Reinventing Thunder Bay TEDx February 16, 2012

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THUNDER BAY – On Thursday, February 16, 2012 over a dozen inspiring speakers came together at Lakehead University for the first TEDx Thunder Bay to share in “Ideas Worth Spreading”. This has been the theme of TEDx (which stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design) since its inception in 1984. Its scope is now much broader and it includes…

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Recently, a middle-aged man in a power wheelchair was hit by a car – PUSH Northwest

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THUNDER BAY – Editorial – Recently, a middle-aged man in a power wheelchair was hit by a car. He was going by a driveway and he thought that the driver of a car saw him, but he did not. The sidewalk was not plowed and the man…

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Overwhelmed? Stop Chasing Bright Shiny Objects!

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Editorial – Many of us in the ad and media world have difficulty solving our fundamental problems because we get way too hung up chasing the latest bright shiny objects. As our industry becomes increasingly disrupted by digital technology and fundamental changes in consumer behavior, our lives get harder and much more complex.

Whose job today is simpler than it…

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Bruce Hyer and John Rafferty have demonstrated honour and honesty

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THUNDER BAY – Editorial – Many Canadians complain that politicians just don’t listen, or that they vote the party line and not the riding line. Bruce Hyer and John Rafferty have demonstrated, by voting to end the long-gun registry, that there is still some honour and honestly in Canadian politics. Both MPs have been sanctioned by interim NDP…

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Dissecting Drummond – Livio Di Matteo

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THUNDER BAY – Editorial – Well, the Drummond Report (a.k.a. The Commission on the Reform of Ontario’s Public Services) is finally out and it is indeed a weighty tome. It is encyclopedic in its scope and details hundreds of recommendations. Despite it being described as gloomy, I thought that it was actually a relatively optimistic…

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Alan Rock and the Liberals once thought the gun registry was a good idea too

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THUNDER BAY – Editorial – As the federal Conservatives are set to dismantle the long-gun registry, it certainly appears that the same mindset that created that boon-doggle is alive and well in Ottawa. Public Safety Minister Vic Toews states, on the Conservatives new effort to monitor the Internet that anyone who is opposed to the measure, “can either stand…

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Thirty Billion Dollars for Fighter Jets a Painless Cut

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THUNDER BAY – Governing is all about making choices. One of the difficult choices ahead for the federal Conservatives will be in making cuts to spending that will gain support across Canada. one area there could be fairly painless cuts would be for the feds to slice billions off their spending by cutting back on the purchase of new…

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Attawapiskat isn’t North Vancouver Island

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THUNDER BAY – Editorial – For several weeks, Minister of Aboriginal Affairs John Duncan has touted the decision by his department’s appointed manager in Attawapiskat on the purchase of modular homes for the community as aiding the move to ease the housing crisis in Attawapiskat. It has not mattered that Attawapiskat Chief and Council had already come…

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Climate change and our gardens

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THUNDER BAY – As passionate gardeners, we keep wondering how the changing climate is affecting our gardens. (We last wrote about climate change in this space during the heat of summer in 2010.) We therefore noticed when the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) updated its plant hardiness zone map on January 25, 2012. Throughout much of the U.S.,…

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HD Livestream+ will take another massive leap forward

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THUNDER BAY – Once again it is time to share a huge Thank You, Meegwetch, Merci, Kiitos, Grazie, and Tika hoki with all of our readers. Brett, our Chief Technology Officer shares that NetNewsledger is outperforming the targets that we set. Not by a little, but by a tonne.

Over January visitor traffic on NNL jumped by fifty-one…

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