Those interested in speaking for or against the privatization of Ontario’s public broadcaster will have to travel to Thunder Bay next month to state their views.
And that has Susan Flemming, the local rep on TVO’s Northwest Regional Council, offering to speak for anyone who can’t make it there.
Is the sturgeon population in the Rainy River/Lake of the Woods system strong enough to withstand the removal of 200 immature fish a year?
Minnesota's Department of Natural Resources and the Ministry of Natural Resources here are saying “yes" but the cry from Rainy River First Nations is a resounding "no.”
With the clock ticking towards the deadline of 5 p.m. Friday, more people have filed their nomination papers to be candidates in next month's municipal election.
Here in Fort Frances, seven people already have indicated an intention to seek the six seats up for grabs on town council.
Flood relief efforts in Atikokan got a big financial shot-in-the-arm yesterday thanks to a $10,000 cheque from Videon and Cancom.
“It's really something,” enthused Moreen Cox, a flood disaster relief volunteer.
“This is the biggest donation by far," she noted. "There have been some astronomical amounts of financial loss for a town this size.”
The Northwest Regional Council for TV Ontario has pledged to fight the Harris government's attempts to privatize the public broadcaster.
And the campaign is starting immediately.
Numbers were high Saturday at the last sale of the year by the Rainy River Cattlemen’s Association, with about 1,450 head of cattle moving through the sales yard at Stratton.
Combined with the number of cattle sold at last month’s auction, more than 2,700 head have gone through the sales yard in the past three weeks.
It’s out there. It’s all around us. It’s not something we can easily put a finger on but it’s there just the same.
What is it? “It” is that feeling of community, that sense of spirit, that open neighbourliness that gives a place heart. And sometimes you’ll find the biggest heart in the smallest places.
There was no question that Sleeman native Kenny Trenchard was the big winner at the third-annual Rainy River Valley Giant Pumpkin Festival on Saturday, taking the $1,000 grand prize and the coveted “Golden Hoe” for his 456-pound entry.
The Northwestern Ontario Association of Chambers of Commerce is trying to initiate a study to look at how variables interplay in the Northwestern Ontario economy in an effort to help those doing business here.
Darryl Lewis, the person in charge of community planning for Duluth, Mn., spoke Friday at the “Northern Networks” trade conference here to explain his department’s outlook on tourism.
“We’re a crossroads," he noted of people travelling east and west and north and south en route to destinations. ”And we’re looking to attract them for one or two-night stays.
