A little off the rails
By Joe O’Grady  No one can fault the provincial government for its seemingly earnest efforts to make passenger rail service a viable option again for Northern Ontario. …
Money, money everywhere
 Last week there was the news that the federal government is making good on its commitment to provide Electra Battery Materials with $20 million in funding. This will …
Editorial cartoon May 6
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Hello Year 2046
By Gordon Brock On the topic of how The Temiskaming Speaker is being read not just by present-day readers but by future ones as well – let’s imagine if …
Stepping up
 The municipal election season is here in Ontario with the nomination period open as of May 1. The vote is scheduled for Monday, October 26. It’s one of …
Editorial cartoon April 29
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All aboard for transportation improvements
 Politics make strange bedfellows, they say, and that partially explains why Timiskaming-Cochrane NDP MPP John Vanthof and the Ontario Conservative government are on the same page with the …
Odds and ends
By Steven Larocque The son of friends of mine is applying for college this fall and that brought to mind old conversations his dad and I used to get …
Editorial cartoon April 22
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‘Our City’ predicted a century ago
By Joe O’Grady During a recent trip through The Speaker archives, I was surprised to see a prescient little tidbit on the front page of the June 24, 1926, …
