Everybody has their own personal reason for getting involved in the Terry Fox Run.
If you go down to the North Bay waterfront Sept. 13, you’ll see families and individuals register and then set off for whatever length of walk, run or roll suits them.
As a reporter, I’ve been there to ask people one simple question: [...]

The Soo just authorized its top mandarin to pen a new bylaw forbidding smokers from lighting up at parks and playgrounds.
North Bay should embrace this expanded smoking ban zone.
While many puffers have the brains and respect to go down wind or off to the side for a nicotine hit, too many don’t.
And as a parent [...]

Little dogs don’t do it for me. I didn’t even know how to spell Chihuahua until a puppy was listed in the Monday morning police report. It was one of the items stolen in a break-in this weekend.
To me, the Taco Bell mascot kin look like a cross between a cat and a rat–and I [...]

There’s no peace in Bedrock this summer as North Bay bangs its collective head over a proposed rock quarry.
The showdown at city council Monday is between the Friends of La Vase Portages and the majority of councillors over two different kinds of natural resources.
Paddlers, with Coun. Chris Mayne steering the canoe, are fighting to protect [...]

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The North Bay Baseball Association took a swing at improving its profile in the community and held a tournament this weekend to benefit the North Bay Food Bank.
They picked a good weekend with not much else going on and I just happened to be the reporter on duty Saturday and [...]

Every so often, there’s a slew of news illustrating why it’s important to do a lot of research before buying property or renting a townhouse.
Neighbourly love only goes so far these days and those forested green spaces are only a chainsaw away from becoming beehives of activity and parking lots.
And the devil really is in [...]

There’s an old saying I’m fond of using, although it’s probably considered overtly racist by a strong and vocal population.
Sensitive parties may very likely debate how appropriate it is to use in print or even think. And what do you mean ‘overtly’ racist!”
The phrase in question came to mind yesterday when Prime Minister Stephen Harper [...]

There’s no harmony in the harmonization tax being implemented in Ontario.
It’s the biggest tax grab in provincial history, adding 8% to a long list of products and services previously not taxed by Queen’s Park.
A close second in the record book of tax grabs is the Ontario Health Insurance Program “premium” the Liberals re-initiated.
While we’re told [...]

Critics of Brian Mulroney often fail to give him credit for the positive things he has accomplished.
Take his testimony at the Oliphant commission this week.
If laughter is the best medicine, Mulroney’s take on reality has done more for this country’s health-care system than all the Conservative governments combined.
His explanation for not mentioning at a libel [...]

Coun. Chris Mayne, affectionately nicknamed the Amazing Green Horn by yours truly, has agreed to a little blog debate beginning this afternoon.
The subject is his tried-and-so-far-failed attempt to convince his fellow North Bay councillors to ban plastic water bottles from municipal facilities. The Federation of Canadian Municipalities has since jumped on a similar bandwagon, and [...]