Editorials

Given the myriad of serious issues town council is grappling with, what was the hot-button topic of the past week? Whether or not the town should allow wedding receptions at Sunny Cove Camp.

Changing the lyrics to “O Canada,” the trial balloon floated by the Harper government in last Wednesday’s throne speech, went over like a lead balloon—forcing the Tories to backtrack within 48 hours.

Margaret Schonewille, the face and driving force behind the Alzheimer Society of Kenora/Rainy River Districts for so many years, has left her position as executive director to become director of development at Providence College and Seminary in Steinbach, Man.
Their gain is certainly our loss.

There was something about “Own The Podium” that didn’t sit right even before the Olympic cauldron was lit nearly two weeks ago to open the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver.
The idea behind the program—to provide better funding for our elite athletes so they, in turn, had a chance to win more medals on the world stage—was not at fault. Rather, it was the silly choice for its name.

“It takes money to make money” is an old adage that applies to the trip a trio of local residents is taking to Birmingham, Ala. to promote Fort Frances and Rainy Lake at an outdoors expo being held in conjunction with the annual Bassmaster Classic fishing tournament this weekend.

The quality of health care is a critical issue to any community, whether in a major city like Toronto or small-town Fort Frances. As such, the public is right to demand to be fully informed of the situation at the Fort Frances Community Clinic and, more specifically, on the efforts to recruit more doctors here.

With voter turnout now teetering dangerously close to the 50 percent mark, and where majority governments can be elected with barely one-third support of those who bothered to cast a ballot, there’s no question our political system is not perfect.
But why this growing fascination with the American system as the miracle cure for our woes?

It’s a sad sign of the times if the best we can come up with for “Family Day” is two hours of free skating and swimming at the Memorial Sports Centre.

The world’s response to help the victims of last Tuesday’s catastrophic earthquake in Haiti has been swift and overwhelming. The problem hasn’t been the volume of relief supplies pouring in from countries, including Canada, but rather how to get it into the hands of the hundreds of thousands left injured, hungry, thirsty, and homeless by the disaster in a safe and orderly manner.

We’ve all seen the commercials: the couple unplugging the alarm clock, driving in a snazzy convertible, and basking on a beach.