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Sitar player Anwar Khurshid is feeling the blues. The musician from Pakistan moved to Canada almost 20 years ago and wanted to break out of the typical Indian music.

A former Buchanan Group employee says he doesn’t understand why he couldn’t get a severance when the company he worked for has received millions of dollars from the province.

Uniformed city police officers undergo another major change in their shift schedule soon.

Local health officials say a visual age indicator strip on driver’s licences would help reduce a growing problem of tobacco and alcohol products getting into underage hands.

A seven-way race for the position of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation’s grand chief has begun.

Sentencing for two teen girls who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in May has been delayed for another two weeks.

A junior mining company wants to put the province back on the map. Rockex Mining Corporation is sitting on 1 billion tonnes of 29 per cent graded iron on deposits near Lake St. Joseph, which sits in between Sioux Lookout and Pickle Lake.

The annual summer break has ended for Thunder Bay’s city councillors.

The province has announced some improvements to a portion Highway 527. Work is expected to begin later this month to rebuild a 25-kilometre stretch of that roadway, starting 98-kilometers north of Highway 11/17. The $7.

Don Campbell says he has no regrets. Looking back at his four-year term, the soon-to-retire TbayTel CEO says he’s proud of where the company stands today, in a rapidly changing telecommunications universe.