Walter Christiansen, 94, of Fort Frances, Ont., passed away Friday, Nov. 7, 2014 at Rainycrest Long-Term Care in Fort Frances. Funeral services are pending, and a complete obituary will follow.
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It looks like our weather finally is starting to get a little bit more winter-like this week after quite a few nice days over the past month. Earlier in the week, I got out on Lake of the Woods to film my final TV show of the season and we […]
I am Canadian. I’m not A Canadian or THE Canadian. I am Canadian, in the same way I am brown-eyed and right-handed. I am Canadian. I take great pride in this attribute; not in the sense that being Canadian makes me superior to any other, though it certainly makes me […]
The plane was quiet on the trip home from Toronto. The reality was setting in. The adrenalin that coursed through the veins of the district delegates for a day-and-a-half had dissolved. The delegation had made its case to transfer the Crossroute Forest away from Resolute. The two opposition parties, meanwhile, […]
Wow, here we are–November! This year certainly has slipped past (I think it’s because we always were waiting for better weather!) It was nice that Hallowe’en came and went with decent weather for the trick-or-treaters! Unfortunately, poor Marlee ended up missing all the Hallowe’en fun and spent the day in […]
This past week, Hallowe’en week no less, the Conservatives tabled a new monster 479-page omnibus budget bill. While it contains a few treats, the bill also is chock full of the same old tired tricks. It’s hard to complain that every single page of every single bill tabled by this […]
It’s fall again—autumn if you want to wax poetic. And think about it for a minute, what would autumn be without leaves? Oaks, maples, aspens, cottonwoods, green ash trees. Blanketing the countryside with colour. It’s because of autumn leaves that we think nostalgically and longingly of New England, the Ozarks, […]
A “David-and-Goliath” fight. A “Hail Mary” attempt. Both are apt descriptions of the delegation of district municipal leaders and First Nations’ chiefs that descended on Queen’s Park earlier this week to plead the case to wrest control of the Crossroute Forest from Resolute Forest Products. Time will tell if their […]
Dear Mike: I’m attaching a letter I sent to Premier Kathleen Wynne. I hope that all who are capable of writing to the Ontario government will do so A.S.A.P. Dear Premier Wynne: We heard with disbelief the news that talks have broken off between Resolve Forest Products, Expera, and your […]
Dear editor: I am writing this letter to encourage parents to take their children to the Fort Frances Museum to see all the medals, uniforms, and hand-crafted items made by local soldiers who served in WWI and WWII while waiting in the trenches. Most touching are the stories that the […]
Dear editor: Firstly, I would like to offer my thanks for allowing me to express my opinion through your newspaper. In my opinion, hindsight is always a clearer view of the journey. The results of the Oct. 28 Fort Frances town council meeting, at which I made a presentation, has […]
