I’d love to say that I’ve been in a warm southern destination for the last four weeks—soaking up the sun while handsome tanned men with six packs fed me fresh cooked seafood and glasses of ice tea. Alas, ’tis not the case. I’ve been right here in my neck of […]
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If there is one place in Northwestern Ontario that I wished I spent more time fishing when I was younger, it certainly has to be the Rainy River in early April. Every spring, thousands of walleyes from Lake of the Woods make a run up the 137-km river in pursuit […]
If the current weather trends continue, I hope to be able to both attend Spring Fever Days in Emo and rake and clean my yard by April 22. Looking ahead on my cellphone, 10 days out gives hope that the days will be warmer. I am hoping the lawn will […]
“Kermit” told us it wasn’t easy being green, but it’s even more not easy being two (if you’ll pardon my grammar). Perhaps that is why we have little memory of being two when we reach my age, though I must confess a lot of things fall into the category of […]
Well, April seems to have come in like a Lion! And how about that snow on Friday–quite the April Fool’s Day prank but it seems to want to continue, with more white stuff in the forecast this week. We can’t complain about the yard being sloppy since it is frozen […]
Don Rusnak
Member of Parliament
Thunder Bay-Rainy River
Member of Parliament
Thunder Bay-Rainy River
On March 16, the federal government took an essential step to grow the middle class and revitalize the Canadian economy. The 2016 budget puts people first and delivers the help that Canadians need now, not a decade from now. It is an essential step to restore prosperity to the middle […]
As in many areas of the continent, we’ve had an unusually warm winter—and spring is continuing warm. With that warmth has come lots of sickness, especially very “thorny” colds. Colds that last and last. Colds that make people ill and result in very low life energy. Personally, I think the […]
There aren’t many district events that can boast a 75-year plus history. The Rainy River District Festival of the Performing Arts is among those few—getting underway today for the 76th time and running through April 22, with the annual “Highlights” concert set for Tuesday, May 10 at 6:30 p.m. at […]
Randy Crampton Dear editor: Please let me start off with stating how proud I am, as a Canadian, and how much I agree with the decision that our new federal government made regarding providing the many thousands of Syrian refugees a safe and healthy place to call home and raise […]
Nathalie Donaldson Dear Mike: Although the Rainy Lake Market Square Advisory Committee already has decided against the fort-themed market square, I would like to clarify the, perhaps misconstrued, intent behind this idea. In gathering public input for the project, I have heard from numerous people working in tourism and retail […]
Dave Erwin Dear editor: I was disappointed to see your article in the March 30/16 edition of the Times in which Lindsay Strickland and Cathie Sinninghe made a plea for a family change room at the Sportsplex. I found it sad that one of the excuses trotted out was the […]
Terri Galusha Dear editor: In response to Duane Hicks’ March 30 article, it is good to hear the Fort Frances Physician Recruitment and Retention Committee continues to work on getting more doctors to our area. Yet funding ideas for recruitment and retention were limited to suggesting that locum physicians, coming […]
