It will be a busy week in Fort Frances Town Council, with several committee meetings and a Special Council Meeting on the agenda. This morning, both the Planning and Development Executive Committee and the Community Services Executive Committee met. Coming over the next few days will be an Administration and […]
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Riverside Health Care in conjunction with the Northwestern Public Health Unit has declared a COVID- 19 Outbreak for the East and West wings of Rainycrest Long Term Care Home. Enhanced visitor restrictions are in place that permit two (2) visitors or caregivers at a time in the affected unit. In […]
Press release
(KENORA, ON) Members of the Kenora Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are looking to the public to assist in locating a missing 67-year-old male. Stanley is described as a Caucasian male with a slim build, short grey hair last seen wearing jeans, a green jacket, and beige shoes. […]
By Paula Brown
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Shelburne Free Press
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Shelburne Free Press
The Orangeville & District Animal Centre has joined other Ontario SPCA and Humane Society animal centres to help give over 30 cats a chance at finding loving homes through a northern animal transfer initiative. The special feline passengers arrived last week and were transported by the Ontario SPCA from the […]
By Natasha Bulowski
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Canada's national Observer
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Canada's national Observer
Next-generation nuclear technology “has no part in fighting the climate emergency,” Green Party Leader Elizabeth May said Tuesday as a handful of MPs joined anti-nuclear activists to voice concern about the federal government’s intention to expand nuclear power. “It, in fact, takes valuable dollars away from things that we know […]
By Eric Shih
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Two children who died in a highway crash last week are being remembered as always smiling and spreading light and joy to everyone around them. A procession for Callie Joseph, 15, and her younger brother Evan Joseph, 11, took place Tuesday afternoon from Kenora to their home Iskatewizaagegan 39, also […]
The Fort Frances Mill Alumni 11th Annual Dinner is scheduled for May 31. Mill Alumni members do not want to lose sight of the role they played in the lives of people throughout the district, even though the mill is out of sight. Our Alumni Annual Banquet attendance has increased […]
Press release
(COLLINS, ON) – Members of the Thunder Bay Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Crime Unit have arrested and charged one individual with fraud. On September 16, 2022, the OPP was notified of fraudulent activity takin place at a business in the Thunder Bay area. The investigation, with the […]
By Jessica Smith
THE CANADIAN PRESS
THE CANADIAN PRESS
A township in southwestern Ontario has voted to prohibit Pride flags on municipal property, prompting expressions of dismay from some residents. In a Tuesday evening meeting, the council for the Township of Norwich passed a motion to fly only the flags of the federal, provincial and municipal governments on its […]
THE CANADIAN PRESS
TORONTO – The Liquor Control Board of Ontario says it will phase out paper bags at its retail stores, a move the provincial agency says will save the equivalent of 188,000 trees each year. The Crown corporation says 15 years after it trashed single-use plastic bags, it will discontinue paper […]
THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA – The Liberal government is showing no hints it will end the strike of its largest public sector union by legislating 155,000 federal civil servants back to work. The workers with the Public Service Alliance of Canada walked off the job nine days ago after contract negotiations with the […]
By Liam Casey
THE CANADIAN PRESS
THE CANADIAN PRESS
TORONTO – Leaders of northern Ontario First Nations descended upon Queen’s Park in Toronto on Wednesday to deliver a message to the province: they want to be equal partners on any kind of development in their territories. As part of making their point, the First Nations throughout Treaty 9 territory […]
