When Rainy River District was ripped from Kenora last year by some brainy bureaucrats in Ottawa, and then attached to the old Thunder Bay-Atikokan riding, the big fear was whether the same thing would happen at the provincial level. It appears the writing is on the wall. If you recall, […]
Editorials
Premier Dalton McGuinty certainly spouted off every bit of rhetoric on democracy he could muster when he introduced legislation at Queen’s Park that, if passed, would set the first Thursday in October as the date provincial elections would be held every four years. “Elections do not belong to premiers to […]
Picture in your mind, for a moment, the young men who will be crossing the stage inside the Ice for Kids Arena later this month to receive their high school diplomas. Perhaps one of them is your son or grandson, a brother or nephew. And no doubt they’ll be grinning […]
Hopefully the mayor, those councillors who support “bag tags,” and town administration aren’t expecting residents to spill into the streets of Fort Frances in joyful thanks for being graciously allowed one free bag of garbage a week, as well as the continued privilege of using the big green bags and […]
Finance minister Greg Sorbara delivered his budget and it has thundered like a cold wash cloth across the face. Ontarians have, for several years, lived beyond their means and the changes unleashed by the Liberal government will have a long, lasting impact. We have complained about waiting times for surgery, […]
District motorists were shocked to see prices at the pumps skyrocket about 10 cents a litre practically overnight late last week to hit what’s believed to be the highest price ever for gasoline here. And the summer season—typically a time when gas costs more anyway due to higher consumer demand—hasn’t […]
While many new municipal leaders, including Fort Frances Mayor Dan Onichuk and Couns. Tannis Drysdale and Rick Wiedenhoeft, were gathering for the first time at the annual general meeting of the Northwestern Ontario Municipal Association last week in Thunder Bay, it also was the first such meeting for the new […]
April Fool’s night, 1989 will be forever etched into the hearts and minds of the 3,000 people jam-packed into the old Memorial Arena to watch our beloved Muskies capture all-Ontario gold on home ice with that 5-3 win over the St. Jerome’s Lions (Kitchener). Fortunately, thanks to the hard work […]
Members of the local Business Improvement Area deserve kudos for getting together at the Civic Centre last night to solicit ideas and hammer out strategies to revitalize the downtown core in the face of Wal-Mart’s opening here in January. Most on hand admitted they have been losing to Wal-Mart over […]
It seems most councillors were reluctant to talk about video lottery terminals (VLTs) at Monday night’s meeting, and let’s hope it stays that way. It’s somewhat ironic that the issue of VLTs in local bars, restaurants, and other establishments came back before council the same week the Alberta Knights of […]
The public—out of the loop because most of the discussion was done behind closed doors—will never know if Mark McCaig was town council’s first choice to be the new CAO for Fort Frances, or if he was offered the job because others had turned it down. Regardless, Mr. McCaig looks […]
Both the local Canadian Parents for French and Northwest Catholic District School Board should be lauded for keeping the French Immersion program afloat at the senior kindergarten level here this September despite enrolment that falls short of the minimum number of students the board requires. The value of local students […]
