By Andrew Flynn
Editor-in-Chief
aflynn@fortfrances.com

In an editorial yesterday, I indicated that after weeks of trying, we had failed to get any response from Canadian Tire about what’s going on with the Fort Frances store that was closed due to a fire on Dec. 18, 2025. As fate would have it, the Times received a […]

By Andrew Flynn
Editor in Chief
aflynn@fortfrances.com

It’s been nearly a month since the Canadian Tire store was temporarily put out of action by a devastating fire and it’s still a pretty big topic of conversation between Fort Franciscans. What we really want to know is, when’s it going to reopen? It’s our job at the Times […]

By Liam Oliver Neilson
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
lneilson@fortfrances.com

My name is Liam Oliver Neilson. I’m a newcomer to your community, recently hired as a staff writer and reporter at your local newspaper, the Fort Frances Times. I was born and raised in one of Canada’s most southern municipalities, Windsor, Ont. I lived there until I was recruited into […]

By Andrew Flynn
General Manager and Editor in Chief
aflynn@fortfrances.com

Having joined the staff of the Times in late August and moved with my family to Fort Frances at the end of October, it’s high time I introduced myself to you, our readers, as the paper’s new general manager. Stepping into the role of GM and editor-in-chief has been both […]

By Deb Ewald
Rainy River Mayor
Special to the Times

On behalf of myself and Council I would like to extend Warm Wishes and Holiday Greetings to everyone in the Rainy River District. As 2025 draws to a close, I look back on the Town’s achievements over this past year and they have been many. The building of the new […]

By Andrew Hallikas
Fort Frances Mayor
Special to the Times

It’s been a busy year but a good year. The purpose of the municipality is to provide services to residents that make the community a better place to work, live, and play. I always like to start my annual summation with a comment on this. As usual our Town employees […]

‘Bram Stoker’s Dracula’ feels like a fever dream. I’m sure I’m not the first person to write that out. I can imagine several critics who first went to see Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 adaptation of the classic vampire novel wrote something similar in their notebooks as the film played for […]

By Megan Walchuk
Originally published May 8, 2024

(Editor’s note: The Fort Frances Times has lost one of its foundational supporters, benefactors and cheerleaders. Del Cumming passed away last Thursday evening, one week shy of her 99th Birthday. We originally ran this piece for Mother’s Day in 2024, celebrating the “Office Mom” so many staff and visitors to […]

Well, it’s been a slice. Every year it feels like summer is over just a little bit faster than the year before. I’m pretty sure just a few weeks ago it was June, when the days were finally warm and the nights were comfortable enough to enjoy outside. It felt […]

This Canada Day, I missed my friend. Well, maybe “friend” is the wrong term. Let me explain. There’s a word that’s been going around lately. The word is “parasocial,” a term that refers to the one-sided, non-reciprocal relationships we as members of the public tend to strike up with celebrities […]

When is the last time you’ve seen nearly a hundred kids lining the waterfront in Fort Frances, lost in the joy of fishing and dreams landing “the big one”? If you were out and about this past Saturday, you might have, but if you weren’t and missed out on it, […]