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Daughter's donated kidney restores mother's health

WIKWEMIKONG—Nearly three years ago, after being diagnosed with end-stage renal failure and enduring long hours of exhausting dialysis treatments, Charlotte Beaudry was given less than five days to live. Today, she is healthy and thriving, all because of the selfless gift of a kidney donation from her daughter, Sara.

Seven weeks after surgery, mom and daughter are recovering nicely—in their respective homes in Wikwemikong and Toronto—from an early-June surgery that gave the elder Ms. Beaudry a new lease on life.

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Wiky powwow turning 50 this weekend

WIKWEMIKONG—It has been 50 years since the resurrection of the Wikwemikong powwow—sorry, cultural festival—by a group of proud and determined Anishinaabe. Organizers hope that this year will spark another resurgence in the venerable event.

"Everything is looking amazing," said Wikwemikong Heritage Organization cultural programming manager Cynthia Bell.

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A MACMAN MOMENT:Boats round the point at Picnic Island in a race to the finish during final leg of the MacMan race.
photo by Lindsay Kelly

 

Conservatives under fire for census change

OTTAWA—It is the information age and data is king—but if the Conservative government stays the course on proposed changes to the way data is collected at Statistics Canada, many municipal leaders across the country fear that the king may be dead.

So contentious is the decision to axe the mandatory long form, that the chief statistician of Statistics Canada Munir Sheikh took the unusual move of resigning in protest—bringing the largely hidden war between the libertarian ideologies of the ruling Conservatives and the more social engineering inclined bureaucracy out into the open.

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Manitoulin Island's Newspaper-of-Record,
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Northern Ontario's oldest newspaper:
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