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A Thunder Bay man arrested just before Christmas after a fatal auto-pedestrian collision may drive again.

After four years at the helm of the Thunder Bay Catholic District School Board, John De Faveri is planning to spend his retirement with his granddaughters and playing as much golf as possible.

After two minutes in a pair of high-heeled shoes, firefighter George Wilson was feeling his calves burn. “I don’t know how (women) do it for longer periods of time,” he said. “Those shoes were a little tight.

Thunder Bay’s area jobless rate saw a sharp increase last month. According to Statistics Canada, the unemployment rate for March was seven per cent. That's an increase from 6.5 per cent in February.

Not much activity to report on the new home construction front in Thunder Bay last month. Officials with Canada Mortgage and Housing say there was just one new single detached start recorded in March in this area.

The city should get out of the golf game or at the very least only have one course, says a city councillor. Coun.

Peter Collins will be chief of Fort William First Nation for a seventh term. Collins said although he originally wasn’t going to run in Thursday’s election, he is now glad that he did.

It’s Diane Mitchell’s $94,000 nightmare. “It’s the first time we’ve ever had to tell a family they’re not going to get a home,” she said, tears starting to flow. “It’s hard to do.

At 17, Deena Martin thought she had it all. A budding artist headed toward a university basketball scholarship, Martin thought she was invincible. Then the unthinkable happened. Ten years later Martin has been cancer-free for a decade.

Thunder Bay's leaders of the tomorrow are putting their input into the city's strategic plan.