Author Archives: Randy Thoms

Speeding continues to be the number one infraction among motorists in northwestern Ontario. Of the 845 charges laid by provincial police during the Labour Day long weekend, 486 were for speeding. OPP ...

Riverside Health Care says it is lifting visitor restrictions that were imposed at LaVerendrye General Hospital in Fort Frances because of a COVID outbreak. Riverside says that outbreak has now been d...

The Fort Frances Muskies football team is dedicating their year's season in the Winnipeg High School Football League in honour of a long-time coach. Dave Montgomery passed away suddenly last November....

Federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is ready for an election. He is just not saying exactly when that will happen. Singh admits that the ending of the agreement his party had with the governing Liberals ...

A new report says five times more hospital beds planned by the Ford government are needed in Ontario. The Canadian Union of Public Employees' Ontario Council of Hospital Unions says the province faces...

Women are invited to Confederation College on Thursday to learn more about a new Heavy Machinery Equipment Technician program. It will be offered at the Rainy River District campus in Fort Frances lat...

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers has scheduled a series of meetings to update their members on the status of contract talks with Canada Post. A strike vote will be part of those meetings that begi...

Four athletes and two builders are the newest inductees to the Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame. Olympic hockey gold medalist Haley Irwin, Paralympic gold medal winner Robbi Weldon, former NHL...

Premier Doug Ford is defending the decision to close safe injection sites that are close to schools and childcare centres. The decision impacts Park 525 in Thunder Bay, the only site in northwestern O...

The town of Rainy River is on the brink of losing doctors. Two are planning to end their practice at the end of September because of a funding issue related to the clinic. In a letter penned by Dr. Jo...