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Tolerance and diversity will be celebrated this June as Thunder Bay will have its first organized pride week celebration.

"Oui, oui ,” said the students at Ecole Gron Morgan on Thursday, when asked if they were enjoying their Carnival experience. And why not, when learning about another culture is made fun.

With half of all arrests in Thunder Bay last year attributed to public intoxication, the city is looking for solutions to its substance abuse problem.

Hospitals across Ontario are less than two months from the start of the next fiscal year, yet they have no idea how much money they’ll have to spend.

If the city tourism department wants to sell the city to the world, they have to sell it to their own citizens first, said tourism manager Paul Pepe.

If council was forced to vote on the proposed 2011 municipal budget tomorrow, the mayor says he would vote it down. Mayor Keith Hobbs said a proposed 1.

Police are looking for a man who offered a 13-year-old girl a ride. Thunder Bay Police Service officers say the girl was offered a ride by a man in a pickup truck around Regina Avenue and Birch Grove Drive just after 3 p.m. Wednesday.

The Thunder Bay District Social Services Administration Board has named its new Chief Administrative Officer. Melissa Harrison comes to Thunder Bay after formerly serving with the North Simcoe Muskoka LHIN and the Timiskaming DSSAB.

Ontario is not looking good as the location of a much-sought-after ferrochrome processing facility. Thunder Bay’s outlook is downright bleak, though the city is not entirely out of the running.

Conservatives killed a motion tabled by MP John Rafferty Wednesday that the NDP member hoped would turn critics of his pension bill into supporters.