Local News from Across the Rainy River District
While much of the nation has been blanketed in smoke at some point during this wildfire season — which officials have said is easily the worst on record — the sight is eerily similar to that recognized over many of the province’s dense urban centres. But in places like Hamilton, […]
Strategic plan survey – A public engagement survey on the Town’s strategic plan is available until tomorrow. Access via the Town Facebook page. “Town of Fort Frances: Official.” August is Amnesty Month At the FFPLTC – Return any outstanding library items and have any late fees waived in honour of […]
A series of renders have been released by the BMI Group, showing a proposed Wellness Precinct that is being planned for a portion of the former Fort Frances Mill site. The Wellness precinct will occupy the part of the property closest to La Verendrye Hospital and St. Mary’s Roman Catholic […]
Gurdeep Pandher leads a Bhangra dancing workshop at Point Park in Fort Frances last Wednesday evening. Pandher stopped into Fort Frances on his cross-Canada tour teaching people the traditional dance of Punjab, India. Spreading joy and happiness has been Pandher’s goal since he started posting his dancing from his home […]
Northwestern Ontario crews are on the ground in British Columbia and the Northwest Territories trying to curtail the flames. The Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre called on our province to help the efforts to stop wildfires that have led to evacuation orders for 68 per cent of the population of […]
The Community Economic Development Commission is calling on Indigenous entrepreneurs in Thunder Bay and Northwestern Ontario who are looking to start, expand or buy an existing business, to apply for their Miinikaanan Badakidoon program. Kirsten Kabernick, program co-ordinator with the commission’s Thunder Bay and District Entrepreneur Centre, said participants are […]
A 4.3 ha – or 10 acre – bog has been a topic of discussion since it floated into Sunny Cove last summer. It had broken free from its original home during the lake’s historic flooding, and settled in, blocking boat access to the Fort Frances campsite’s shoreline. It was […]
This article is reprinted with the generous permission of Quetico Superior Wilderness News. To see the original story, visit https://queticosuperior.org/mineral-licks-may-be-to-blame-for-deer-infecting-moose-with-deadly-parasite/ A recent study conducted on the Grand Portage Indian Reservation has uncovered a new clue about problems facing Minnesota’s moose population. The number of moose in Minnesota began to fall […]
(KENORA, ON) – An individual from Kenora was charged with impaired operation after a motor vehicle collision involving two vehicles. On Tuesday August 22, 2023, just before 9:00 a.m., members of the Kenora Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Detachment, City of Kenora Fire and Emergency Services (CKFES), and Kenora Northwest Emergency […]
As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with his federal cabinet to find ways to make life more affordable for Canadian families, his government should immediately consider removing the GST on home heating. “Winter is coming and so is your heating bill. Like food and medication, heating a home in Canada […]
Following the release of Auditor General Bonnie Lysyk’s report exposing the broken process that resulted in the removal of 15 parcels of land from the Greenbelt, the Alliance for a Liveable Ontario (ALO), an advocacy super group made up of prominent organizations in the environment, housing and labour sector, is […]
