As another horse racing season wound down this month with the Breeders Cup, and as the sport of kings inches closer to extinction, here’s the question: Can this sport be sustained by people who say “there’s just something about horse racing.” This is a sport — of royalty or not […]
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By Robert Animikii Horton
Northern Reflections
Northern Reflections
We are born into a world of words. Like countless others, words define my life — first as an avid reader of stacks of Archie comic books, later as an educator, later as an author. It’s easy to think of words as tools, mere instruments of communication, or sonic stepping-stones […]
Remembrance Day and Veterans Week arrive next week. It was first celebrated on November 3, 1919, and was then known as Armistice Day. For over a decade it was celebrated on the first Monday preceding November 11. The date was set to mark the end of the first world war. […]
DID YOU KNOW? It’s Carbon Monoxide (CO) Awareness Week. This important public safety initiative is aimed at educating people about the dangers of carbon monoxide—often called the silent killer—and how to stay safe. CHANGE YOUR CLOCKS—CHANGE YOUR BATTERIES Did you remember to change all your clocks this past weekend? Let […]
It is great that November has arrived and we can still see grass and bare ground. I know that will change soon enough but I am enjoying it while it lasts. The rain last week really just made things slimy and our roads bumpy. Back my way the graders were […]
The Emo Legion Branch #99 will hold Cenotaph services and events as follows: There will be a free will luncheon at the Emo Legion at 12:00 p.m. A Remembrance Day dinner will be served at the Emo Legion beginning at 5:00 p.m. The cost is $20.00 and children 10 and […]
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Kiwanis Club member Robin Wright, left, made a special appearance as Jessica Shute of Turtle Island Café and Barbershop pulled the winning ticket for the Kiwanis Club’s Trip of the Month draw on Monday, November 3, 2025. Ginny Heilman was the winner of an Eastern Caribbean Cruise trip, valued at […]
From the Fort Frances Times
Thursday, May 10, 1945
Thursday, May 10, 1945
In Europe the war is over. In Fort Frances the celebrating is over and life has returned more or less to normal. Because of the news of the war’s end in Europe being released to an expectant world by a news service before it was officially proclaimed by the heads […]
We had a drought here in the eastern part of our fair country this past summer and fall, but fair to say the entire country has experienced many challenges due to climate change. Nova Scotia and New Brunswick have been hit the hardest, local reports say. I’m not convinced we […]
EVENTS CALENDAR Hunter’s Dinner fundraiser for the West Rainy River District Lions Club. Featuring wild meat and fish. Nov. 8 doors at 4:30, dinner at 6 p.m. tickets $50, available online at westlions.ca or from Telford Advent, 807-271-2007, Kent Ogden at Cloverleaf Grocery Store or any West Rainy River District […]
By Matt Prokopchuk
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
TBnewswatch.com
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
TBnewswatch.com
KENORA — A new study has found Indigenous people in Thunder Bay and Kenora report higher rates of discrimination in the health care system than those in southern Ontario. The data was compiled by Octavia Wong, a Toronto-based researcher. It noted that, among Indigenous respondents, 39 per cent and 37 […]
By Jon Thompson
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Riccochet
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Riccochet
The federal government has not responded to requests for comment since Ontario Premier Doug Ford called for Canada to abandon its environmental assessment in the proposed Ring of Fire mining development. At an infrastructure funding announcement for Webequie First Nation last week, Ontario Premier Doug Ford publicly asked Prime Minister Mark […]
