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Opinion: Northern highway safety a 'never-ending battle to fight'

Opinion: Northern highway safety a 'never-ending battle to fight'

'The main area of concern has moved from winter maintenance to commercial truck traffic,' writes Timiskaming-Cochrane MPP John Vanthof in a year-end column
Letter: Grand plans on hold for Porcupine hotel

Letter: Grand plans on hold for Porcupine hotel

While a feasibility study determined the community can't support a hotel, the group behind the push still says 'never say never'
Letter: Another option for Remembrance Day crosswalk design

Letter: Another option for Remembrance Day crosswalk design

Reader suggests alternative to using the poppy
Letter: Group urges action on truck driver training, enforcement

Letter: Group urges action on truck driver training, enforcement

'The safety of all road users depends on ensuring that only qualified and properly trained drivers are behind the wheel of commercial vehicles,' writes Truckers for Safer Highways co-founder
Letter: Bring back Timmins' supervised consumption site

Letter: Bring back Timmins' supervised consumption site

Reader urges people to demand mayor, province work together to reduce drug-use harm, save lives
LETTER: Medivacs prove airport's role as critical municipal infrastructure

LETTER: Medivacs prove airport's role as critical municipal infrastructure

'The fact that Kirkland Lake Airport is used routinely for such an essential service ... is something that should be praised,' says the Airport Management Council of Ontario's president and CEO
Letter: Legal clinic urges against encampment evictions

Letter: Legal clinic urges against encampment evictions

'So far as we can tell there is no urgent reason to carry out these evictions,' write clinic staff
Letter: Legal clinic strongly advises Timmins not to apply new bylaw without court order

Letter: Legal clinic strongly advises Timmins not to apply new bylaw without court order

Advocates say the courts have repeatedly ruled that bylaws banning overnight sheltering go against the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Letter: Writing off $1m in unpaid fines 'totally absurd'

Letter: Writing off $1m in unpaid fines 'totally absurd'

Reader lays out suggestions for what the money could have been used for
Letter: Legal clinic urges Timmins council to address needs of people living in encampments

Letter: Legal clinic urges Timmins council to address needs of people living in encampments

'Please be aware that Ontario law hasĀ been clarified and that it has become accepted that such evictions are unlawful underĀ current Ontario law,' writes the group