What’s Missing? Just you! With a maximum of only 6000 tickets to be sold you couldbe the one sitting at the controls of this beautiful Princecraft Vectra 21 Pontoon Boat cruising our waterways next summer… but you’ve got to have a ticket to win. Just $20.00. Get yours before it’s […]
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The Senior Games organizers are looking to expand into winter sports – but they’ll need a little help to pull it off. The region is a long-time participant in the Senior Games during the summer, but organizers feel that winter is a great time to enjoy activity, too. “There are […]
Tonight will see a few clouds and a low of 5 C (41 F). Tomorrow will bring partly cloudy skies with a chance of showers before becoming cloudy and continuing to see a chance of showers overnight with a high of 19 (66) and a low of 12 (54). Friday […]
I am sometimes confounded by the obvious differences in people’s behaviour. I don’t expect us to all react the same in certain situations or even behave in a manner that is reflective of our similarities, but … I am a people watcher and what better time to watch people than […]
Senior Centre BINGO – resumes Friday Sept. 15 from 1:30-3:30 p.m. This will be a 9-week session ending Nov. 10. 2023 Terry Fox Run – The Annual Terry Fox Run will take place on This Sunday! Sept. 17 from 1-4 p.m. At the Sorting Gap Marina. Register at terryfox.org and […]
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A local contractor has been selected to restore recycling infrastructure for the residents of Fort Frances. Richard Wieringa’s $210,353.98 plus $10,000 contingency bid to re-build the recycling centre and $92,654.84 plus contingency to install the base for a new landfill scale, came in at less than half of a larger […]
By Dave Baxter
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Winnipeg Sun
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Winnipeg Sun
The Chief of one of Manitoba’s largest First Nations says health care services are in a dire and deteriorating state in his community, and if things don’t improve, he believes it will continue to lead to more harm and more “unnecessary deaths.” “We are sick and tired of bringing our […]
By Natasha Bulowski
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Canada's National Observer
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Canada's National Observer
Ontario’s auto sector has a chance to cash in on North America’s growing market for electric buses and electrifying the province’s school buses is a strong place to start, say Pembina Institute analysts. The benefits of swapping out fossil fuel-fuelled school buses for electric buses are many. It reduces the […]
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Local survivors welcome to submit their loved one’s name for future ceremonies MADD Canada’s National President Jaymie-Lyne Hancock has been part of several memorial monument ceremonies to honour impaired driving victims in other provinces, but today’s unveiling of the new Ontario Memorial Monument will be especially personal and emotional for […]
By Carl Clutchey
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The Chronicle-Journal
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The Chronicle-Journal
Shuniah, Ont. — An extensive four-laning of the Trans-Canada Highway east of Thunder Bay is more than half-way done following the latest added section that was unveiled last week, the Ministry of Transportation says. With the additional nine-kilometre section of the Highway 11-17 route officially put in service last week near Dorion, “58.3 kms […]
