The yellow school buses were circling the block yesterday picking up students with new backpacks and brightly-coloured runners. Lineups of cars at Robert Moore and other schools had parents dropping off their children for the first day of school. Alas, we are heading into the last long weekend of summer. […]
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Don Rusnak
Member of Parliament Thunder Bay-Rainy River
Member of Parliament Thunder Bay-Rainy River
Earlier this month, I was pleased to host the Hon. Carolyn Bennett, minister of Indigenous and Northern Affairs, in the Fort Frances region. Minister Bennett visited Couchiching First Nation and met with indigenous leadership from across the riding. We also toured the Nanicost building and stopped by the children’s pow-wow […]
The 12th-annual International Falls Bass Championship took place over the weekend on Rainy Lake and the Rainy River—and another successful event is in the books. A full field of 60 teams showed up again this year to participate in the event, and several tournament records were set by eventual winners […]
You know those ideas that seem like really good ones at first blush, when excitement is high and enthusiasm keen! But halfway across swimming Lake Ontario, you start to doubt your common sense and think you may have made the wrong decision—considering you only know how to dog paddle and […]
Well, another busy weekend is in the books. Our first cattle sale of the fall season was held Saturday at the Stratton sales barn, during which 631 head sold for $830,211.03. Despite cattle prices lower than last year, we still saw some decent prices. In fact, the auctioneer made a […]
Well, another Emo Fair is behind us. We certainly ended up with a pretty decent weekend. The rain could have passed us by Saturday night but like many said, “It wouldn’t be an Emo Fair without rain!” I was happy that it didn’t rain enough to cancel the stock car […]
Schools will be starting soon. Some parents will experience worry as their first youngster walks out the front door and boards a waiting school bus. Almost a decade later, that group will move on to high school and parents suddenly will realize that their children are growing and quickly will […]
I haven’t watched much of the 2016 Summer Olympics on television even though I thoroughly enjoy sport; admire the dedication and commitment these athletes demonstrate to get to play on the world stage. If I had to pick a favourite sport, that would be a tough decision, but the 100-metre […]
When it became a reality a few years ago that I would get the chance to fish the Walmart FLW Tour bass tournament circuit, it really was a dream come true for me. Competing on a big stage against the best bass anglers in the world was something I had […]
It’s a farmer’s nightmare: finding a case of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in their herd. Beef farmers today still recall how long it took for the sector to recover when BSE hit in 2003—and how difficult it was to make decisions during the evolving and complex […]
Large golden round bales dot the fields along the highway. Today, some are lined in rows along fence lines waiting to be moved to feeding areas later this year. The tops of barley quickly are turning brown and will be harvested soon. The oats are turning from green to gold […]
Don Rusnak
Member of Parliament
Thunder Bay-Rainy River
Member of Parliament
Thunder Bay-Rainy River
We kicked off this summer in Fort Frances with some very exciting announcements about FedNor funding for the region. FedNor is a funding program from the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Economic Development whose purpose is to promote economic development and job creation in Northern Ontario. This year, Fort Frances […]
