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Lola Bridges of Etobicoke, Ont., won $2,784,817 in the Thunder Bay 50/50’s August Grand Prize draw after purchasing a $50 ticket. According to the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Foundation, it was the largest grand prize ever awarded outside the last three December holiday draws, surpassing July’s $2,772,840 prize. It’s […]

SIOUX LOOKOUT – A new fireworks bylaw will soon take effect in Sioux Lookout, only allowing the use of fireworks without a permit on specific days of the year. These specific days include three days before and after Canada Day, the Saturday immediately before or after Diwali, and New Year’s […]

KENORA – One hundred people gathered by Kenora’s Jarnel Contracting Pavillion to participate in the Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event on Wednesday. Each year, people all over the world walk the distance wearing red high heels to raise awareness and end sexualized violence. In Kenora, participants were joined […]

Every candidate who filed to run for trustee in the Rainy River District School Board has been acclaimed. For the town of Rainy River, there were no candidates and the position is still vacant. The school board could still extend the nomination period for its Rainy River trustee, but whether […]

“We’re not protesters. We’re protectors.” That’s what Michel Koostachin, founder of the grassroots group Friends of the Attawapiskat River, declared as he launched the first legal challenge against a Ring of Fire access road, days after the federal government approved the project in the “public interest” despite its own impact […]

A side note in a Library and Archives Canada document indicated that her great-great-grandfather Raymond Miron was a snowshoe mail carrier, and this led to author Louise Bradford’s new children’s book Sage and the Snowshoe Express. A member of Batchewana First Nation in northwest Ont., Bradford admits she didn’t understand […]

The Labourers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA) Local 607 is hosting a full house of high school students in Thunder Bay who want to learn about the skilled trades industry. Andy Nieweglowski, director of training at the union local in Thunder Bay, said it used its skill development fund […]

Almost 400 Thunder Bay Community Living employees, members of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU/SEPFO) Local 740, are heading back to work this week after 13 weeks on the picket line. The union bargained with the provincial government to increase funding by 6.5 per cent for all the agencies […]