Canadians living in towns and cities do not worry about sewer and water. It comes and goes neatly in the pipes that bring fresh safe drinking water to our homes from municipal systems and takes away our sewage in similar fashion to be processed at a sewage treatment facility. We […]
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
This weekend should have been the 125th anniversary of the Rainy River Valley Agricultural Society Fall Fair. That designation will hold off for one more year due to Covid. Similarly this should have been the 30th anniversary of the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship. It too was cancelled one year […]
Whether it is the Winter Olympic Games or the Summer Olympic Games, there is always someone or some country to cheer on. As I write this, at the halfway point of the 2024 games, Canada has a total of seventeen medals. And we have more Olympian’s reaching the semifinals in […]
I like to think that I have an attractive yard. In spring the flowering crab trees bloom with pink flowers followed quickly there after by the sweet-smelling purple lilacs. While they are blooming, so too are the Lilly of the valley with their own fragrance. Shortly after in mid to […]
Canada’s major papers, the Globe and Mail, The National Post and Post Media’s papers across Canada filled their front pages Monday with American politics. As national papers and regional provincial papers it was natural that the changes in US politics would be front and center. Both of our economies are […]
We were sitting in the office a few weeks back and were discussing the problem of doctor shortages in the Rainy River District. There were three new residents in the district having family doctors in Newfoundland and British Columbia. They all were taking prescribed medicine and were wondering about the […]
This is a column that was written by the President of the Canadian Newspaper Association about the importance of advertising by provincial governments. When I was president of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association, we lobbied all the provincial and territorial governments as well as the federal government to maintain their […]
Is there really a crisis? Should he be given the chance to finish the job? Who am I talking about. Does one failed mid term election mean the end of a leader’s career? Does one terrible debate mean the end of a run for office? If that were the case […]
Across the Rainy River district, plans are now well underway to create a huge celebration of Canada Day. Since 1867 Canadians have rallied around July 1 first as Dominion Day and now as Canada Day. It was not until 1982 that the Day was renamed to Canada Day when the […]
The council of Fort Frances earlier this year spoke of the high cost of replacing the community’s infrastructure in Fort Frances. The original sewer in front of the newspaper office was made of clay. Men digging with shovels originally dug a trench about ninety centimeters wide down to a depth […]
I was struck by two news items on Thursday. The first was the 80th anniversary of D-Day when 14,000 Canadian troops stormed Juno Beach breaking the long siege of Nazi Germany over Europe. Three hundred-fifty-nine soldiers died on that day defending Canada. They had all sworn allegiance to protecting Canada. […]
We live on the border. Our two communities, International Falls and Fort Frances, are joined at the hip. We do not have a movie theatre. The Falls does. We have a curling rink. The Falls does not. When our pool was shut down for repairs, the Cyclone Swimming Team travelled […]
