If your wallet feels a little bit lighter in the New Year, it’s not a figment of your imagination. Your wallet will have been picked by the Liberal government of Premier Kathleen Wynne. In her haste to make Ontario “green,” the only greening that’s taking place is all the extra […]
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
’Tis the Christmas season and the time to look to the New Year. I often have made fun of our politicians, who toil on our behalf, with their Christmas “wish” lists and their resolutions for the New Year. So, too, this year, though not so much with the Christmas wish […]
Christmas Day will arrive shortly. My friend, David Iwanyszyn, posted a photo on Facebook on Sunday night showing off the Christmas tree in his home loaded with gifts and wishing everyone a “Happy St. Nicholas Day”—a Ukrainian tradition. On the eve of Dec. 19, children receive gifts from St. Nicholas. […]
Driving through Fort Frances on Sunday evening, I was surprised by all the outdoor lights that are illuminating yards in our community. From large blow-up snowmen to white lit deer and moose and dancing lights across the front of homes, the darkness that falls shortly after four in the afternoon […]
The Ontario government must believe that we all have better bladders in winter than in the summer. I make this comment having travelled numerous times to Thunder Bay and noticed all the pull-off rest stops are now blocked and marked as closed. The gates are across the entrances and even […]
Everyone needs to get a ’flu shot. I know we can find many reasons to avoid the shot, such as “It takes too much time,” “I don’t like needles,” or “Often it really isn’t effective.” The excuses are easy to come by. However, let’s just debunk some of the excuses. […]
Way back in 1904, H.J. Pettypiece, MPP, addressed the Empire Club at a noon luncheon and his topic of conversation was the taxation of railways. He complained then that Canadian railways were not paying their fair share of taxes to villages, towns, and cities in Ontario. Some 112 years later, […]
In today’s paper, we are telling the story of two men who left the district to join the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Royal Canadian Navy. Both returned to Fort Frances, raised families, and seldom ever told the stories of their lives in the Second World War. Stan Ward […]
I searched my computer Monday morning with the term “Clinton” to discover how many items on my hard drive included that word. My computer had 290 e-mails, stories, etc. with the word Clinton included in the copy or title. After it was announced Friday about more than 600,000 e-mails being […]
My wife and I were in Washington, D.C. for the past several days. In the U.S. capital, you might expect the hotbed of politics to be alive with lawn signs and television commercials promoting presidential and congressional candidates. You would be wrong. On Monday afternoon, we visited the “Nuseum” that […]
Last week in Times, we ran a story about a labour shortage across Rainy River District. Then in Monday’s Daily Bulletin, we reprinted an article from 1936 about employment in the bush of the district. More than 800 men had appeared to work in the logging camps. Between 1936 and […]
Around coffee one morning at From the Grind Up, names began being tossed about as nominees for the Fort Frances Sports Hall of Fame. Larry and Jimmy Fontana threw out names that those under the age of 70 might have had only a fleeting memory of. I remembered stories told […]
