Changing the lyrics to “O Canada,” the trial balloon floated by the Harper government in last Wednesday’s throne speech, went over like a lead balloon—forcing the Tories to backtrack within 48 hours. The vast majority voiced outage against revamping the line “in all thy sons command” to something more gender […]
Editorials
Margaret Schonewille, the face and driving force behind the Alzheimer Society of Kenora/Rainy River Districts for so many years, has left her position as executive director to become director of development at Providence College and Seminary in Steinbach, Man. Their gain is certainly our loss. First serving as a board […]
There was something about “Own The Podium” that didn’t sit right even before the Olympic cauldron was lit nearly two weeks ago to open the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver. The idea behind the program—to provide better funding for our elite athletes so they, in turn, had a chance to […]
“It takes money to make money” is an old adage that applies to the trip a trio of local residents is taking to Birmingham, Ala. to promote Fort Frances and Rainy Lake at an outdoors expo being held in conjunction with the annual Bassmaster Classic fishing tournament this weekend. After […]
The quality of health care is a critical issue to any community, whether in a major city like Toronto or small-town Fort Frances. As such, the public is right to demand to be fully informed of the situation at the Fort Frances Community Clinic and, more specifically, on the efforts […]
With voter turnout now teetering dangerously close to the 50 percent mark, and where majority governments can be elected with barely one-third support of those who bothered to cast a ballot, there’s no question our political system is not perfect. But why this growing fascination with the American system as […]
It’s a sad sign of the times if the best we can come up with for “Family Day” is two hours of free skating and swimming at the Memorial Sports Centre. Town council at least made an effort to suggest something that would, in the words of Mayor Roy Avis, […]
The world’s response to help the victims of last Tuesday’s catastrophic earthquake in Haiti has been swift and overwhelming. The problem hasn’t been the volume of relief supplies pouring in from countries, including Canada, but rather how to get it into the hands of the hundreds of thousands left injured, […]
We’ve all seen the commercials: the couple unplugging the alarm clock, driving in a snazzy convertible, and basking on a beach. “Imagine the freedom” is firmly entrenched in the psyche of Canadians as the road to a retirement of carefree days, travel, and luxury. Where all that separates you and […]
When Jordan Eberle netted his second goal in just over a minute to draw Canada even with the United States in the gold-medal game of the world junior hockey championship last night, jubilant Canadian fans couldn’t be blamed for feeling déja-vu. After all, in their preliminary-round game on New Year’s […]
Not many people are likely to shed a tear when we close the book on 2009 at midnight tomorrow. On top of a deep recession that was ravaging the country, the local economy took an extra hit back in the spring with word AbitibiBowater was filing for bankruptcy protection—leaving many […]
Do you have Olympic fever yet? The excellent display of curling at the men’s and women’s trials in Edmonton last week, which saw Kevin Martin and Cheryl Bernard snag berths to the Vancouver Games in February, surely stirred Olympic spirit. And you can bet it will spike even more when […]
