TORONTO – The RBC Canadian Open has teed off for the 111th time. The national men’s golf championship was cancelled the past two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Rory McIlroy, who won the tournament at Hamilton Golf and Country Club in 2019, is back in the field. The native […]
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LONDON (AP) — An expert group drafted by the World Health Organization to help investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic says further research is needed to determine how COVID-19 first began, including a more detailed analysis of the possibility it was a laboratory accident. That stance marks a sharp […]
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A Request for Federal Assistance would release additional funding and assistance for community Marcus Powlowski, MP for Thunder Bay-Rainy River is encouraging the Province to submit a Request for Federal Assistance (RFA). RFAs allow the Federal Government to lend additional support to a Province facing an emergency beyond its capacity […]
Couchiching First Nation Chief Brian Perreault, Mitaanjigamiing First Nation Chief Janice Henderson, and Treaty #3 Ogichidaa Francis Kavanaugh hold up the Anishinaabe Nation Pride flag on Monday, June 6 at Seven Generations Education Institute. The flag raising that followed kicked off this month’s slate of Borderland Pride events. —Daniel Adam […]
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Reports of Esox’s death are greatly exaggerated. The Esox dam, located approximately 50 km northeast of Fort Frances, has been the subject of concern, speculation and rumour as water in the Rainy Lake system continues to rise to historic levels. Social media posts have speculated that the dam is on […]
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As a result of ongoing flooding at the waterfront in Fort Frances, the route for the 2022 Pride March, originally set to begin at the Sorting Gap Marina, has been changed in order to ensure participant safety and to comply with municipal emergency orders. The Pride March will now assemble […]
It is hard to feel whole these days, with more school shootings in the United States. It is impossible to fathom the level of grief and heartache, of loss and absolute despair those involved feel and those who have been witness. I wonder when enough will be enough, when enough […]
Letter to the editor, I am outraged at the seeming incompetence of the people who are responsible for the water levels on the Rainy Lake basin. It is my understanding that the International Falls dam has 15 waste gates but due to the narrow passage at Ranier, 13 waste gates […]
You don’t have to be old to be a volunteer. And I learned this week that even the youngest in our community are great volunteers and tireless workers. For five days I have been down at the Shevlin Woodyard joining MNR firefighters, Fort Frances firefighters, and other community volunteers filling, […]
Dear editor, I agree with Mr. Zeitlhofer in his Letter to the Editor last week, in which he stated that the members of the Legislative Assembly have let us down. The corporate level of the MNRF responsible for the implementation of the Crown Forest Sustainability Act have not been held […]
