Memories come flooding back every year when we put up our Christmas tree. We do not have a themed tree. But our eclectic tree keeps gathering memories that are stored in the ornaments that adorn it. There is a Hallmark ornament that announces 1977 “Our First Christmas together” and there […]
Jim Cumming – From the Publisher Emeritus’ Pen
Jim is the former publisher of the Fort Frances Times Ltd. He writes a weekly column and can be contacted at jcumming@fortfrances.com
Christmas is often considered baking season. Both of my sons and their wives have put forth their sweet tooth desires. Over the years I had continued the family tradition of making Christmas Cakes and Christmas Plum Puddings. As a person with diabetes both of those two Christmas items must be […]
I never used to look at the obituaries in the newspaper. I was too young to worry about seeing notices of friends, and acquaintances passing. That changed as I grew older. Today it remains the first page that I turn to. I have learned a great deal in reading those […]
I have been revelling in the weather we have experienced these past 10 days. This fall is being bountiful with warm above normal temperatures. As I travelled to Rainy River last Wednesday, I could not but help notice how many fields have already been prepared for next year’s crops. As […]
Normally a new council is elected and then proceeds to build a strategic plan for the next four years of their mandate. Much has changed over the past three years and a new council will be elected in the fall of 2022. What are the issues that councils across the […]
I was part of the campaign that saw the beginning of the “Care Close to Home” campaign that brought a modernization to the Rainy River Hospital and LaVerendrye Hospital. It resulted in a major donation from First Nations to establish a Dialysis Unit in Fort Frances. The team that walked […]
According to 2018 data by the Ontario Energy Board (OEB), the main electricity sources in Ontario are nuclear energy and water power Nuclear energy: 58.3% Waterpower: 23.9% Wind: 8% Natural gas: 6.2% Solar: 2.3% Bioenergy: 0.5% Other: 0.8% In July of this year the government of Canada committed itself to the largest greenhouse […]
In the past two weeks my wife and I have crossed back and forth in Ontario. One of the items everyone pays attention to on road trips is the price of fuel. When we started in the Fort, regular gas was just over $1.40 per litre. We were surprised as […]
Marnie and I have been travelling to visit relatives that we have not seen in the past three years. We would have travelled last year to visit her mother and brother and their children but Covid made travel feel unsafe. We enjoy travelling in late September and early October because […]
In my column last week, I wrote of tough love and the shunning of non vaccinated people. On Sunday, Jason Kenney in a radio broadcast in Calgary said a rather profound statement. Kenney rejected the idea of “Hard Lockdowns” in Alberta as a way of controlling the spread of Covid, […]
There is bad news and good news this week. First the bad news. Most provincial governments bet that the pandemic was over and have now discovered that the Delta variant was stronger than anyone believed and had rebuilt itself to be more contagious. The number of new Covid cases is […]
Who would know that the federal election is only a short five days away? Maybe the Liberal planning machine that called the election, understood that Canadians would hesitate to become involved. Maybe all the federal parties were complicit in getting the election underway. This riding has been held by three […]
