North Bay

How a North Bay pig is standing up for backyard chickens

Brent Johnson needed a symbol of his disgust with his city’s anti-livestock bylaw. In Pork Chop, he found one.

What students are talking about today (November 7th edition)

Trump is mad, pot is legal & U. Manitoba’s “racialized rep.”

The Northlander: another train reaches the end of the line

When the last train rolls out of a Canadian town it leaves an echo that never fades

Photo gallery: the flourishing business of polar bear pelts

Take a tour of Fur Harvesters Auction Inc. in North Bay, Ont.

We're shotting polar bears?!?

We’re shooting polar bears?!?

International fur buyers are snapping up pelts at record prices. Nicholas Kohler went inside the auction house.

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Small schools. Big advantages.

Canada’s northern universities have arrived

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The tally

With 51 precincts reporting specific estimates—restricting the count to media-reported figures and, where available, police counts—it’s possible to account for approximately 21,000 anti-prorogation protestors at yesterday’s rallies.

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Today in Parliament

Before Question Period each day, 15 minutes is set aside for MP’s to stand and deliver short statements on whatever subject they wish to speak to. Usually this involves expressions of concern for international events, commendation for local charities, or reference to legislative matters. It is, at least in theory, the House’s one forum through which individual members can speak of their own volition, irrespective of ongoing debate or strict party interest.

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Tuesday’s North Bay nugget was a fellow named Dion

Yet another Inkless videoblog, this time from a Tuesday-night rally in the riding of incumbent Liberal MP Tony Rota. Whatever Dion ate on the plane before this event, the Liberals will want to keep feeding it to him.