Well, that didn’t take long. On the first day back at Queen’s Park, barely six weeks after the Oct. 6 provincial election, the opposition Progressive Conservatives already have raised the spectre of bringing down the minority Liberal government by vowing to defeat the throne speech just minutes after it was […]
Editorials
The prospect of a gold mine operation in Richardson Township, north of Barwick, remains bright after Rainy River Resources announced positive results from its latest Preliminary Economic Assessment of the gold resource at the site. Coming on the heels of news earlier this month that Coventry Resources is moving ahead […]
Local MP John Rafferty opened a can of worms last week when he chose the majority of his constituents over party lines by voting in favour of the Tories’ bill to abolish the long gun registry—a sore point here in Northwestern Ontario since it was established back in the 1990s. […]
Members of the local BIA, Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce, and town administration met for the first time on Friday to discuss the future of the Rainy Lake Hotel, and agreed to meet again by month’s end. Yay! Friday’s meeting was billed as a “positive first step,” but one is […]
There’s something seriously wrong with society when people have nothing better to do with $50,000 than bet it on the outcome of the Super Bowl coin flip while so many others go hungry day in and day out. It’s that type of obscene wealth which is fuelling the “Occupy” movement, […]
Remember when Rainy River was its own cosy little riding at Queen’s Park? Times, of course, certainly have changed. First it was the former government of Mike Harris, which, in 1999 as an apparent cost-saving measure, decided to mirror provincial ridings with their federal counterparts, thus creating Kenora-Rainy River. It […]
If Sarah Campbell was the big winner here in last Thursday’s provincial election, keeping Kenora-Rainy River NDP orange, the biggest loser clearly was democracy. Voter turnout, as feared, hit an historic low as fewer than half of those eligible to cast ballots bothered to do so—making a mockery of our […]
The local Ontario election campaign certainly didn’t generate much heat, at least in this part of the riding, where the issue of vote-splitting and strategic voting provided the lone spark. Debate on the substantive issues, though, like hydro rates, job creation, and the doctor shortage, was curiously muted here, outside […]
Across Ontario, young individuals are taking control and working hard to make a difference within their communities. The youth of today are our leaders of tomorrow. There’s one in every crowd and they deserve to be recognized for their contributions. Have a look within our community and see who stands […]
It’s amazing to see that the legacy of Terry Fox remains so strong 31 years after his initial “Marathon of Hope.” Although Terry was forced to quit his cross-country trek near Thunder Bay when cancer spread to his lungs, eventually claiming his life the following June a month shy of […]
We have now passed the 10th anniversary of 9/11. Little did Canadians realize that the event would continue to have an impact on their lives over the next decade. It wasn’t the attack on the World Trade centre building that was going to cause damage. It was the attack on […]
With longtime NDP MPP Howard Hampton stepping aside after almost a quarter-century at Queen’s Park, the candidates for the three main parties here in Kenora-Rainy River face the daunting task of getting themselves known to voters across the riding over the next four weeks. NDP hopeful Sarah Campbell has spent […]
