As part of a Great Lakes tour, Maude Barlow addressed a concerned and enraged audience on May 17th. Approximately 200 people attended the event which featured introductory remarks by Wally Bannon, Fort William First Nation and presentations by Charlene Rogers, Environment North and Ellen Mortfield, EcoSuperior Environmental Programs. Barlow is the National Chairsperson of The Council of Canadians, a non-partisan [...]

Pathways to Healthy Families: • Activities for-all ages • Health Screenings • Local Supports & Services • Over 75 exhibitors & prize draws • Food vendors • Rural Food Cupboard drive In conjunction with Conmee, Gillies, Neebing, Nolalu, O’Connor and Oliver Paipoonge Contact: NorWest Community Health Centres August 15, 2012 2:00 pm – August 15, 2012 8:00 pm at NorWest [...]

We are what we smell – “Hydrogen sulfide, a lethal gas best known for smelling like rotten eggs, turns out to play key roles in the body – a finding that could lead to new treatment for heart attack victims and others – from Scientific American”. In his talk, Dr. Wang will highlight some most promising and intriguing discoveries in [...]

Continue your celebration of Mom’s Day by taking a cooking class together! Enjoy a wonderful evening out together tasting delicious courses while learning techniques and tricks that will help in the kitchen. This mother-daughter cooking extravaganza will provide an around the world culinary trip from the Bahamas to Italy to Thailand and back home for dessert. The evening includes a [...]

Event Roller Derby Season Opener Date: Saturday, May 12, 2012 Time: Doors open at 7:00 pm Game starts at 7:30 pm Place: Delaney Arena, 300 Legion Track Dr. Thunder Bay’s Babes of Thunder take on the North Star’s Northern Lights from Minneapolis. This is the first of five bouts that the Thunder Bay Roller Derby League has planned this summer. [...]

Norm Foster’s comedy rounds out theatre season. By Kyle Poluyko Magnus Theatre closes out its 40th anniversary season with Canadian playwright Norm Foster’s funny and crowd-pleasing look at the breakdown of love and marriage in The Long Weekend. Max Trueman’s opening one-liner in the production clearly spells out the hilarious tension that is about to play out: “This weekend is [...]

photos by Jim Gehrels story by Michelle McChristie Eighty per cent of sickness and death among children is caused by unsafe water and every 15 seconds a child dies because they do not have access to safe drinking water. For Jim Gehrels these are not abstract statistics, they are the harsh reality of life in developing countries. Through his work [...]

by Kyle Poluyko For its penultimate production of the 40th anniversary season, Magnus Theatre presents 400 Kilometres, a thought-provoking comedy tempered with dramatic moments that delves into the true meaning of family and the complications that permeate the familial existence. The final installment in a trilogy by playwright Drew Hayden Taylor, the remarkable strength of 400 Kilometres is that it [...]

Magnus Theatre’s Celebration of Race-Transcending Love By Kyle Poluyko Photo by Barry Wojciechowski The Syringa Tree, at its heart, is a love story between a privileged white girl and her black nanny in early 1960’s South Africa, the divergent destinies of white and black children, and attempts of adults to cope with unjust society. Authored by playwright Pamela Gien and semi-autobiographical [...]

By Tiffany Jarva Photos by Alastair MacKay The Thunder Bay Art Gallery audience was silent as acclaimed Canadian author Alistair MacLeod, in his soft lilting voice, read from his short story “The Boat,” in amongst the pieces of the touring Sense of Place printmakers exhibition. The award-winning MacLeod, author of two short story collections and the critically acclaimed 1999 novel [...]