Opinion

If there’s one thing environmentalists hate more than the oil sands and Stephen Harper, it’s wasted water.

The Snow Lake Mining Museum’s original geologist, or “rock doctor,” is hanging up his loupe and is on his way to the balmier climes of northwestern Ontario.

Kelleen Blouin, David Collins’ great-great-granddaughter, delivered this speech on Sunday, Sept.

Dear Editor, North of 53 Consumers Co-op was incorporated in 1946 and the present site has had the store on it since 1949. Many renovations later, it still serves us well. I am a former Co-op board member. I like our store as a consumer.

Culture Days has come and gone. I hope everyone had a wonderful, wonder-filled time exploring the incredible array of local arts and culture that is ongoing in our fabulous communities. Perhaps you even saw the first of the Films Up North (FUN.

Mayor Cal Huntley said what many of us are thinking when he wondered why the province’s Highway 10 project could not be scaled back and the leftover dollars spent on something more pressing.

Late in August, Mayor Kim Stephen advised that she had something in the works that could secure a visit by the Canadian Football League’s Grey Cup to the community.

Dear Editor, Rob Clarke needs to get his facts straight. A recent pamphlet from Clarke’s campaign suggests that the NDP would revive the long-gun registry. That simply isn’t true.

Could northern Manitoba have an MP on the governing side of the aisle for the first time in nearly two decades? Are Flin Flon, Creighton and Denare Beach really Conservative bastions? And to what extent might national support for a particular politic

NDP candidate and incumbent MP Niki Ashton made her first election foray into Snow Lake several weeks back. Ashton met with members of council, talked to constituents and pounded in a few signs.