Local News from Across the Rainy River District
For the Wiersemas, reunions with the entire extended family are a tradition, and part of that tradition is raising money for their community. This year, they broke their own record by raising $8,000 for the Rainy River Health Centre. Jan and Froukje Wiersema first moved from the Netherlands to Canada […]
The Atikokan Progress is sponsoring an all-candidates meeting to be held at the Atikokan Legion Hall on Wednesday, Sept. 30, from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. This is a chance for residents to hear the points and perspectives of potential future councillors and compare the policies of the two mayoral candidates, […]
The announcement of a $4.7-billion Via Rail contract for the Thunder Bay Alstom plant will put the city in the spotlight as the place to invest in manufacturing and other industries. “Honestly, it feels like Christmas,” Charla Robinson, president of the Thunder Bay Chamber of Commerce, said. “This is something […]
The Solicitor General has given municipalities that rely on OPP policing notice that it plans to cap increases again. No municipality will see its total cost rise more than 11 percent from 2026. That excludes special contracts for extra policing, which some municipalities have. The OPP is getting the 2027 […]
The scale of markets for goods that come in or are exported at the Port of Thunder Bay depends on downstream investments that Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney says are being made by his government. “We’re getting the downstream ones right,” Carney said, during a visit to Thunder Bay last […]
A $4.7-billion investment by the federal government for Alstom to build 313 Via Rail cars in Thunder Bay means an additional 200-300 skilled-trades workers will be needed to fill the jobs. Jason Roberts, president of Unifor union Local 1075, says not only will the Via Rail contract create jobs at […]
KENORA – Finishing their first week back to school, the Kenora Catholic District School Board said they’re off to a “very positive start.” “That first day you can always feel the peak of energy and excitement and you see students reconnecting with friends and staff,” said Jamey Robertson, CEO of […]
THUNDER BAY – To recognize their contribution to the history of the fur trade, City Hall hoisted the Canadian Corps of Voyageurs flag on Friday morning in honour of the organization’s 50th anniversary. “Fifty years. How many volunteer groups make it to 50 years? And we have one member here […]
SIOUX NARROWS–NESTOR FALLS — Forty years after Sioux Narrows published its own local history book, a sequel is in the making. In 1985, Beyond the Bridge: Sioux Narrows was published, preserving the history of the remote community and the families that had lived and travelled there. On Monday, the Sioux […]
Following the last federal election, the government changed the title of the minister responsible for the Canadian Heritage ministry. The ministry kept its name, but the minister is now the Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture. Changing the minister’s title to include the word “identity” sounds welcoming, but will it make […]
Facing devastating climate-fuelled impacts to their rivers and wildlife, Yukon First Nations are increasingly mobilizing to intensify monitoring research. The territory’s water chemistry has been changing over the last 20 years, with drastic shifts in the past few years that have been causing greater alarm. Growing evidence indicates that thawing […]
Thunder Bay will play a major role in building the next generation of VIA Rail passenger cars following a more than $4.7-billion federal investment announced this morning that will inevitably have a spillover effect across the Rainy River District. Speaking at a press conference in Thunder Bay, Prime Minister Mark […]
