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Ontario has purchased 65 new bi-level GO Train cars, a $255 million order, to be built at the city's Bombardier plant.

The Terry Fox monument is an important part of the national hero's legacy but it's no museum nor could it be, says the city's tourism manager.

Thomas Mulcair said he didn't appoint Bruce Hyer to a shadow cabinet post because he thought the area MP was unreliable. Hyer agrees. "He could not rely on me to park my brain at the door of the House of Commons.

Adam Kolisnyk says his dad’s a great guy. It’s hard to argue that after Ted Kolisnyk handed his son the keys to a brand new 2014 Acura ILX, the top prize in this year’s Save a Heart Car Raffle.

The City of Thunder Bay is looking at borrowing more than $8 million to complete the next phase of the four-laning of the Golf Links-Junot Avenue corridor.

Two people were arrested on animal cruelty charges after police responded to a complaint Wednesday. Thunder Bay Police Service officers attended a May Street apartment just after 9 p.m. after receiving a complaint about possible cruelty to animals.

As a college, Confederation can only do so much to get people into the trades and address a skills shortage in the region. President Jim Madder said if he could he would double the number of tradespeople the college puts out.

Lyn McLeod says the political world is still a male-dominated one, something she’d like to see start to shift in the other direction.

A pair of local politicians each support the idea of an event centre in Thunder Bay, but say it’s too early in the process to know if there’s money at the federal and provincial levels to pay for it.

Every time Gary Ferguson thinks about smoking, he remembers how much he's gained since quitting. Ferguson, a project consultant at Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, was a heavy smoker. He'd smoke three packs a day sometimes.