Dear sir: An open letter to the Hon. David Johnson, minister of Education and Training, re: Bill 160–a bill to defraud the students of Ontario of their right to a quality education; a bill designed to concentrate fiscal and decision-making power in the hands of one man based in Toronto. […]
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Dear editor: To begin, I would like to thank a close friend of the family for telling me to write this letter. Without his insistence, I may never have had the courage to do this. I am a mother of three and a teacher of many. Last week, I broke […]
Dear editor: It is a sad commentary on our democratic society when one refrains from making public comment that runs counter to the apparent majority for fear of backlash or reprisals against one’s children. However, after one week of the teacher’s illegal strike and no end in sight, I have […]
Those who have been spearheading the “Ice for Kids” movement here for the past six years earned a well-deserved standing ovation from the crowd of supporters on hand at the Civic Centre on Monday night. The applause, coming after council approved $5 million for the town’s share of a double-rink […]
Dear sir: On Nov. 10, during the municipal election, we, the voters of Fort Frances, will be given the opportunity to stop the proliferation of gambling in Fort Frances. We will be asked if we support video lottery terminals (VLTs) and the establishment of a charitable gaming club in our […]
Dear sir: I’m really too busy to have to deal with this right now but I can’t sit back and watch our education system go down the toilet. Now that John Snobelen is out of the picture, we can’t use him as a scapegoat any more but now we have […]
Dear sir: Historically, the Ministry of Natural Resources has been responsible for the management and stewardship of our lakes and forests. Recently, a business relationship initiated between the provincial government and various forest products’ companies transferred the responsibility for forest management planning from the MNR to the corporate sector. Recent […]
Dear sir: I read with great interest Cliff McIntosh’s article (Future: Trending and Tending) in the Fort Frances Times. I agree with almost everything in the article. I have been cutting pulpwood for over 60 years, not of great amount per year to be sure at this time and have […]
Dear sir: A letter to Mike Harris, in the context of the corporate environment because that seems to be what he understands. Just imagine being required each of your working days to make six 40-minute presentations to groups of about 30 people each, a total of 180 people each day, […]
Dear editor: If the citizens of Ontario accept what the Mike Harris government is doing in this province, how can we stand on Nov. 11 and say “Lest we forget”? I fail to see the difference between what happened in Germany in the late 1930s, which ultimately led to World […]
Dear sir: In the fall of 1995, we circulated a petition in Fort Frances and Northwestern Ontario. It was directed to the National Parole Board requesting that parole be denied to Neil Scott Soutar, convicted of brutally raping two young women in Fort Frances. At the time, he was the […]
