Local News from Across the Rainy River District
NESKANTAGA — The school-aged children of Neskantaga are a long way from their place of learning, but classes are about to commence for them. The Treaty 9 nation’s chief and council have made arrangements for JK-8 classes to start on Monday, Sept. 14, at the Toronto hotel they are staying […]
DRYDEN – Recovery Day is coming back to the region this month to spark conversation in healing and recovery as the Empower 2 Recover Foundation stops in Dryden, Kenora and Fort Frances. Travelling across Canada each year since 2022, Empower 2 Recover puts on live trauma, mental health and addiction […]
THUNDER BAY – The Fort William Gardens was filled with nearly 6,000 people Wednesday as the massive two-day Central Canada Resource Expo, or CEN-CAN returned for a fifth year. Growing larger each year, the tradeshow is a place where “suppliers, distributors (and) manufacturers can meet face to face with the […]
Five days before Ontario’s new, weaker species-at-risk law took effect in March, members of the Environment Ministry team tasked with enforcing it were thinking about bats. In particular, a delayed permit that was keeping a developer from clearing trees before at-risk bats returned to them for the season. The permit […]
A new indoor riding arena near Kenora will provide year-round access to equine programming centred on connection, confidence and healing. The Ontario government is providing $1.51 million to build a new arena at the Youth and Family Wellness Camp, which is owned and operated by the Kenora Chiefs Advisory. The […]
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 […]
