I chuckled to myself as I looked at the pictures on my son’s Facebook page from a year ago. He had taken pictures of the dump of snow in our drive way during Christmas break 2010. He stands over six feet and the snow bank was above his head.
I contrast that with this year, where there is hardly any snow on the ground and south facing roofs are free of snow. We are having perhaps the mildest winter to date on record and our community has broken several warm records.

With Queen’s Park in its winter break, normally this time of year is quiet on the provincial front. That is not the case this year, as the media is abuzz with the highly anticipated report on the province’s finances from economist Don Drummond.

Here we go again. Toronto does not understand the logistics of where we are and is refusing to do the sensible thing.

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Ont. Govt.

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O.P.P.

Peacefully, in his sleep on Tuesday, December 20th, 2011 at the age of 52, Brad went to spend the rest of his eternity with the Lord. Brad was born in Atikokan, Ont. on June 30th 1959.

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CIHI

Letter to the Editor:

By Melanie Mathieson
Gardening Guru

By Jack Elliott
Contributor

With the closing of 2011, it’s a good time to review a few memorable items.