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New pancake restaurant coming to Thunder Bay
TBNewsWatch
6This is great news, because what this city needs is another franchise restaurant.
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Library eyeing Intercity Shopping Centre location for new branch, again
TBNewsWatch 41"You say tomato, I say tomato, let's call the whole thing off"
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Ryden's denies reports of vandalism targeting Canadians in northern Minnesota
TBNewsWatch 34While I understand your sentiment, I think it's fair to point out that "interrogation by armed border guards with powers to search, seize, and jail" has always been the case...on both sides of the border (notwithstanding that CBSA guards have only been armed in recent years).
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‘Missed opportunity’: Indigenous org. leaving library on bad terms
TBNewsWatch 34Libraries are for books.
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Kam River rescinded as a temporary village site
TBNewsWatch 34Unreal. What do we pay these people for?
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Section of Red River Road to close for up to eight weeks
TBNewsWatch 22So, they're going to close Cumberland to build a roundabout, and Red River to make it pretty. Any other navigational hassle downtown we should know about? It would be great if the City would post a map of all the summer road construction so people and figure out how to get from one end of town to the other.
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City council gives homelessness action plan the green light
TBNewsWatch 10Your statement: 'It’s not up to the city to house people."Well, no, not strictly speaking. However, the Ontario Superior Court has stated that evicting homeless people from parks and other municipally-owned lands in cities lacking adequate shelter spaces is a violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. This is why we currently have a bunch of people tenting in our parks...the City cannot legally remove them. The answer, in this case, seems to be, to provide those "adequate shelter spaces"; by making such spaces available, the theory is that the City will then be legally enabled to evict campers from the parks.SO...what's the lesser evil to Thunder Bay taxpayers? Paying for shelter spaces or watching encampments spring up all over the place. It seems we can't have our cake and eat it too.
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‘Tough times’: College to temporarily suspend 3 more programs
TBNewsWatch 5Just close it and turn the dorms into rent-controlled housing.
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After decades of debate, council greenlights. designated truck route
TBNewsWatch 19Great! They made a decision!...until they decide to rescind the decision at some future meeting.
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Vandals attack new playground at Vickers Park
TBNewsWatch 16Thunder Bay...the City That's Not Allowed to Have Anything Nice.
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City looking at ways to revitalize Charry Corner on Simpson Street
TBNewsWatch 18Yay! A new study!
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Over 100 jaywalkers a day: pedestrian crossing signals going up mid-block on Red River
TBNewsWatch 19They've put these up in a couple locations now. Why use a traffic light instead of the pedestrian crossover signals that they've been installing around town for the past several years?
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Synchronized traffic signals to launch this summer
TBNewsWatch 18Thunder Bay leaps into the 1990s!
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Stolen Westfort Village fire pit recovered
TBNewsWatch 18And the Thunder Bay Police Service charged the individual with theft?
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City identifies 59 vacant buildings 'in various stages of dilapidation'
TBNewsWatch 18I'm surprised it's only 59...
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Wetland project nears completion at Boulevard Lake
TBNewsWatch 4Looks more like a ditch than a wetland...
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City offers 'prime' land for sale to developers
TBNewsWatch 10Better than selling off parks I guess...
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Drone show a huge hit with Marina Park crowd
TBNewsWatch 8I (and about 300 other people) was disappointed to discover that, unlike fireworks, you couldn't watch the drone show from Hillcrest Park! I'll know better for next time!
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Council selects north-side shelter village site
TBNewsWatch 8Cut down some more trees instead of using a brownfield site. Excellent.
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600-unit housing proposal draws strong neighbourhood oposition
TBNewsWatch 9Certainly there is a valid argument in the idea of 'build it and they will come', but adding yet another Circle K, yet another Tim's, yet another weed shop, another bus route, another EMS base, another traffic light, another school...all of these things take up what little infill space that is currently available and change the neighbourhood People who live in the neighbourhood will probably argue against that. People who live somewhere else in the city will probably say "Great! (but I'm glad it's not in my back yard)"
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