Letters to the Editor

Our American neighbours got a booty call recently when a Nigerian terrorist attempted to blow up a plane and murder almost 300 passengers and crew with his home made underwear bomb.

I had just turned 48 as 2008 ended and Ottawa was in turmoil. A coalition government was in the air or worse the country faced a possible federal election only a few months after the previous one.

It’s 2010 and that means it’s municipal election time in Thunder Bay. Sounds like it could be an interesting one, especially in the race for the mayor’s chair.