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SUDBURY––The battle lines are drawn in the labour dispute between the Rainbow District School Board and its secondary school teachers as represented by their union, the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation, but those battle lines face a no-fly zone dictated by the...

To the Expositor: I am undeniably a lover of animals. I have no children, so my animals are my children (two dogs and one cat). And honestly, I probably have more patience with animals. This is why I am writing this letter, to state my opinion and hear other opinions on a matter...

December 11, 1916 – November 17, 2012 The family is saddened to announce the unexpected, but peaceful death of Nellie, surrounded by love, on a sunny November afternoon, just three weeks short of her 96th birthday. Wife of the late Lawrence Thompson (2004). Mother of Carl (Donna)...

1931-2012 In loving memory of James Henry Holmes, a resident of Manitowaning who died peacefully at the Manitoulin Health Centre on Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at the age of 81. Survived by wife Margery (nee Noon) and children Peggy (Terry McKinney), Brian (Debbie), Michael...

ESPANOLA–The Ministry of Natural Resources Sudbury District, in partnership with College Boreal, will be running a voluntary deer check station in Espanola this year to sample deer taken during the Manitoulin deer hunt from November 19 to 25. The objective of the deer check...

TORONTO—While acknowledging the catastrophic affects Asian carp could have on the Great Lakes if they establish there, and the need for measures having been and to be taken to prevent them from doing so, the executive director of the Canada-Ontario Invasive Species Centre (COISC)...

DAWSON TOWNSHIP—Tony Clement, minister for FedNor, has announced a Government of Canada investment of $394,000 toward the Meldrum Bay waterfront development project that will enhance tourism, create jobs and strengthen the economy of the Township of Dawson and the entire...

GORE BAY—With a reduction in snowplowing services announced by the Ministry of Transport (from its new contractor DBi Services) and one less plow for Manitoulin highways, the Town of Gore Bay has been forced to hire an additional permanent full-time public works staff member, as...

EVANSVILLE—Burpee-Mills Township will be appealing its property value assessment (through the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation) for the Misery Bay Provincial Park, which has been decreased and will likely mean payment in lieu of taxes the township had been receiving...

ONTARIO–Our waterways are safe from the fearsome snakehead for now–the voracious invasive predator–thanks to the joint investigative operation ‘Operation Serpent.’ Following a multi-agency, international undercover operation, a Toronto man and a...