I was in line at a small grocery store the other day and the woman in front of me was struggling to retrieve money from her purse. Her fingers weren’t co-operating and she appeared to be rushing, which intensified her struggle. The two check-out teenagers looked at me apologetically and […]
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Submitted by, the Stewardship, Youth Rangers
Week 4 of the Fort Frances Stewardship Youth Ranger-Ogimaa Binesiiyog Partnership Program has the rangers keeping busy around town, and then off to Caliper Lake Provincial Park for more clearing, cleaning, camping and canoeing. In town, the SYR Team Leads took the Rangers to the Fort Frances Lookout Tower at […]
There is an interesting court case involving 454 bottles of beer that could very much open up free trade across provincial boundaries. The Supreme Court of Canada will hear an appeal of the New Brunswick Provincial Court’s decision. Gerald Comeau had bought several cases of beer and some liquor in […]
Imagine the Edmonton Oilers getting to the Western Conference final while playing one forward short on the ice each and every game. Or how about the Kansas Jayhawks making it to the NCAA Final Four while not ever being allowed to use a point guard in the March Madness tournament? […]
The weather cooperated for a great long weekend. I was lucky enough to take Friday off so that made four days at home and since we had finished baling hay on Wednesday, I didn’t have to rush around for that. My only problem was I ended up with a nasty […]
August snuck out from behind the weeds in my garden and from my so-called lawn and pounced on me, when I least expected it. August caught me off-guard and threw me to the ground before I could fight back, and then knocked the last bit of oxygen from my lungs. […]
I was just as surprised as most people were in Fort Frances when the community learned that the trees on the 200 block of Scott Street were going to be removed. I sat on town council back in the early 1980s when the decision to plant trees along the street […]
Don Rusnak
Member of Parliament Thunder Bay-Rainy River
Member of Parliament Thunder Bay-Rainy River
Back in April, I had the honour of attending the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York City, alongside several of my colleagues. This was the 16th-annual conference at the UN dedicated exclusively to discussing the issues facing the world’s indigenous populations. The forum brought the world […]
I just had the great fortune of spending time with Aimee, daughter #1, and my wee grandson, Linden, who is three. The moments we spend with family are far too rare these days but when it happens, I ask the cells of my heart to take it all in; to […]
I hope everyone is enjoying the heat wave we’ve been experiencing this past week. It won’t last (it never does so I get frustrated when people complain about it). Meanwhile, what a crazy busy week it was last week. Our soil and crop tour on Thursday was very successful and […]
After a day or two of relaxing early last week following a week of fishing hard on Rainy Lake during the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship, it seemed like it would be just another stretch of normal summer days. I was enjoying the quiet time around home when I got […]
It was a busy weekend for bass anglers across Northwestern Ontario with the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship going on at Rainy Lake and the Bronzeback Classic taking place on Lake of the Woods in Kenora. I fished the Fort Frances event for the 18th time this year and we […]
