Kudos to Canadians from coast to coast who led the world for an hour Saturday night in delivering the message it’s time for concrete action on climate change. Dubbed “Earth Hour,” which was begun last year in Sydney, Australia as the brainchild of the World Wildlife Fund, people across the […]
Editorials
The most valuable piece of undeveloped real estate space on the planet has to be Central Park. Located smack dab in the middle of Manhattan, can you just imagine the dollar signs ringing up in the eyes of the likes of Donald Trump if it ever was opened up to […]
The drive to build a new library here hit a major pothole late last month with news the province had denied a $500,000 grant application to the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corp. The decision means the town will have to foot more of the bill for the $3.9-million project—and left […]
Play with fire enough times and you’re bound to get burned. The federal Liberals have spent the past several months doing anything and everything to avoid an election they know they can’t win. They’ve abstained from crucial votes, or had just enough members in the House so as to ensure […]
There’s perhaps nothing more frightening than being roused from your bed in the wee hours of the morning by police or firefighters pounding on the front door with orders to get out. Still in the fog of sleep, you may have mere minutes to basically leave with the clothes on […]
A television commercial for the Business News Network, currently airing, features a clip of a woman wanting to know more on how she can save for her retirement. The obvious answer, of course, is “Don’t spend as much today.” Unfortunately, for far too many Canadians, that just isn’t an option. […]
Rainy River First Nations Chief Jim Leonard said yesterday he feels the incident involving a video of six Fort Frances High School students mocking a pow-wow is being “swept under the rug” by both the high school and Rainy River District School Board. Judging by their actions so far, Chief […]
If it takes a library to raise a community (according to the slogan on a bag Joyce Cunningham carries around), then Fort Frances will be in very good hands, indeed. The latest plans for the proposed Fort Frances Library and Technology Centre—a 15,000 sq. ft. facility to be located at […]
Everyone involved with “A Wacky River Cruise,” this year’s version of the VALA Variety Show, deserves a standing ovation—not just for staging three enjoyable performances on the weekend, but for showing the rest of us how important it is to just have fun. Judging from all the pictures in today’s […]
With F.H. Huffman School likely to close, in favour of consolidating its students in a new school at the Robert Moore site on Second Street East, the last of the public board’s small “neighbourhood” schools will be gone. The slow process actually began in the early 1980s with the closure […]
Congratulations to Ken Perry, who was sworn in as town councillor last night after winning Mondays byelection, and thanks to Todd Hamilton for letting his name stand so voters of Fort Frances could have a choice. Sadly, though, the first byelection in our towns 105-year history will be remembered most […]
An idea to give residents one free tipping pass at the local landfill this year, currently being tossed around as town council wrestles with the 2008 municipal budget, is a good one. It looks to be a great replacement for the highly-successful high school cleanup that Walter Horban spearheaded for […]
