Opinion

To the Editor: It's now two years since I confronted NDP Minister of Health Theresa Oswald with a then two-year old report on maternity care outlining the "troubling regional disparities" in Northern Manitoba.

Canadian Mutual Aid Resource Sharing Agreement: Not a very exciting name, we agree. But every summer it proves in one or more hot spots in Canada to be one of the more important agreements most of us will never read.

It's vacation time

Thanking our forest firefighting crews

"Never waste a crisis," the oft-quoted remark made last November in the midst of the global financial meltdown by Rahm Emanuel, U.S. president Barack Obama's chief of staff, is, as those things go, both prescient and cynical.

It would be great if we could have a society that provides for a high standard of well being for its citizens.

It's no surprise to people who have been around Thompson for awhile that the people who work at the Juniper Centre are a very dedicated and committed bunch.

Thursday evening conversation group at Northern Spirit Manor recently started like this somebody said, "The handkerchiefs we tie-dyed on Tuesday are too nice to use" and somebody else said, "I wouldn't mind blowing my nose in a handkerchief like that

The Bayline and Port of Churchill: An important part of our past, present and future

How I spent part of my summer vacation