Letters to the Editor

To the editor: April 10-16 is National Volunteer Week and as Chair of the Ontario Trillium Foundation’s grant review team.

Freedom of speech is apparently under attack. Actually, it isn’t. But there are certainly a number of people in Thunder Bay who believe it is and are convinced I’m the one attacking it.

ONTARIO REGIONAL CHIEF ISADORE STATEMENT: FIRST NATION LEADERS COMMEND FEDERAL HEALTH MINISTER JANE PHILPOTT AND ONTARIO HEALTH MINISTER ERIC HOSKINS ON PRODUCTIVE MEETING ON HEALTH ISSUES (April 1, 2016) On behalf of the Chiefs of Ontario, I want to

Open Letter from Peggy Sattler, Ontario NDP Training, Colleges and Universities Critic Honourable Kathleen Wynne Office of the Premier Main Legislative Building Queen's Park Toronto, ON M7A 1A1 Dear Premier Wynne, I am writing to express my serio

To the editor: March 22 is federal budget day. Hopefully, the long-awaited events centre will qualify for federal funding under the Liberal infrastructure spending plan. If the money is there, I expect things to move rapidly down at the waterfront.

Thunder Bay – Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath wrapped up a successful tour of Northwestern Ontario.

Queen’s Park – Today, Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said that families in the north deserve fair access to health care, and called on the Premier to explain why the Liberal government is increasing drug costs for struggling seniors ac

The proposed hotel at the Waterfront appears to be in a state of limbo. This is the same hotel that was to have been built before the condos and the same hotel that was to open in the spring of 2014.

What about people who live at or below the poverty line? How would they be affected by putting toll roads in place ? We need to look at keeping all of the property that the city owns under the City of Thunder Bay umbrella.

Thunder Bay – After meeting with Thunder Bay health care professionals, Nickel Belt MPP France Gélinas, the NDP’s critic for Health and Long Term Care, demanded the Wynne government stop denying that its 2016 budget will result in