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Letters to the Editor


LETTER: City police need Aboriginal policing services unit

Why can't the Thunder Bay Police Station have an Aboriginal Policing Services Unit like the Toronto Police Headquarters? It will help build positive communications instead of reactionary attitudes.
OPINION: Clean drinking water as election promise highlights national embarrassment

OPINION: Clean drinking water as election promise highlights national embarrassment

We should all be ashamed that access to clean drinking water needs to be an election promise.
OPINION: A barbaric cultural practices tip line is political quicksand

OPINION: A barbaric cultural practices tip line is political quicksand

As a young child of the ‘80s and early ‘90s, I often worried that quicksand was a much greater threat than it actually turned out to be.

LETTER: Build it, they will come?

We will not attend anything held at the New Event Centre. Others might. If you add up the area population to get a total of a drawing number, you should subtract the 60 or more per cent who are against the building of the centre.
Welcome to the bandwagon, sit down and stay awhile

Welcome to the bandwagon, sit down and stay awhile

As I write this, the Blue Jays hold the best record in the American League and are on the cusp of – with a single win or Yankee’s loss – clinching the American League East division title.

EDITORIAL: Changing MPAC from the inside may be fantasy

When Dryden Mayor Craig Nuttall resigned to take a job advising his nemesis, the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation, reporters had to ask if his was a case of, “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em?” Nuttall said no.

LETTER: Event centre Plan B a bad deal for taxpayers

To the editor: The Concerned Taxpayers of Thunder Bay believe that Plan B for a proposed event and convention entre is a bad plan for city taxpayers.
EDITORIAL: Simple economic forecast reveals our prejudice

EDITORIAL: Simple economic forecast reveals our prejudice

Don’t look now, but your xenophobia is showing. Late last week, the North Superior Workforce Planning Board released a report that shows a bleak economic future for this region.

LETTER: Enough is enough with event centre talk

To the editor: This is an open letter to all of those who sit on council. The mayor has announced yet again he wants to push forward with the event centre saying that the government will fund an amateur sports team.

LETTER: Council should defer event centre resolution, allow public to digest request

On Monday night, Keith Hobbs is introducing a resolution under new business to have administration bring back a report to council on how he can proceed with a proposed event centre with Lakehead University as the anchor tenant.
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