Late Nights and Last Minute Cuts Not the Path to Success THUNDER BAY – EDITORIAL – Thunder Bay City Council ratified the 2015 Budget last night with a 3.18% tax increase. In passing the budget, Council also demonstrated that an entirely new approach to the budget process is needed. Last night as Council gathered to […]

THUNDER BAY – The next meeting of the Public Advisory Committee for the Thunder Bay Remedial Action Plan is scheduled for March 11th at 7 p.m. at the Balmoral Street Centre on the Lakehead campus (Room HS 1029). At the meeting, former MNRF fisheries biologist Terry Marshall will provide an update on the health of Thunder […]

SALZBURG, Austria – The third race of this year’s air racing World Championship will be staged in Rovinj, Croatia. The stop in Rovinj will replace Sochi, Russia, which unfortunately cannot be conducted due to financial and organizational challenges. “It would have been great to host the first Red Bull Air Race in Russia this year, […]

Pipeline proponents feeding the fire that threatens their project OTTAWA – Imagine your house is ablaze and fire fighters are working hard to extinguish the inferno. Might they consider you dangerously insane if, while urging them on, you also threw gasoline into the flames? Crazy though this sounds, it is analogous to what government and industry […]

OTTAWA – LETTERS – Jihadi terrorists have declared war on Canada. They hate us because of our values. They hate us because we love freedom and tolerance. Our government believes police and security forces need to have the tools to combat this threat. This hit home for me last week. A terrorist organization identified the […]

 Forest Sector – Ontario’s Second Largest Industrial Base THUNDER BAY – BUSINESS – The Ontario Forest Industries Association’s (OFIA) 72″d Annual Meeting celebrated the forest products sector’s role as a sustainable economic engine and employment generator in Ontario’s green economy. Opening the event, Jamie Lim, President and CEO of the OFIA, explained ‘By actively choosing […]

OTTAWA – LETTERS – The failure to move the yardsticks on the Keystone XL pipeline falls squarely on the shoulders of Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Mr. Harper’s refusal to implement credible environmental policy over the past nine years has deeply damaged Canada’s economic interests and international reputation. His diplomatic miscues on the Keystone file have made […]

WEENUSK FN – Letters – There is a plan that would see Mushkegowuk Grand Chief Lawrence Martin joining the chiefs of Matawa Tribal Council at the annual Prospector’s and Developers Convention (PDAC) in Toronto next week to outline his plans for a new railway line running from Moosonee to the Ring Of Fire mining project. […]