Archive for category: Op-Ed

To the Expositor: The meeting held on Monday, February 13 on the hotel project, as indicated by Aundeck Omni Kaning Chief Patsy Corbiere, was an information session only and consequently, a closed door council meeting held on Tuesday, February 14 was intended to sign off on a “partnership agreement” for [...]

Mike Brown was retired last fall by the Algoma-Manitoulin electorate from his position as member of the Ontario legislature for the Algoma-Manitoulin riding. Even though he had represented Manitoulin Island and the rest of this riding for more than 24 years, people very quickly forget about the accomplishments of “former [...]

To the Expositor: You really do have to question why these people are persisting in writing and talking about how good windmills are. There’s not even that many still left around let alone them even operating on the old farm homestead anyway. I haven’t heard of any anti-windmill groups or [...]

To the Expositor: With regards to the February 8 page 1 article ‘Manitoulin Official Plan review seeks citizens for two-year task,’ the statement, “First Nation communities are not covered by the Official Plan.” I suggest that, in one way or another, the plan does, in fact, impact First Nations simply [...]

To the Expositor: As a director of Wind Concerns Ontario (WCO) I would like to express my sympathies to Rick Martin for being picked on by us and our reputed “fear mongering”! According to his recent contribution (advertisement) (‘Manitoulin Wind News,’ page 5A) on behalf of McLean’s Mountain Wind Farm [...]

To the Expositor: The issue of the wind farms on the Manitoulin Island is obviously one of great concern to many people—both from this area and beyond—with the main debate being whether one is in support or opposition to the project. But there is a side to this story which [...]

To the Expositor: I was walking down Robinson Street this morning and chanced to meet a man from Sudbury. He commented on how well maintained the streets and sidewalks were in Little Current. He said the backstreets in Sudbury were snowy and icy compared to our town’s streets. The gentleman [...]

To the Expositor: I read with interest the article that Shirley Harasym and her daughter want to do a documentary on “the accident of 1980” (“Documentary film to look at 1970 car crash” The Manitoulin Expositor, Page 3, January 18, 2012.) I really hope that they will think long and [...]

The day this commentary is published, February 15, Don Drummond will present his report to the Ontario government offering his recommendations on what measures this province should take to overcome a $16 billion deficit without raising citizens’ tax burden. Depending on one’s point of view, this may or may not [...]

To the Expositor: In a very informative column from the January 7, 2012 edition of the Sudbury Star, writer Mike Whitehouse quotes a most appropriate new buzz word to describe the oncoming surge of the baby boomers as they descend on the Ontario health and long term care system. The [...]