SUDBURY / ESPANOLA--The Ontario Police (OPP) is advising the motoring public that all area Provincial Highways are closed due to road and weather conditions which are expected to continue throughout the day. All major highway in the Sudbury and surrounding area are closed All major highways in the Warren and Noelville area are closed The Public are asked to stay off the roads. We are trying our best to have ...

To the Expositor: Aanii, hello, to all my non-aboriginal relations. Greetings from your neighbors at Whitefish River First Nation. I am Chief Shining Turtle of the Sturgeon clan of Whitefish River First Nation of the Anishinabe. My heart is filled with excitement, pride and heaviness these days. I am proud of our people, and the peaceful way that round dance drums are beating across this country to bring a ...

To the Expositor: For a few years now I have been noticing that after a fall of snow, the highways are often not safe to drive for a number of hours. This is in spite of the fact that salt has been dropped on the road by the maintenance truck(s). It seems that, in the past few years, there has been a change in how the salt is delivered to the highway. I realized this during the Christmas holidays when follo ...

SUDBURY––It was smiles all around at an elegant wrap-up reception held at Verdecchio’s Ristorante in Sudbury, where a $50,000 donation from Lafarge Eastern Canada to the Manitoulin Health Centre’s (MHC) capital fundraising campaign was announced. The Lafarge Eastern Canada donation proved to be the icing on the cake to cap off the wildly successful campaign, pushing the tally over the $1 million mark. “Lafa ...

MANITOWANING—The ice is being made in preparation for the third annual Manitoulin Pro Challenge in Manitowaning. Race committee chairperson and South East Manitoulin Lions Club President Harold Clarke said the warmer weather a few weeks ago gave them a little bit of a set back, but with the recent below-seasonal temperatures they’re right back on track. “We lost half our ice,” he said. “But we should be at ...

TORONTO––The storied confines of Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto have played witness to the unfolding of many historic moments, usually involving the boys of winter, but this weekend a historic political event took place beneath its rafters as delegates to the Ontario Liberal Party leadership convention gathered to replace Ontario Liberal leader and Premier Dalton McGuinty. Those delegates chose to elect Kath ...

To the Expositor: This letter is a reminder to all Islanders that the Canadian government will stop the circulation of our penny on February 4, 2013 and businesses will be expected to round bills up or down to the nearest next cent. For example, an article that costs $1.02 should now cost $1.00 and an article that costs $1.04 should be rounded up to $1.05 and so on. For some time now, the volunteers at Mani ...

LITTLE CURRENT—The 19A Water Street (methadone) Clinic in Little Current will be permanently closing its doors Friday, February 15 after the Northeast Town contacted the clinic building’s owners, Robinson’s Pharmacy Group, earlier this month informing them that the clinic must stop dispensing methadone within 30 days at that location or the company would be charged with nuisance under the municipality’s byl ...

To the Expositor: Well, everyone, you live and learn so never think you won’t have any more new and transforming experiences because as long as you are conscious and leave yourself open to change you can learn to see the world anew. I used to think I was good at Buddhism having read widely and thought long about it since my mid teens. But I see now that until I was truly elderly and past my three score year ...

Kathleen Wynne as Ontario’s new premier, a job she inherits by dint of being elected leader of the governing Liberals, takes on the dual roles of being a suspicious person for some, such as many of Ontario’s public servants who will be inclined to see her only as a part of the McGuinty establishment with all its baggage, while others will see her as the main hope for the Liberal brand to remain popular in O ...