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It looks like it is going to be another couple of years before the intersection of East and Albert S…
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In addressing in last week’s column council’s 5-4 decision to approve a parking lot lease agreement …
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Last year the city launched a review of parking requirements throughout the municipality, the main o…
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Sault Ste. Marie Police Services confirmed last week that two deaths that occurred in the city on Ma…
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The man who, in defiance of military brass, blew the whistle on atrocities committed by members of t…
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I have a suggestion for the United Steelworkers who have launched a lawsuit against the Group Health…
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By the time you read this a plan to save the YMCA, which has operated in this city since the year 19…
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There is a lesson to be learned from the tent cities set up on university grounds by the pro-Palesti…
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I’m having more than a little trouble buying the answer interim CEO John Haddock and board member Ja…
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Premier Doug Ford probably made a lot of people happy with his recent proposal to address the housin…
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I said a while back that I was not known as a guy who was in favour of hanging them high and hanging…
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In my column last week in regard to the Northern Health Travel Grant, I left hanging a question abou…
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I’m not about to issue a major complaint here about the 73-32 defeat in the Ontario Legislature of A…
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I will try not to get maudlin today but I feel I have to talk about the wonderful woman I lost last …
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There is harsh criticism being thrown at the Group Health Centre these days for derostering 10,000 p…
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I’m not known as a guy who is in favour of hanging them high and hanging them often when it comes to…
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Mayor Matthew Shoemaker and council undoubtedly had the best of intentions when they voted to apolog…
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I think the OPP has to loosen its criteria when it comes to deciding when an Amber Alert should be i…
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Sometimes the best of intentions can go awry and when they do, everyone loses out.And that, to me, s…
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I have found the media silence deafening following the disclosure that the jersey of former Soo Gre…
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I have long had trouble understanding how something that seems so obvious to me doesn’t seem to make…
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In the scheme of things when it comes to the general public, a policeman seizing a journalist’s came…
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Over the years I have read numerous reports of people, always men, who have been released after spen…
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Those calling for a ceasefire in Gaza are doubtless well-intentioned but I think they would maybe lo…
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I was glad to see in news reports that Sault Ste. Marie Mayor Matthew Shoemaker is rejecting the 7.2…
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The celebration of Christmas and Easter is evidence of Canada’s “colonialist” religious intolerance,…
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The thing I like best about the Americans these days is that they make Canadians look so good. I say…
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In the 1968 Stanley Kubrick movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, an astronaut finds the ship’s computer syst…
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Last week in sentencing a Sault Ste. Marie man who struck and killed Laurentian University student A…
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I agreed with the call by the United Nations, made in an emergency session of the General Assembly o…
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The topic today is hate. It is not that I want it to be; I find that it has to be.I don’t understand…
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I agree that Speaker Anthony Rota had to resign for his inexplicable recognition in the House of Com…
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I can’t help but think that Mary Lynn Duguay must look pretty good to members of Prince township cou…
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IN A COLUMN in December I said I was surprised and disappointed to see city council let slide withou…
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I wasn’t going to address this personal issue but I can’t seem to put it out of my mind.Walmart refu…
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Last week Premier Doug Ford said he was standing behind Housing Minister Steve Clark, despite the fi…
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I am finding it hard to believe it myself; I am coming to the defence of Fox News. But there are…
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I sometimes find myself feeling a bit of a hypocrite when I rail about some of the bonuses bei…
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In a report presented to council at its last meeting, Carl Rumiel, Director of Engineering, and Pete…
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I have been associated with journalism for 70 years, going back to 1953 when I began writing sports …
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Reading Dax D’Orazio’s piece in Sault This Week about his trouble trying to wrest information out of…
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It was a good thing to see disgraced OPP officer Jason Redmond finally sentenced last week to six ye…
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In December the Financial Services Regulatory Authority of Ontario (FSRAO) announced that the Ontari…
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It was a lesson learned for a Sault bus rider a couple of weeks back. On weekends get to where yo…
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