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With an aging population and a high incidence of chronic disease, the need for palliative care in First Nations communities is becoming increasingly crucial. “End-of-life care in First Nations communities is a huge issue,” said Holly Prince.

Some local elementary school students have exchanged pens and paper for rolling pins and saw blades. The Thunder Bay Catholic District School Board implemented its culinary arts and wood shop programs to Bishop E.Q.

Police arrested three women and a man on Saturday after searching a home and finding Oxycodone and cocaine. Officers with the Thunder Bay Police Service searched a home in the 500 block of McTavish Street Saturday.

Green energy is the future for Ontario, says Mayor Lynn Peterson, a staunch backer of Horizon Wind’s controversial $75-million wind-farm project, slated for the Nor’Wester Mountain Range.

Police confirmed that the teen victim of a homicide last week was killed by blunt force trauma. Thunder Bay Police Service officials released the results of a post-mortem examination Monday of a 16-year-old girl killed near the County Park area.

The Thunder Bay and District Labour Council is backing Keith Hobbs for mayor. The union-based organization on Saturday threw its support behind a total of 24 candidates running in the Oct.

A visit from the Anglican archbishop had the annual police memorial parade reroute its march to Wesley United Church on Sunday.

A visit to Thunder Bay Art Gallery these days brings one quite literally face to face with brightness, lightness and considerable darkness too, as aren’t these what make up near everything in the natural, spiritual and human worlds? Three new exhibit

Five birds on a wire: hawks and falcons, or ravens come to mind; also thrushes, nightingales and swallows, possibly swans.

It took four years and a lot of hard work but Ben Johnson finally broke his personal record for the heaviest pumpkin. Johnson, a local grower, won the heaviest pumpkin grown at the fourth annual Pumpkinfest at the Murillo fair grounds on Saturday.