There’s a push on to better develop sports tourism in Rainy River District—and for good reason. It provides a major financial shot-in-the-arm that cannot be ignored. The Dudley Hewitt Cup, which Fort Frances hosted last year, reportedly injected more than $200,000 into the local economy. Back in 2003, it was […]
Editorials
There’s been a lot of buzz on social media this past week over the actions of some U.S. states directed against same-sex couples and the LGBTQ community in general. The moves prompted plenty of backlash, including concert cancellations by big-name rockers like Bruce Springsteen and Bryan Adams in North Carolina […]
There aren’t many district events that can boast a 75-year plus history. The Rainy River District Festival of the Performing Arts is among those few—getting underway today for the 76th time and running through April 22, with the annual “Highlights” concert set for Tuesday, May 10 at 6:30 p.m. at […]
“The annual ‘Sunshine List’ landed not so much with a thud as a whimper,” Queen’s Park columnist Christina Blizzard wrote on Monday. There were few surprises. Pan Am executives earned huge salaries to make the Toronto Pan Am Games the most successful ever, but at the same time, the games […]
It is almost 50 years ago that Finance Minister Edgar Benson took the nation into high deficits in a time of no recession. On Tuesday, Prime Minister Trudeau, following his father’s example again, returned Canada to a large deficit. Yes, he campaigned on a stimulus deficit of $10 billion but […]
Ahhh, the vagaries of spring—one day you’re sun tanning and then shovelling out from a blizzard practically the next. One sign of spring most everyone looks forward to is the arrival of Daylight Savings Times—the second Sunday in March when the majority of us set our clocks ahead one hour […]
Despite all the fanfare surrounding Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s official visit to Washington, D.C. today and tomorrow, along with last week’s first ministers’ summit on climate change, many question the real value of such get-togethers. Certainly in terms of substance, they generally don’t produce much of anything concrete beyond the […]
Got Muskie fever yet? Well, you should given four Fort High squads are heading off to seek provincial glory next week. The Muskie boys’ hockey team—fresh off its ninth-straight NorWOSSA crown—is heading to the all-Ontarios in Ottawa for a whopping 36th time, although OFSAA success has been hard to come […]
It’s great to see that the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce’s business awards gala continues to thrive after 20 years. Not only was there a wide cross-section of nominations for the various categories again this year, but nearly 1,600 votes were cast to determine the winners—well above the 1,021 last […]
It seems to happen quite often here. A club or group announces an event—only to discover the date conflicts with something else already planned. On the bright side, a myriad of events is indicative of a vibrant community. The downside, of course, is that multiple events being held simultaneously can […]
Unbelievable! Hopefully people misread the question. Otherwise it’s hard to fathom how almost 80 percent of the 330-plus respondents to the Fort Frances Times’ web poll this past week don’t think “O Canada” should be gender-neutral. Really? This is our national anthem—one of the most iconic symbols of our collective […]
It’s still very early in the process but already there seems to be plenty of interest over how to develop the “market square” planned for where the Rainy Lake Hotel once stood. There were plenty of “likes” on Facebook over the weekend to the suggestion to build a replica fort […]
