How does a nation become competitive in tomorrow’s world? What human resources will make it successful? Where should a country focus its resources to secure a leading role in the world of nations? What industries, what studies will its citizens need? How did Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis create Blackberry—a […]
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Early last week, while sitting in the forest with a pair of binoculars, I was reminded of a radio interview with “writer of the century” Jonathan Franzen, who is acclaimed as one of today’s best thinkers. In fact, his picture recently was on the cover of Time magazine above the […]
The past week in Ottawa was one of mixed results and emotions. First came a moment of progress and pride as my pension protection bill (C-501) had two hours of hearings before the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology. Unfortunately, a few hours later, disappointment sent in when the […]
Dan Falloon Fort Frances Lakers’ goalie Jameson Shortreed is keeping a positive face on his experience at the World Junior ‘A’ Challenge in Penticton, B.C. earlier this month. The 17-year-old Emo native saw only saw a little over 30 minutes of game action at the tournament, in which his Canada […]
Dan Falloon Raymond Roy’s rink is ready to go on the island this week. Roy and his crew of third Dave Broman, second Butch Wensley, and lead Patrick Briere are set to begin competition at the Dominion Curling Club Championship, which kicks off today in Charlottetown, P.E.I. The Fort Frances […]
Dan Falloon For the Fort Frances Lakers, a little bit of time off couldn’t have come at a better time. The local Junior ‘A’ squad had just wrapped up a run of four games in six nights, where they won the first three but then crashed and burned in a […]
Duane Hicks “Let us have the courage to dream.” That was the inspirational message of “Citizen of the Year” Joyce Cunningham, who was honoured Friday night at the town’s annual appreciation dinner at La Place Rendez-Vous. Cunningham was not be able to attend as she was in Sudbury for a […]
Duane Hicks Town salutes volunteers, employees The Town of Fort Frances will be looking for a new fire chief in 2011 as Gerry Armstrong is retiring from the Fort Frances Fire Department at the end of the year. Armstrong, who was among four retirees recognized at the town’s annual appreciation […]
Duane Hicks The Rainy River Future Development Corp. wants to gauge the business community’s response in 2011 to the notion of an integrated rewards card program that would help keep more spending local. RRFDC client services manager Geoff Gillon told town council Monday night they’re following up on the “Go […]
Staff In response to concerns from the local Police Services Board about motorists cutting in line to get across the U.S. border and similar issues, town council will lobby both the provincial and federal government for help. In a report from Operations and Facilities manager Doug Brown, he said the […]
Duane Hicks It’s clear district residents are getting into the idea of community “tag” with “acts of kindness.” As of yesterday, more than 100 “acts of kindness” have been donated, with more coming in, to be sold off at the “Acts of Kindness Benefit” coming up Friday, Dec. 3 at […]
Peggy Revell How each person can take steps to stop violence, bullying, and other destructive behaviour was the theme of the three-day “We are all Leaders” conference held in Fort Frances last week. “Our hope is that through this conference, we have helped people help themselves and to help others […]
