media is busy commemorating Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee, I find I would like to share a piece of memory with you and your readers. In October, 1951, Her Royal Highness (at that time), Crown Princess Elizabeth, and her husband made a visit to Quebec City. […]
Area tourist camp operators no doubt are fuming over news that disgraced media baron Conrad Black was granted a one-year temporary resident permit by Citizenship and Immigration so he can return to Canada following his release from a Florida prison on Friday. Mr. Black has been serving time for fraud. […]
Sheila Ann Vivie, 51, of Fort Frances, Ont., passed away Wednesday, April 25, 2012 at La Verendrye General Hospital in Fort Frances. Sheila was born on Saturday, July 16, 1960 in Emo, Ont. to the late Wallace and Hilda Wilson. She had worked as a counsellor for Weechi-it-te-win Family Services […]
It appears local MP John Rafferty has seen the light. His reward? A position in the shadow cabinet of NDP leader Thomas Mulcair as the critic for the Northern Ontario Economic Development Initiative (better known as FedNor)—a key responsibility for our region given the recent Tory cuts to the program […]
Well, Mother Nature co-operated for part of Spring Fever Days in Emo! Friday was beautiful and it was nice to see our little town buzzing along. Unfortunately, the weather Saturday wasn’t so great and it certainly made it a long, hard day for the workers at the sales barn in […]
Leave it to me to make a mountain out of a molehill. I may be free of guilt trips and voyages to “regret-ville,” but I certainly haven’t conquered my anxiety when it comes to stepping outside my comfort zone and away from my neck of the woods. I had best […]
Sunday was Earth Day. I hadn’t paid much attention to the day until I watched the news on CBC that evening and saw the parades and people working to cleaning up waterways and parks across Canada. People also planted trees along roadways and replaced fallen trees in parks. In my […]
Local business is the backbone of our community yet sometimes we forget the significant impact our purchasing decisions can have. By purchasing goods at local shops, farmers’ markets, and craft shows, or other items that have been produced in our region, we help keep jobs in our communities. This money […]
Even though Parliament wasn’t sitting, it was quite an eventful week in Ottawa with two new appointments for me and a shadow cabinet announcement by NDP leader Tom Mulcair. It was a great honour to learn that Tom has appointed me to be our caucus critic for the Northern Ontario […]
“To Kill a Mockingbird” is my favourite book of all times. Although a few others have come close, none move me the way Harper Lee’s writing does. I carry the novel around with me like a Bible—a source of inspiration and comfort and hope. I often have it in my […]
Those of you who follow my column likely have read some of my stories about shed hunting in the past and know what I’m talking about. For those of you that have not heard the term shed hunting before, it refers to looking, or “hunting,” for shed deer and moose […]
