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The man accused of going on a stabbing spree at a Port Arthur apartment building won’t appear in court again until next month. Eli John appeared at the Thunder Bay Ontario Court of Justice on Tuesday.

A local businessman has brought hundreds of pieces of Aboriginal artwork out of storage and onto the walls of Port Arthur Collegiate Institute.

There has to be unity amongst the First Nations in order to move forward on Ring of Fire development, said Nishnawbe Aski Nation Grand Chief Stan Beardy.

The Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre has been ranked one of the top 40 research hospitals in Canada.

Teenagers are often the forgotten ones at Christmastime, said Maj. Mervyn Halvorsen, executive director of the local Salvation Army.

A man was bounced from council chambers during a debate about deer Monday. City council, in a 10-3 decision, passed a recommendation that will see a by-law come before them allowing deer to be hunted by bow in certain areas of the city.

The Hells Angels' loss is a community group's gain. City council unanimously voted Monday night to approve Evergreen a United Neighbourhood’s plan to convert the former Hells Angels clubhouse on Heron Street into a community space.

An inquest has been denied by the Regional Coroner's office into the murder of Antoinette Lavoie. Lavoie was shot to death in her Murillo home last December by her husband, who then took his own life.

While it may lack the dramatic fireworks of a Maury Povich talk show episode, the director of a local lab says he'sexcited to find out whether a 42-year-old-man is actually the son of former prime minister John Diefenbaker.

City solicitor Rosalie Evans is taking a one-year sabbatical from her municipal job to focus on labour relations law. Evans will spend 2012 working for Thunder Bay law firm Weiler Maloney Nelson. Her temporary absence is effective Jan.