Author Archives: Randy Thoms

Ontario's NDP wants the time a doctor devotes to paperwork reduced. According to the Ontario Medical Association, doctors are spending 19 hours a week buried in paperwork. NDP leader Marit Stiles says...

The Northwest Catholic District School Board has identified almost $6.2 million in school improvements for the next five years. Much of the spending proposes to take place in the first two years of th...

Ontario Liberals want to see more children take part in sports and other extracurricular activities. They have put forward a Private Member's Bill proposing a $1,000 tax credit on registration fees an...

Ontario's Liberal leader is ruling out a provincial carbon tax program if she is elected the next premier, but she's not saying if she supports the federal one. Bonnie Crombie is forming a task force ...

Taxes in Fort Frances are going up almost 6 per cent. Town council approved the operating budget Monday at a special meeting A majority of homeowners will pay an extra $144 or less if their property a...

The federal government has begun to study a proposal to create an alert system for missing Indigenous women and girls. It is being called the Red Dress Alert Manitoba MP Leah Ghazan put forward the id...

Ontario Liberals are taking a page out of the Ford government's housing affordability task force with a new housing proposal. It is calling for the construction of four-plexes. The task force recommen...

Survivors of residential schools in northwestern Ontario are returning to the sites of those former schools. Grand Council Treaty Three's Indian Residential School Department is organizing reunions fo...

A respiratory outbreak at Rainycrest Long Term Care has been expanded to another section of the Fort Frances home. Riverside Health Care says the outbreak is now impacting the home's West Wing. It was...

Future funding of the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund appears to be secure. It now has a budget of $100 million to issue to projects around the region. Northern Development Minister and chair of the fu...