Tournament fishing is an emotional activity in that the highs can be so high and the lows can be so low. Before I go any further, I know, it’s only fishing, there are certainly more important issues in life but hear me out. After winning the last event a couple […]
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It is with great sadness that the family of William “Willie” Wilson announces his passing on Tuesday March 9, 2021 at the LaVerendrye General Hospital in Fort Frances, ON. Willie was born on February 27, 1941 in Manitou Rapids to Leonard and Agnes Wilson. He grew up in Manitou Rapids. […]
It is with deep sadness that we announce the sudden passing of RONALD WAYNE BRIDGEMAN of Fort Frances, Ontario on Thursday March 18th, 2021. Ron was born on May 5th, 1950, in Hamiota, Manitoba to Tom and Jean Bridgeman. He was raised on a farm in Oak River, Manitoba where […]
Kenora-Rainy River MPP Greg Rickford, left, Fort Frances councillors Mike Behan, Rick Wiedenhoeft, mayor June Caul, Heather Krawchuk, constituency assistant to Marcus Powlowski, councillors Andrew Hallikas, Wendy Brunetta and John McTaggart stand in front of the Memorial Sports Centre to celebrate a multi-million dollar funding announcement Tuesday morning to renovate […]
Press release
(FORT FRANCES, ON) – The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) has now made an arrest in connection with a serious assault that occurred March 20, 2021 in Fort Frances. A 30-year-old man from Big Grassy First Nation has been charged with Aggravated Assault and Assault with a Weapon. The accused attended […]
TORONTO – Ontario pledged to further expand its COVID-19 vaccine rollout Monday, but questions remained about the dwindling supply of doses and the government’s ability to deliver on its promised timelines. Premier Doug Ford said Ontario was expecting to receive about 300,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine this week, but […]
By Michael Tutton
THE CANADIAN PRESS
THE CANADIAN PRESS
HALIFAX – A report by advocates for Canadian inmates is criticizing the rising rates of incarceration in at least two provincial jail systems amid the continuing pandemic. About a year after the first COVID-19 cases emerged in Ontario jails, the update by the Prison Pandemic Partnership says the risk to […]
BOULDER, Colo. – A shooting at a crowded Colorado supermarket that killed 10 people, including the first police officer to arrive, sent terrorized shoppers and workers scrambling for safety and stunned a state and a nation that has grieved several mass killings. A lone suspect was in custody, authorities said. […]
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DHAKA, Bangladesh – A special court in Bangladesh’s capital on Tuesday sentenced 14 members of a banned radical Islamist group to death in a case over a conspiracy to assassinate Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina two decades ago. Prosecution lawyer Abu Abdullah Bhuiyan said prosecutors were happy with the verdict, but […]
By Salmaan Farooqui
THE CANADIAN PRESS
THE CANADIAN PRESS
One year to get a 12-speed chain. Five hundred days for a new saddle. And up to a two year wait until certain bike models come back in stock. These are the wait times that retailers like Sweet Pete’s Bike Shop in Toronto say customers can expect to wait if […]
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Parliament’s budget watchdog says a federal infrastructure financing agency has yet to meet a key aspect of its mandate: pulling in private dollars for major projects. The Trudeau Liberals created the infrastructure agency in 2017 to address that gap by using $35 billion in federal financing to pull in two […]
