Fort Frances Town Council Meeting

At Fort Frances town council yesterday, a local artist was given permission to work to put up a mural in the arena.
The mural, called Timmy's World, was painted by children with Lindsay Hamilton's help.
Town councilor Hallikas is quoted as calling the work a: "fantastic, fasmagorical world!"

Jack Layton State Funeral

The deceased leader of the federal NDP will be given a state funeral.
Jack Layton will be honoured with a sendoff usually reserved for
prime ministers, governors general and cabinet ministers.
A spokesman for Prime Minister Harper says the P-M exercised his
discretion and offered Layton's wife, Olivia Chow, a state funeral, which she accepted.

Potential Provincial College Strike Brewing

Ontario's college support staff union warned Saturday that the beginning of the Ontario college school year is at risk.
More than 8,000 workers who are part of the Ontario Public Services Union have been in new contract talks since June, and the union warns that "there has been no meaningful dialogue from negotiators representing management."
Their last contract is set to expire the day before the start of the school year on August 31st, and OPSEU says that management is "avoiding serious negotiations until the deadline is reached. Both sides are set to return to the negotiating table for a week of talks starting tomorrow.

Conservative Candidate Picked for Fall Election

All the major parties now have their candidates in place for the October
6th provincial election.
The Conservatives are the latest party to select their candidate.
Kenora City Councillor Rod McKay beat out Louis Roussin for the Tory
nomination.
McKay says his biggest job now is getting his name out in the Kenora-Rainy
River Riding.

Jack Layton Dead at 61

The NDP federal leader has died this morning.
Just months after leading his party to unprecedented success in
the federal election campaign, Jack Layton died while fighting cancer.
He died early this morning, surrounded by friends and family.
He was 61.