EVENTS CALENDAR December’s 55+ movie matinee at the Fort Frances Public Library. Dec. 19 a 1 p.m. No Admission, free popcorn. Featuring “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever.” (2024). “Nobody is ready for the mayhem and surprises that ensue when six of the worst youngsters disrupt the town’s annual Christmas performance.” […]
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By Times Staff
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is reminding travellers to plan ahead when travelling to Canada this holiday season. Between January 1 and October 31, 2025, the CBSA says they welcomed more than 70 million travellers while also intercepting over 30,790 kg of illegal drugs and 13,500 weapons and firearms. […]
By Mike Stimpson,
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Thunder Bay Source
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Thunder Bay Source
THUNDER BAY — Ontario’s legislative assembly is taking a 14-week break after having already taken a 19-week summer break and sitting only 51 days this year. And the MPP for Thunder Bay-Superior North doesn’t like it one bit. “It’s appalling, really,” Lise Vaugeois, a New Democrat, said of the Progressive […]
By Matt Prokopchuk
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
TBnewswatch.com
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
TBnewswatch.com
THUNDER BAY — A new commercially-available mobile service that uses satellites to connect can help people stay safer in remote areas. That’s according to Kurtis Jung, a Thunder Bay man who spends a lot of time in the outdoors as a hunter and angler and in his job as a […]
By Sandi Krasowski
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The Chronicle-Journal
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The Chronicle-Journal
The Federal Economic Development Agency for Northern Ontario (FedNor) will spend $15.8 million in Northern Ontario over three years to strengthen defence supply chains and increase their industrial and innovation capacity. The funding is part of the federal government’s national $357.7-million Regional Defence Investment Initiative that extends from Canada’s $6.6 […]
By Steven Sukkau
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Winnipeg Sun
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Winnipeg Sun
Canadians continue to face lengthy delays for medically necessary health care, with patients waiting more than six months on average from a family doctor referral to treatment, according to a new national study, a reality experts say has become the defining feature of the country’s health-care system. The Fraser Institute’s Waiting […]
By Chris Fell,
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
CollingwoodToday.ca
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
CollingwoodToday.ca
The Ford government’s plan to merge Ontario’s conservation authorities into much larger entities is not sitting well with two members of The Blue Mountains council. Collingwood council isn’t on board either. If the change were approved, both Collingwood and the Town of the Blue Mountains, alongside 78+ other municipalities, would […]
By Shari Narine
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Windspeaker.com
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Windspeaker.com
After a decade-and-a-half of recording music and writing songs, his new book The Work of Our Hands: A Cree Meditation on the Real World is the first time Juno-nominated Cree singer Adrian Sutherland has put pen to paper in this manner. And, he admits, it was more difficult than he […]
As I read and reread last week’s Times article on the sale of Sunny Cove, memories come flooding back. Thoughts of weddings, anniversary parties, famile reunions, school year ends, safe grad, church services, teaching canoeing skills and studying wildlife. They are all pleasant reruns of the past. My thoughts themn […]
By Allan Bradbury
Staff Writer
abradbury@fortfrances.com
Staff Writer
abradbury@fortfrances.com
On Friday, staff at the Fort Frances Salvation Army took members of the media and invited guests behind the scenes to see how the Stuff A Cruiser event benefits local food banks. Salvation Army Fort Frances Corps officer Arthur Heathcoate said that the event helps local food banks get through […]
The Redrum MC Treaty 3 Chapter made a donation of $4,000 to the Emo Food Bank on Sunday, December 14. Redrum MC Treaty 3 recently held a raffle with the proceeds being donated to the Emo Food Bank. Charlene graciously thanked the three members that handed her the donation, plus […]
