Staff

Borderland Pride has offered to drop a human rights complaint against The Township of Emo, if a set of conditions are met. The Pride organization issued a formal complaint against the Township to the Human Rights Tribunal, after council voted against a Pride affirming proclamation and flag raising heading into […]

By Allan Bradbury
Staff Writer
abradbury@fortfrances.com

A lot of the old favourites will be back but the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce is hoping that more businesses will rent tables for the April 26-27 expo which will bring visitors from across the District to see what Fort Frances has to offer. Heather Johnson is the Executive […]

Elisa Nguyen
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
enguyen@fortfrances.com

Fishing guides from the United States are being permitted to work in Canadian waters, causing local Canadian businesses to sound the alarm to government officials without much success. “We want to know why people from the United States are given work permits to come work in Canada to exploit our […]

By Ken Kellar
Staff writer
kkellar@fortfrances.com

Scientists are looking at new ways to monitor the health of our local waterways, and they want the public’s help to do so. As part of the 2024 Ag Day event held this past Saturday, April 6, 2024, in Chapple, Teika Newton, the international watershed coordinator with the Lake of […]

Elisa Nguyen
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
enguyen@fortfrances.com

Yesterday was my last official day of work as a reporter for the Fort Frances Times, so I wanted to take this opportunity to try and capture how much my time here has meant to me. For the longest time, writing has been a form of self exploration and a […]

From the NWHU
Press release

From April 8-12, 2024, Northwestern Health Unit (NWHU) proudly joins the nation in celebrating Canadian Public Health Week, an occasion to recognize the important contributions of public health. The impact of public health interventions is remarkable. Recent analysis from the Canadian Public Health Agency emphasizes the substantial return on investment, […]

By Mike Stimpson
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

KENORA – Area First Nations will continue receiving primary care services in their communities thanks to $3.6 million in funding from the provincial government, the executive director of Kenora Chiefs Advisory said on Friday. First Nation communities have historically experienced a gap in physician care and other primary health care, […]

By Carl Clutchey
Local Journalism Initiative reporter
The Chronicle-Journal

When Maxine McCulloch first began working among books, few would have expected to be able to rent a pickleball racquet at a library. The fact that you can do just that at Rosslyn’s library is a sign of how such facilities have sought ways to remain relevant in a social-media […]

By Serena Austin
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Kenora Miner and News

The Lake of the Woods District Hospital’s emergency department has never been forced to close, and the hospital’s President and CEO intends to keep it that way with the help of temporary doctors.   A provincial program that incentivizes physicians to pick up shifts in rural and northern hospitals will be extended […]

By Dave Baxter
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Winnipeg Sun

A Winnipeg church is taking a bold step towards reconciliation with Indigenous people by including reparations in their annual budget. “The Christian church has emerged out of the settler-colonial mindset and taken property and land. It has grown society and grown intergenerational wealth off of the land that was taken,” […]