Letters to the Editor

It's a life-changing trauma that impacts your life in many ways

Over the past three decades, optometrists have seen only a 4 per cent fee increase - even though the profession has expanded to include far more medical diagnoses and treatments.  The cost of equipment is also significantly higher than other medical specialties. 

'Women are naturally much more empathetic, better investigators, and also less trusting of the obvious'

Soldiers we are, and we have but ourselves to uplift this day, to fight and die for country, family, and friends

During the war years, the enrollment at Scollard averaged about 400 Students. Over the six years of the war, 352 students enlisted,31 did not make it home

'I find it extremely troubling that the Chair of our Social Services Administration Board thought it was appropriate to approach a private company in order to fence off a group of marginalized people, rather than working with local service providers to find a compassionate solution to the complex issues facing many members of our community'

'The North Bay Police Service, through its crime data analysis work, can state that individuals struggling with homelessness are much more likely to be the victims of violent crime than they are to commit violent crimes'

The Treaty spells out the requirement for governments to share the ongoing profits generated from resource extraction with many First Nations communities in Northern Ontario

We cannot escape the fact that freedom does not really exist, and that some form of societal authority, some government controls us, and is shaping us daily

I was born a partial left-hand amputee and grew up in CHAMP which provided me with financial assistance for prosthetic devices and offered emotional support