Letters to the Editor

In a long overdue exercise, the city is about to start thinking more seriously about its trash. It’s high time.

To the editor: As we bring in the new, our curbsides and bins fill with all the old — the unwrapped, the used and the discarded. In fact, Ontario resident and businesses produce over 12.5 million tonnes of waste every year.

Mothers of peewee hockey players across the country are heaving a sigh of relief. They are applauding Hockey Canada’s decision to ban body checking for 11 and 12 year olds.

To the editor: If the city of Thunder Bay had a Costco, I think our trips that way might be more often. The only reason we go there now is for medical trips.

To the editor: I was disturbed and disappointed to read the letter from Brian Roberts (Bike Lane Issue) in last week’s paper: disturbed that Roberts would frame his concerns with such a personal attack on Adam Krupper, and disappointed that the

A year ago on Tuesday, disaster struck the City of Thunder?Bay. Rain fell from the heavens in epic proportions, all but destroying the city’s water pollution control plant.

To the editor: As a resident of Thunder Bay who has been affected by the flood in many ways, I have to agree that the strong outpouring of generosity from the vast majority of our community has been not only a source of strength for those of us who h

To the editor: I have happily been a lifelong resident of Thunder Bay. There are many things I'm proud of in our city.

To the editor: Citizens today are more educated, skeptical and capable of understanding the subtle and not so subtle nuances contained within media releases and commentary of their elected representatives.

Do honey bees carry road maps? I only ask this question because adult worker bees seem to be getting lost on their way back to the hive and honey bee colonies all around the world are in crisis. So are human colonies.