Local News from Across the Rainy River District
Next-generation nuclear technology “has no part in fighting the climate emergency,” Green Party Leader Elizabeth May said Tuesday as a handful of MPs joined anti-nuclear activists to voice concern about the federal government’s intention to expand nuclear power. “It, in fact, takes valuable dollars away from things that we know […]
Mean Girls The Musical at Fort Frances High School–The Fort Frances High School production of Mean Girls The Musical runs this weekend. Tickets are $12 for adults and $10 for seniors and students available at Northwoods Gallery and Gifts. 7 p.m. closes Saturday evening. Library seeks red dresses–Fort Frances Public […]
Two children who died in a highway crash last week are being remembered as always smiling and spreading light and joy to everyone around them. A procession for Callie Joseph, 15, and her younger brother Evan Joseph, 11, took place Tuesday afternoon from Kenora to their home Iskatewizaagegan 39, also […]
The Fort Frances Mill Alumni 11th Annual Dinner is scheduled for May 31. Mill Alumni members do not want to lose sight of the role they played in the lives of people throughout the district, even though the mill is out of sight. Our Alumni Annual Banquet attendance has increased […]
The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the average home price will not revert to pre-pandemic levels in 2023 because the recent declines in prices are tapering off in many markets and are expected to bottom out this quarter before starting to rise again. In its outlook released Thursday, the […]
(COLLINS, ON) – Members of the Thunder Bay Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Crime Unit have arrested and charged one individual with fraud. On September 16, 2022, the OPP was notified of fraudulent activity takin place at a business in the Thunder Bay area. The investigation, with the […]
A township in southwestern Ontario has voted to prohibit Pride flags on municipal property, prompting expressions of dismay from some residents. In a Tuesday evening meeting, the council for the Township of Norwich passed a motion to fly only the flags of the federal, provincial and municipal governments on its […]
TORONTO – The Liquor Control Board of Ontario says it will phase out paper bags at its retail stores, a move the provincial agency says will save the equivalent of 188,000 trees each year. The Crown corporation says 15 years after it trashed single-use plastic bags, it will discontinue paper […]
OTTAWA – The Liberal government is showing no hints it will end the strike of its largest public sector union by legislating 155,000 federal civil servants back to work. The workers with the Public Service Alliance of Canada walked off the job nine days ago after contract negotiations with the […]
TORONTO – Leaders of northern Ontario First Nations descended upon Queen’s Park in Toronto on Wednesday to deliver a message to the province: they want to be equal partners on any kind of development in their territories. As part of making their point, the First Nations throughout Treaty 9 territory […]
HALIFAX – In the coming days, the federal and Nova Scotia governments will face the first deadline for action recommended by the inquiry that investigated the worst mass shooting in Canadian history. The Mass Casualty Commission, which tabled its final report last month, has called on the two levels of […]
