Dear editor: What has happened to democracy in Ontario? The Harris government continues to bulldoze over the people of Ontario. Bill 136 and the proposed teachers’ legislation will give the government complete control of the education system and the personnel who work within it. Education workers have struggled for many […]
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Dear editor: The “Dial a Ride” is working. I’m picked up at my residence and let off at my destination, or visa versa, on the hour in the east end and after the hour in the west end. And the price is right. All you need to give is 15 […]
Cliff McIntosh
Nothing is ever as simple as it seems. Here’s an example. Doesn’t it make sense to tend and nurture the commercial forest like a farmer’s fields? Conventional wisdom says of course! But there is a major controversy among professional foresters. Some say to get a greater yield/hectare, the commercial forest […]
With the first frosts of autumn nipping at us, the final harvests of the garden are underway. An unrelenting expenditure of money and labour has resulted in a surplus–if not a bounteous and wanted crop. It started back in June with the first crop of radishes. After gorging on the […]
Oh, they will argue otherwise, saying that they’ve decided to go to the people in November so the “silent majority” can put the bus issue behind us once and for all. But the bottom line is they caved. Blinked. Folded. Wilted under pressure. All because councillors were fed up with […]
Birthdays should never be feared. They should always be celebrated. And I just might be the luckiest person in the whole world when it comes to birthdays. My special day is always celebrated high in the Colorado Rockies. Far away from people, with a total absence of noise and confusion. […]
Sophie Annette Noga, 85, of Rainycrest Home for the Aged, 550 Osborne St., Fort Frances, Ont., passed away at her residence Tuesday, Sept. 9, 1997. She was born Sept. 3, 1912 in Poland to the late Harry and Anastasia Kaproska. Sophie came to Canada in 1928 and settled in Manitoba. […]
Eileen Fay Neal, nee Lamont, passed away suddenly Sept. 7, 1997 in Nanaimo, B.C. Eileen is survived by her daughters, Susan and Nancy; son-in-law, Howard; grandsons, Travis, Tyler, and Daniel; sister, Jessie; brothers, Ken and Robert; mother-in-law, Alice; sister-in-law, Dorothy; and many nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her […]
You can’t blame people living in Northwestern Ontario for being just a little unsympathetic towards last week’s uproar in the centre of the known universe–Toronto–that was sparked by the big jump in gasoline prices. The masses in southern Ontario suddenly were paying about the same price we face at the […]
Dear editor: New curriculum guidelines for math and language are being implemented in elementary classrooms across the province this September. Teachers are not opposed to these new guidelines. Teachers have been asking for new curriculum for many years. However, they are upset with the lack of homework and long-range planning […]
The Ruddy Duck is a curious little duck in very many ways. No other is anything like it, nor even comes close. It is a western species, ranging mainly from southern Manitoba to B.C., and north and south from these. There is a fairly good-sized population in Northwestern Ontario, and […]
A few years back, when I was the sports writer here at the Times, word got out one summer that Wayne Gretzky was in the Fort Frances area. It wasn’t a completely wild premise. The Great One was a teammate of local NHL’er Mike Allison with the Los Angeles Kings […]
