Author Archives: Randy Thoms

It is still taking time for cross-border travel to recover from the pandemic. Statistics Canada says there were year-over-year increases in both Canadian and American travel last November, but the num...

A sizable drug bust for OPP in Fort Frances. Unspecified quantities of cocaine, crack cocaine, oxycodone, fentanyl, and morphine were discovered Wednesday night by OPP in a home on Osborne Street. A v...

Packaging Corporation of America ends 2023 with a drop in earnings. Net income for the owners of the mill in International Falls reached $765 million. That is down $19 million over the year before. Th...

An arbitrator is awarding 30,000 provincial government employees a 9.5 per cent wage increase. The increase is spread over three years, dating back to 2022. Wage contracts were reopened last year afte...

A call for a huge hike to the minimum wage. The Ontario Federation of Labour suggests it should be at 20 dollars an hour. President Laura Walton told a pre-budget hearing that Ontario's most vulnerabl...

The Minnesota Department of Transportation is back with its annual 'Name a Snowplow' contest. MnDOT received over 8,000 suggestions in a previous call for possible names. Fifty finalists have been sel...

The Federal Court of Canada says the government's use of the Emergency Act in 2022 was unjustified and violated the Charter of Rights. It was invoked to clear a truckers' protest in Ottawa. In his rul...

There has been a minor earthquake in northwestern Ontario. Earthquake Canada says the tremor struck Monday at 5:08 a.m. Eastern time in a remote area just west of Upsala. It had a magnitude of 1.9. Su...

OPP have laid more charges related to the theft of mail from the post office in Fort Frances last month. Police say a 59-year-old man from LaVallee Township is facing two related charges - possession ...

Dentists could be under pressure with the introduction of the national dental care program. The Ontario Dental Association (ODA) is warning of the need for provincial support as part of a submission t...