Elisa Nguyen
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
enguyen@fortfrances.com

Nite Hawk Band will be landing in Emo, Ontario, for the annual Rainy River Valley Agricultural Society Fall Fair next week. The four-man band is composed of James Eastman, lead guitarist, singer, and band leader; Wes Debungie, bass player; John McEvoy, drummer and vocalist; and Adrian Indian, vocalist and guitarist. […]

By Elisa Nguyen
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
enguyen@fortfrances.com

Nothing demonstrates community spirit quite like parades. A procession of people, floats, kings and queens march through the streets surrounded by crowds of people — of all ages and places — to celebrate a common event. While having a fun time is the focus of the procession, a little friendly […]

By Megan Walchuk
Editor
mwalchuk@fortfrances.com

The 4-H steer auction, with its cattle being led calmly in a circle on leads, is a popular stop at the Emo Fair. Those not raised around cattle might assume that cattle are naturally that docile. But that walk is just the final product of months of tireless effort, bruises, […]

By Daniel Adam
Staff Writer
dadam@fortfrances.com

Rustin Chartier’s year-and-a-half-old steer Melvin will be up for auction this weekend at the Emo Fall Fair. Coming in around 1,350 lbs, Melvin is a testament to the hard work of Chartier’s whole family. Rustin, 12, and his brother Ryker, 8, have been helping raise the pure-bred Charolais since their […]

Dave Baxter
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Winnipeg Sun

It has been nine years since the death of Tina Fontaine and the discovery of her body in the Red River shocked Winnipeg and the entire country and led to demands for a national inquiry into the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. Now almost a decade […]

Press release

(KENORA, ON) – An arrest warrant has now been issued in connection to a suspicious death in Sabaskong Bay (Ojibways of Onigaming) First Nation. On August 7, 2023, shortly after 1:30 p.m. Treaty Three Police responded to a home on Anishinaabe Road, where a woman was located deceased. The victim […]

Press release

UPDATE: An individual who was reported missing on August 7, 2023, has been located deceased by members of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Aviation Services and members of the OPP Emergency Response Team (ERT). On August 16, 2023, members of the OPP Aviation Services and ERT located an individual who […]

By Sandi Krasowski, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The Chronicle-Journal

The former Resolute Forest Products paper mill in Thunder Bay has been acquired by Atlas Holdings and has undergone a name change to Thunder Bay Pulp and Paper Inc. The mill, which has been a leader in the pulp and paper industry in Ontario for more than a century, is […]

By Kevin Jeffrey
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Thunder Bay Source

There’s a growing interest in who becomes the next leader of the Ontario Liberal Party. That’s one of the takeaways from a recent visit by candidate Ted Hsu, who has been on a tour of Northwestern Ontario, which included a stop at the Red Lion Smokehouse on Thursday night. Hsu, […]

By Carl Clutchey
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The Chronicle-Journal

Like Paul McCartney’s fire engine in his iconic Penny Lane, it’s going to be “a clean machine.” That’s what hockey players and their fans will soon see circling inside Oliver Paipoonge’s NorWest Arena. A plan announced last Friday to equip the rink with an emissions-free ice cleaner is part of […]

By Kaitlyn Smith and Serena Austin
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
New Canadian Media

Canadian universities and colleges raked in more than $9.6 billion in tuition from international students in a single year. Despite making up just 17 per cent of students studying in Canada, international students contributed 43.5 per cent of all tuition fees collected in 2020, according to the most recent survey […]