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 […]
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NEW YORK (AP) – Shirley Jackson had a gift for evoking the depths of anxiety in the space it might take to summarize a baseball game. Two very brief and previously unreleased stories, “Charlie Roberts” and “Only Stand and Wait,” were published this week in the summer issue of The […]
VANCOUVER – Refusing to play a friendly game against Panama on Sunday was a decision the Canadian men’s soccer team didn’t take lightly, says Atiba Hutchinson. Locked in a prolonged contract dispute with Canada Soccer, the sport’s national governing body, the players felt witholding their services was a must, the […]
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 […]
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 […]
