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Dear sir: As a taxpayer and a resident of Northwestern Ontario, I am extremely disappointed in the recent response from the leader of the NDP and the MPP for this riding when the issue of the spring bear hunt was presented to the candidates. With all the written requests from […]

Dear editor: I am writing in regards to the comments generated from the article, “Thunder’s fate could lie with election,” which appeared in the Sept. 3 edition of the Fort Frances Times. I am a member of Couchiching First Nation who is proud to see and hear about the things […]

Dear sir: Last Wednesday you published my comments about travel grants. On Friday, I was stopped in the clinic by a very irate patient who had just had a travel grant refused. I will not mention names for reasons of confidentiality. I do have permission, from him and his wife, […]

Dear sir: Well, enough is enough from the “spin doctors” on town council and administration. I cannot believe the things that the current town council and administration have done, and continue to do, which cost us taxpayers significant amounts of money. As a local taxpayer, I have watched in horror […]

Dear editor, When, in 1996, the federal government tabled legislation to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act to add sexual orientation as a prohibited ground of discrimination, our MP, Mr. Robert Nault, and other politicians assured Canadians that this would not affect the definition of marriage. Mr. Nault’s own press […]

Dear sir: As a new provincial election rolls around, taxpayers have to carefully consider what sort of government they want running their province for the next several years. Do they want a government that employs an anti-Robin Hood policy, whose philosophy seems to be “Take from the poor and give […]

Dear sir: I was left in a state of shock after reading the article in the Fort Frances Times last Wednesday about the town having to pass a motion to dip into reserve funds to correct some monumental financial errors. Revenues underestimated. And expenses obviously out of control. As owner […]

To the editor: I have read with some interest the latest news releases and rhetoric from both our Tory candidate and from the Ernie Eves political machine itself. If we were to believe the Tories’ statement, “McGuinty’s plan would see a tax increase in the average household of $1,100.” This […]