Union leaders representing hospital workers are calling on the Ontario Hospital Association to withdraw its request for a 20 percent wage rollback after revealing management in Toronto area hospitals received wage increases as high as 15 percent over the past two years. Instead, they’re asking the province for a 10 […]
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In the past few years, much has been reported in the media about how all computers will “crash” with the dawn of the year 2000. In fact, the problem even has a name–Y2K. In a computerized world, one might think this could spell disaster for civilization as we know it. […]
Many families with young children stopped by the Fort Frances Toy Lending Resource Centre last Saturday morning to celebrate “National Family Week” like it was the Stone Age. Oct. 6-10 was officially “National Family Week,” a time to celebrate family by holding activities that served to bring members closer together. […]
Confusion over the education portion raised the most questions on the 1998 tax bills, treasurer Carol Busch and tax collector Ed Katona told town council last night. While in past years the school board set the levy, this year the province standardized it at .46 percent of current market value […]
A lit cigarette in the hand of someone sleeping. A wok fire out of control in the kitchen. A coffee maker left “on” while the family is at school and work. Every year, these three leading causes of fires are responsible for the better part of 67,000 blazes in Canadian […]
Results from a weekend seat belt count by the Rainy River Valley Safety Coalition, together with a 24-hour “Operation Impact” blitz campaign by the local OPP, indicate most drivers and their passengers are complying with the law. While final statistics haven’t been tallied yet on the seat belt count, RRVSC […]
Chances are when my child used a car seat 13 years ago, it would not have protected her from serious injury in a car accident. Although I didn’t know it then, I most likely had not installed it correctly. Luckily, I never had to find out the hard way how […]
After 14 months of hard work, some members of the Boreal West Round Table are fuming over the lack of response they received from the province on a final report they didn’t see–even though it was a report they supposedly endorsed. Fort Frances resident Jack Hedman, who sits on the […]
Creating opportunity and pulling Ontarians together is something the Liberals are pledging to do if elected in the next provincial election. But with a 38 percent recognition rate, the party is working first to raise the profile of leader Dalton McGuinty, who was here Saturday to speak to about 50 […]
It’s been two years since parents and educators were mandated to elect representatives to individual school councils. But now that it’s time to elect new members, many school councils are finding this round of elections has been much like the first one–low in nominees. Mary Lynne Bondett, acting principal and […]
In an effort to bring home the message of how youth can be spiritual role models, local teens Shaunna Cuthbertson and Amanda Cotterill, together with a delegation of 13 others from Thunder Bay, will have their “day” in church when they lead services at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church here Oct. […]
With names like “Cactus Jack’s Death Valley Chili,” “Yer’ In Trouble Chili,” and “Labourin’ To Eat It Chili” about to be dished out at the third-annual “Great Chili Cookoff” on Friday, chances are there will be no shortage of adventures in taste. Slated to kickoff at 11 a.m. under the […]
