District residents have a unique opportunity this week to literally see our past come to life with the arrival of the David Thompson Brigade—a group of 160 modern-day voyageurs paddling 16 25-foot north canoes from Rocky Mountain House in Alberta to Old Fort William at Thunder Bay. The brigade was […]
Editorials
Sewer and water only is important to voters when they don’t have those services. Politicians realize this, knowing that once the pipe is buried, it is invisible to the electorate. It is much more fun, and provides more recognition, to build arenas and resurface roads that remains visible to the […]
A great outcry roared across the land last week. No, it wasn’t over whether Foreign Affairs ministers should be dating women linked to organized crime. It did not revolve around legislation aimed at curbing greenhouse gases or the Liberals repeatedly skipping confidence votes in the House of Commons to avoid […]
The guilty verdict delivered last Thursday afternoon in Don Smith’s second trial on obscenity charges, along with the drug raid Friday that led to five local residents being nabbed, certainly created the most buzz around town over the past week. In the Smith trial, the jury, having viewed the evidence, […]
As politicians continue to bicker over how best to tackle—and reverse—the ever-worsening impact of global warming, it’s great to see young people are taking matters into their own hands to make our world a “greener” place. Here at J.W. Walker School, a very active environmental club, consisting of more than […]
We’ve all seen the commercials on TV—you know, the one where two young children are looking down on their mother passed out on the couch in mid-afternoon next to a bottle of booze on the coffee table. Or youngsters cowering in their bedroom at night while their parents scream at […]
The forest industry may be the prime victim of the economic woes hurting Northwestern Ontario these days, but the tourism industry certainly is a close second. Back in 2001, the peak year of the past decade, the tourism industry brought in more than $300 million to the area while employing […]
First the good news. The 2006 census data Statistics Canada released last Thursday showed the median income for families in Fort Frances jumped 15.3 percent to $75,934 since 2001 (when adjusted for inflation)—a whopping hike compared to a national increase of 3.7 percent and a provincial increase of just 1.4 […]
The perception that you “can’t fight city hall” is nothing new, but it certainly has become an even more prevailing attitude among local citizens of late. We hear it in the coffee shops—and see it in the poor turnout for municipal elections and at many public meetings. But a group […]
Who wouldn’t prefer to eat fresh meat and produce that came from a nearby farm rather than being trucked in from destinations hundreds or even thousands of kilometres away? It certainly makes sense from a taste point of view, not to mention the benefit of keeping dollars in the local […]
One can’t help but be inspired by the story of Melissa McCormick, the Windsor, Ont. woman who was kidnapped and brutally gang-raped in Detroit when she was just 19 years old. Her ordeal caused her to plunge into depression, which eventually led to an addiction to valium and pain-killers, and […]
District residents certainly were caught off-guard last week with word that Greyhound had applied to discontinue its bus service between Fort Frances and Thunder Bay effective May 4. We’ve since learned that Greyhound did not comply with provisions under the Public Vehicles Act regarding its notification to discontinue the service, […]
