Chippewa Zoo animals at their best in the winter cold
Animals at the Chippewa Wildlife Exhibit look their best when the public can't see them. Visitors to the local zoo are used to straining to find wolves coyotes or caribou on a hot day as the animals...
View ArticleWar and Deception exhibit to debut at Thunder Bay Art Gallery
A city artist is debuting his latest exhibition at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery this winter, titled War and Deception. Sam Shahsahabi is an assistant professor of Visual Arts at Lakehead University....
View ArticleU.S. connection
Lakehead University is strengthening its academic ties to the U.S. with a new partnership. On Friday LU president Brian Stevenson signed a memorandum of understanding with Fulbright Canada, a...
View ArticleLearning new skills
You don’t need to have a pair of skates on your feet to play a game of ice hockey. That’s where a sledge and two specialized sticks come in handy. The sport of sledge hockey, where participants each...
View ArticleWinter destination
It has only taken a couple of years for the waterfront to become a go-to location for families searching for winter adventures. Between the outdoor skating rink and the newly constructed snow hill in...
View ArticleJoining the registry
Heather Madussi said deciding to join the country’s stem cell registry donor base wasn’t a difficult choice to make. “I actually have a friend whose cousin needs bone marrow. So she had posted it on...
View ArticleVision plan
The city is asking what the public thinks a stretch of road should look like over the coming years. A full Mariner's Hall was busy Wednesday night looking over an eight kilometre stretch of road, from...
View ArticleEaster Seals Kids gear up for 11th Snowarama
Every year Zachary Pyloychuk looks forward to seeing snowmobiles roar down trails while helping enrich the lives of his peers. This marks the seventh year Pyloychuk has served as the ambassador for...
View ArticleGlobal search
The city is looking globally for answers to the region's recruitment and retention of health professionals. The Northern Ontario School of Medicine hosted the Canadian Recruit and Retain Conference at...
View ArticleBack for round two
The overwhelming popularity of the first annual Dirty Girls Mud Run last year caught organizer Sharla Brown by surprise. This year, now knowing what to expect, she is prepared to make the event even...
View ArticleSharing experiences
Bill Heibein considers himself one of the lucky ones. Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2000, the Thunder Bay man was put in touch with the local Alzheimer's society immediately and prescribed the...
View ArticleMaking a difference
When Dr. Annabella Zawada went away for medical school she never expected to return to Northwestern Ontario. Yet the Thunder Bay-born physician has set up practice and her life in Terrace Bay. For her...
View ArticleToolkit aims to improve palliative care system
Working with patients who are in their final stages of life isn’t easy. It can be difficult acknowledging to both patients and family members that someone is approaching the end and then trying to...
View ArticleShipping celebration
Shipping has been a backbone of the Thunder Bay economy for the better part of a century. The industry today still employs about 1,800 people in the city and on Tuesday its past, present and future...
View ArticleDriven to Quit
When it comes to quitting smoking, some people need an incentive to help overcome the addiction. That's where the Drive to Quit contest comes into play, said tobacco treatment specialist Jim Morris,...
View ArticleEx smoker buys car with money saved from butting out
Every time Gary Ferguson thinks about smoking, he remembers how much he's gained since quitting. Ferguson, a project consultant at Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, was a heavy smoker. He'd...
View ArticleFox museum
The Terry Fox monument is an important part of the national hero's legacy but it's no museum nor could it be, says the city's tourism manager. The Fox family has more than 150,000 items collected...
View Article‘A wonderful feeling’
Adam Kolisnyk says his dad’s a great guy. It’s hard to argue that after Ted Kolisnyk handed his son the keys to a brand new 2014 Acura ILX, the top prize in this year’s Save a Heart Car Raffle. The...
View ArticleCulinary tourism course draws crowd
A course on culinary tourism drew a crowd at Confederation College Friday. Experts from the Ontario Culinary Tourism Alliance were teaching locals how to bring in more visitors by using fine dining...
View ArticleJoining forces
When Mark Henderson was a budding young cardiologist, he learned his craft the old-fashioned way: on the job. It was trial-by-fire, said the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre’s...
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