Just like Ontario electrical users, Fort Frances residents have shown they can reduce the amount of water they use in their households. Yes, town residents actually used less processed water in 2016 than they did in the previous year. In fact, Fort Frances residents use less water than the average […]
Editorials
It’s that time of year again when the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce comes with hat in hand before town council to request funding to help with tourism-related expenses—just as it’s done for the past 20 years or more. Council has acquiesced, though at times seeming to do so grudgingly. […]
It’s here! It’s here! It’s here! Yes, Canada’s sesquicentennial year is now upon us—with the celebrations already having started on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on New Year’s Eve leading up to their culmination on July 1. Are you excited yet? There hasn’t been a whole lot of buzz around Canada’s […]
Life has its ups and downs; triumphs and tragedies; successes and challenges. Looking back over the past 12 months, though, it’s clear 2016 had plenty of positive vibes for Fort Frances and Rainy River District. Topping the list, of course, is New Gold’s continued progress on its Rainy River Project […]
Sometimes it’s the smallest of gestures that make the biggest impact. Maria Gilbert, a Grade 11 student at Fort Frances High School, was selected as the local recipient of RBC’s “Canada 150” initiative—a promotion in celebration of Canada’s 150th anniversary in 2017 in which one youth from communities across the […]
Stratton residents, particularly those involved in the curling scene there, undoubtedly are very proud after two of their own—siblings Trevor Bonot and Jackie McCormick—helped Northern Ontario capture the 2017 Canadian mixed curling championship on Saturday in Yarmouth, N.S. Joined by Megan and Kory Carr of Thunder Bay at lead and […]
We all know young people who are making a difference in our community or in the lives of others. Perhaps they’re helping an elderly neighbour with yard work or shovelling snow. Or maybe volunteering their time and effort for a worthy cause. Whatever the reason, if you know someone who […]
It’s a blessing that most Canadians alive today have not had to endure the horrors of war. But with each year putting the terrible human cost and suffering of the First and Second World Wars further into the past, and fewer and fewer veterans still here to recount their stories, […]
Eight years ago, Americans made history by electing the country’s first black president in Barack Obama. And they may be on the verge of doing so again this coming Tuesday if they choose to elect Hillary Clinton as the first woman to occupy the Oval Office. The world has seen […]
The province last week introduced the proposed Election Statute Law Amendment Act which would, among other things, possibly create two new seats for Northern Ontario at Queen’s Park (from the current 11 to 13). While the increase won’t make a huge difference in the 107-seat legislature, any move to expand […]
Although there’s hope the trend has started to reverse, a declining population here in Fort Frances—and right across Rainy River District—has had widespread implications. Certainly one impact of having fewer people around is a drop in volunteers. For instance, many service clubs that used to flourish here have folded, with […]
With the pulp and paper mill in Fort Frances still shuttered, resulting in the loss of the district’s largest employer, one would think unemployment to be our community’s biggest problem. Yet that doesn’t appear to be the case these days. Quite the opposite, in fact. A recent survey conducted by […]
