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Procedure used but still failed
Monday, June 17, 2013

AS many as 200 Thunder Bay properties were without power until late into the night Thursday after a backhoe operator struck a primary electrical cable near High Street and Second Avenue.

A passenger rail service
Sunday, June 16, 2013

Bruce Hyer is trying to get passenger rail returned as a viable way to travel throughout Canada.

Filling up the emptiness
Friday, June 14, 2013

A GROWING complaint about Thunder Bay’s south side involves empty buildings, substance abuse and street crime. Ironically, the problems are leading to solutions.

Let’s get on with it
Thursday, June 13, 2013

HAS it really been three years? Has the Ring of Fire mining development been formally pursued for that long? Perhaps the time seems shorter because so little has been done.

It pays to be a firefighter
Wednesday, June 12, 2013

IF EVER there was an example of the bubble in which provincial labour contract arbitrators live, it has to be the latest decision regarding Thunder Bay firefighters.

No excuse for speeders
Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Over the course of two days last week, Thunder Bay Police officers caught a whopping 144 speeding drivers in the Harbour Expressway’s construction zone.

Students seek fair trade
Monday, June 10, 2013

Thunder Bay — Fair Trade City. Has a nice ring, doesn’t it? That statement could very well become a reality thanks to an organized push by a group of elementary school students.

The public trust takes a bruising
Sunday, June 9, 2013

CONNIVING senators? A secret fund in the Prime Minister’s Office? Chiefs of staff illegally deleting damning emails? Is this Canada and Ontario or some tin pot oligarchy?

Finish Algoma work quickly
Friday, June 7, 2013

WITH all due respect to the complexity of running a multi-million-dollar municipality, didn’t someone — anyone — see trouble ahead when curb extensions were built jutting out into busy South Algoma St

Nickel and dimed
Thursday, June 6, 2013

NOTWITHSTANDING how they surfaced — inadvertently included in a pile of documents released by the province to a committee probing the political cancellation of two gas plants in the same week the priv

Walk to school: Imagine that
Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Canada is in the midst of a weight epidemic. Nearly 60 per cent of adult Canadians are either overweight or obese.

Rethinking garbage
Tuesday, June 4, 2013

THUNDER BAY continues to re-think the issues surrounding its waste with progressive ideas aimed at reducing what goes to landfill and recycling most of what’s left.

It's not fair! That's your excuse?
Monday, June 3, 2013

Thunder Bay drivers are still proving somewhat reluctant when it comes to putting the phone down.