Author Archives: Randy Thoms

Tax cuts, housing and U.S. relations highlighted the first full day of campaigning in the federal election. Liberal leader Mark Carney used a stop in Gander to talk about Canada-U.S. relations. He hig...

Liberal Members of Provincial Parliament have been given their responsibilities by leader Bonnie Crombie. Crombie assigned multiple portfolios to her 14-member caucus. Veteran MPP John Fraser will ser...

A petition calls for the Town of Fort Frances to remove American flags from town-owned facilities. The petition has been on change.org since the beginning of March and comes amidst continued remarks f...

The Canadian Union of Public Employees says residents can expect reduced service at the Fort Frances Public Library and Technology Centre. The union representing library workers is sounding an alarm b...

Most parents are giving the Northwest Catholic District School Board good marks. Parents whose children attend the board's schools were surveyed last month. The board uses the findings from the commun...

The season has ended for the Fort Frances Muskies hockey teams. The boys and girls teams wrapped up round-robin play on Wednesday morning at the all-Ontario high school hockey championships in Sudbury...

Premier Doug Ford has named 37 MPPs to cabinet positions. They were sworn into office at a ceremony held at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto on Wednesday. All but one of the members were not in cab...

Federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre wants to unlock the potential of the Ring of Fire mining area. He says within six months of becoming Prime Minister, he will approve all federal permits to...

Fort Frances could be home to the next Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) unit in northwestern Ontario. Riverside Health Care says it will kick off a major fundraising campaign at the end of the month f...

A Fort Frances hockey coach is the latest to be assessed a penalty for discrimination. A gross misconduct penalty was issued during the first period of the under-13 final of Hockey Northwestern Ontari...