With the Labour Day long weekend quickly approaching, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is reminding travellers that crossings can be extra busy as families and tourists fit in one last summer trip. As such, CBSA is giving tips to ensure crossing the border anywhere in the country goes as […]
District News
By Natasha Bulowski, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Canada's National Observer
Canada's National Observer
Canada is known for its cold winters, but thanks to climate change, extreme heat is increasingly becoming a matter of life and death. To cope, many Canadians turn to central air conditioners to cool their homes. A new report by multiple climate policy research groups says this is a missed opportunity to switch […]
By Dave Baxter
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Winnipeg Sun
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Winnipeg Sun
The Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC) say they are concerned about proposed spending cuts at Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) and about what those cuts could mean for people they say are already struggling to receive adequate and equitable services in First Nations communities. “Our people are already grappling with chronically […]
Police briefs
(FORT FRANCES, ON) – A search warrant in the Town of Fort Frances has resulted in four individuals being arrested and charged with drug offences. On August 23, 2023, members of the Rainy River District Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU) and Kenora OPP Organized Crime Enforcement […]
By Elisa Nguyen
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
enguyen@fortfrances.com
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
enguyen@fortfrances.com
Stanford Kuzanga says it feels “crushing” to tell an individual he cannot help them, only to learn days later that they have died for the very reason they sought support. As a detox intake manager at the Giishkaandago’Ikwe Health Services in Fort Frances, Kuzanga has a front row seat to […]
By Daniel Adam
Staff Writer
dadam@fortfrances.com
Staff Writer
dadam@fortfrances.com
It was March 2018 when James Klug and his family watched their home burn down. In less than an hour, they went from sleeping peacefully to watching nearly everything they owned turn to ash. “That was hard,” says Klug. “In a fire, it’s the things you can’t replace that are […]
By Robin McCormick
West End Correspondent
West End Correspondent
Last Friday, August 25, Weechi-it-te-win, Gizhewaadiziwin and the Health Access Centre joined together to provide a Family Fun Day. This was a celebration for families to share a fun and enjoyable day before the start of the school season. The turn out was amazing as over 500 people of all […]
By Pam Wright
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Second chances. That’s the theme behind a unique provincial program aimed at bringing Ontarians with criminal records and those on social assistance into the labour force. Minister of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development Monte McNaughton made the announcement in Dresden Friday, pledging an additional $160 million to help 100,000 […]
By Yuriy Umansky
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
New Canadian Media
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
New Canadian Media
When he first arrived in Canada from Ukraine last December, 19-year-old Ivan was faced with the choice of getting a work permit or applying to study here. Like many of the roughly 200,000 Ukrainians who have come here under the Canada-Ukraine authorization for emergency travel (CUAET) scheme, his main priority […]
Staff
The Ontario government is providing $8.7 million through the Indigenous Supportive Housing Program (ISHP) to help create 58 transitional housing units for youth in Thunder Bay. The new three-storey building, managed by the Thunder Bay Indigenous Friendship Centre, has a total of 58 units and will offer transitional housing units […]
By Dave Baxter, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Winnipeg Sun
Winnipeg Sun
Amnesty International has joined a growing list of organizations calling on Premier Heather Stefanson to change course on her decision not to offer assistance to get the Prairie Green Landfill searched for the remains of two Indigenous women, and the human rights organization is calling the province’s current inaction on […]
By Sandi Krasowski, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The Chronicle-Journal
The Chronicle-Journal
The organizing committee for the 2024 Ontario Winter Games is seeking “expressions of interest” from companies that may be able to provide products and services for the February event. Matthew Lawrence, the event co-ordinator, says Thunder Bay is expecting 2,800 participants to arrive who will come in two cohorts. The […]
