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A horrific murder this week in Thunder Bay and a massive mistake by Statistics Canada contributed to an awful week in our region and country.

There are times that you often regret not doing something. I hadn’t thought about this until I received a call from Irene Baranowski at my cottage on the weekend to tell me Mike had passed away.

By Gary Sliworsky
OMAF/MRA Rep.
While driving around the district in the past couple weeks I saw that haying finally managed to get going in a big way.

By Melanie Mathieson
Gardening Guru

As a New Democrat I am a proud supporter of the ‘sustainable development’ of our natural resources. If you are wondering why, then look no further than the massive ecological disaster that occurred this past week at Imperial Metal’s Mount Polley open pit copper and gold mine in British Columbia.
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Just as the horse and buggy changed the mode of transportation, driverless cars are set to change our lives dramatically in the coming decades. We have already witnessed the self-parking vehicle. Google has pioneered a fleet of cars that are currently travelling hundreds of thousands of miles to prove that they are safe on the road. The future will offer huge potential savings to people and the trucking industry.
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By Walter Wagner
President

By Gary Sliworsky
OMAF/MRA Rep.

By Melanie Mathieson
Gardening Guru

There is a deeply tragic series of events that has led to economic exclusion and physical endangerment of the people of the Grassy Narrows and Wabaseemoong First Nations on their own territory. It is completely unacceptable and the fault for this lies exclusively with the Crown.

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