Local News from Across the Rainy River District
Smoking and vaping and alcohol and cannabis use by youth in the Rainy River region remain sharply above the provincial average, according to a recent COMPASS survey of health trends among students in grades nine to 12. The study, which also examined health concerns such as eating and sleeping, screen […]
It was a chilly afternoon for the Muskies’ home opener but that didn’t deter a great crowd of Muskie supporters. The Muskies scored early and often as they opened the Winnipeg High School Football League season against an undermanned Maroons team from Daniel McIntyre Collegiate Institute in Winnipeg. Fullback Landon […]
In less than 10 days the Fort Frances Lakers will drop the puck on the 2025-26 season when they face off against the Red Lake Miners and the Dryden Ice Dogs in a back-to-back home series to launch the SIJHL’s 25th season. Formerly the team’s General Manager and Assistant Coach, […]
(Editor’s note: A member of the Times family, our frequent contributor Henry Miller, passed away last week at the age of 90. According to family, Henry wrote this column just a few days before passing, with the intent of walking it down to our office so we could publish it, […]
(Editor’s note: The Fort Frances Times has lost one of its foundational supporters, benefactors and cheerleaders. Del Cumming passed away last Thursday evening, one week shy of her 99th Birthday. We originally ran this piece for Mother’s Day in 2024, celebrating the “Office Mom” so many staff and visitors to […]
(THUNDER BAY, ON) – One individual from British Columbia is facing several charges under the Criminal Code (CC) and the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA) following a drug trafficking investigation in Thunder Bay. In May 2025, the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP)-led Provincial Guns and Gangs Enforcement Team (PGNG) and […]
The Canadian government has included Northern Ontario in a series of investments aimed at strengthening Canada through challenging. Thunder Bay-Superior North MP Patty Hajdu, who is the minister responsible for the FedNor economic development agency for Northern Ontario, outlined investments to strengthen economic resilience across Northern Ontario which build on […]
A popular recreational lake just east of Thunder Bay has been getting some tender-loving care lately. Concerned in the wake of recently confirmed cases of blue-green algae cases in the lake, a group of supporters dubbed the Loon Lake Waterkeepers Conservancy aims to ramp up efforts to promote stewardship of […]
A pair of award-winning Indigenous filmmakers teamed up to create a feature documentary that will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising will be screened for the first time on Sept. 10. A second showing of the film will be held on Sept. […]
Children Like Us: A Métis Woman’s Memoir of Family, Identity and Walking Herself Home is Brittany Penner’s account of being adopted as a baby by a Mennonite family in Manitoba and searching for her birth parents. Such an adoption practise—having white families raise Indigenous children—continues, points out Penner, who is now […]
THUNDER BAY — The minister holding Canada’s jobs and families portfolio fired back at the federal opposition leader’s claim that immigration — specifically the temporary foreign worker program — is to blame for rising unemployment. In a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney dated Sept. 7 and about a week […]
A race is underway to save Ontario’s vanishing American chestnut trees, once a dominant species in the province’s southern forests. This summer, two undergraduate students from the University of Guelph are trekking through forests to find, tag and assess the few chestnuts that remain. An estimated two million of the […]
