Letters to the Editor

To the editor: Last summer, I was going through a rough time in my relationship and was at a point where I needed to make a serious decision. One day, I was driving around aimlessly, my head slow, tired and sore from emotions.

To the editor: I find it interesting that Coun. Ken Boshcoff feels that the criteria for maintaining a city funded facility is that it does not lose money. Perhaps Coun.

It may have been the worst-kept secret in Thunder?Bay, but hopefully Wednesday’s waterfront hotelier announcement will finally keep the naysayers at bay.

Over the Labour Day weekend the government announced $5 million in funding from the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund to create a policy institute for Northern Ontario.

On Friday, Aug. 31, I had the pleasure of announcing, along with my colleague Michael Gravelle, the Northern Policy Institute, to be located at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay and Laurentian University in Sudbury.

"Misdirected levity," says (Thunder Bay Police Service Deputy Chief Andy) Hays? Abhorrent! If it had been that officer's, or any other officer's father, brother or spouse I'm sure they would not have found any "levity"

To the editor: On May 28 of this year an unprecedented disaster hit Thunder Bay. A once-in a-hundred-year storm flooded hundreds of homes and the city’s sewage treatment plant.

Our PM was absolutely delighted to announce the Canada Parks expedition to locate the sunken shipwrecks of the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror. He is trying, as Stan Rogers sang, “To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea.

There’s a big misconception floating around that teachers are rallying and fighting for higher wages. But, say teachers, their real target is the government’s insistence on removing their right to bargain collectively.

To the editor: Some time ago the city stated its case. Our Centennial Conservatory is old and sick, and has to be put down.