It’s understandable if many district residents still feel leery over the new federal riding of Thunder Bay-Rainy River, which officially comes into being April 1. Gone are our traditional ties with our similarly-sized neighbours to the north, like Kenora and Dryden, who share many of the same challenges and issues […]
Editorials
Town council has been tossing around a major tax hike, much higher user fees, service cuts, and metered water usage as it tries to wrestle with a monstrous $2.7-million shortfall for the 2004 budget. It was inevitable, then, that the notion of “bag tags” for garbage was sure to rear […]
The Times welcomed new sports reporter Amy Scanlon from Ottawa earlier this month and she’s certainly had to hit the ground running. This past weekend alone, there was the ladies’ bonspiel to cover, along with a girls’ Atom and Novice hockey tournament, a women’s hockey exhibition series, a men’s and […]
Though lauded for his concern about the health consequences of exposure to second-hand smoke, ultimately the chief medical officer of health for the Northwestern Health Unit was whistled for overstepping his bounds in trying to ban smoking in all enclosed public places in the Kenora and Rainy River districts. In […]
On the surface, a resolution unanimously passed by town council at its regular meeting Monday night was aimed at calming the masses, so to speak, in stating the town only was in the preliminary stages of balancing the 2004 budget and that no decisions had been made yet. It also […]
The party leaders have staked out their platforms, the candidates have said their piece. Now it’s our turn. Once again, residents of Rainy River District are being asked to help determine the make-up of the next Parliament in Ottawa. And if you believe the polls, our votes could be the […]
The municipal council of Fort Frances has been quite forthright about the community’s financial shape. The town’s financial books may not be as rosy as they have been in the past decade, but the community’s reserves do cover its total debt. With that said, though, it must be understood those […]
The chilliness that characterized the relationship between former prime minister Jean Chrétien and U.S. President George W. Bush certainly wasn’t new—if anything, a warm, friendly camaraderie between prime ministers and presidents has been the exception, not the rule, over the past 40 years. Generally speaking, Liberals and Republicans (and to […]
It’s natural for people to associate New Year’s with starting fresh, wiping the slate clean, so to speak, and moving on free of the baggage from the past 365 days. In reality, of course, we can never leave the past completely behind us—no matter how determined our efforts or best […]
John Manley bailed. So did Herb Dhaliwal. Allan Rock also left, though not before accepting the plum post of Canadian ambassador to the United Nations in New York City. It might have been just as easy for local MP Robert Nault to jump ship as well after it was confirmed […]
Relatively few Canadians, and no doubt even fewer Americans, know that on that terrible day of Sept. 11, 2001, it was a Canadian who ordered the skies over North America shut down in hopes of thwarting any other potential hijackings. The decision was made deep inside Cheyenne Mountain by NORAD, […]
Unfortunately, we’ve had not one, but two, shameful reminders over the past week that there are a few idiots among us who like to ruin things for everyone else. The first, of course, was the mindless shooting of two elk near Finland, which apparently left a young calf orphaned in […]
