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Posted: Apr 14, 2021 8:00 AM ET | Last Updated: April 14 These buckets of smelt were caught by South Gillies resident Mark Deans, in Thunder Bay's Current River. (submitted by Mark Deans) The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) wants your smelt. Well, at least some of them. The OMNRF is seeking smelt from the Canadian side of Lake Superior for a new study, to look at the presence of 'forever chemicals' or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, known as PFAS chemicals. PFAS chemicals are man-made substances, used in consumer and industrial products, They do not break dow...

Article content In Conversation aims to create connections with the natural world. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Writers festival offers online conversation Back to video “Creating connections with our natural world through the arts is more important than ever after these many months of living with uncertainty, stress and sorrow,” Janet Joy Wilson, artistic director of the festival, says in a release. While participants are not able to come together with writers in the woods, as they have in past years, “we can bond remotely.” The In C...

OUTBURN ONLINE December 30, 2020 PHOTOGRAPHS BY HANNAH VERBEUREN The past year has presented its share of challenges, and it’s been difficult to avoid a mounting sense of dread. Whatever your circumstances might be, the best form of cold comfort has arrived with Scarcity, the debut album from longtime Napalm Death guitarist Mitch Harris and Megadeth/Cadaver/ex-Soilwork drummer Dirk Verbeuren’s new project Brave the Cold. If Prince once exhorted us to party as if the world was going to end, Scarcity allows us to imagine a grim future materializing into the present right before our ver...

Backroads Bill: The hunt for enormous glacial potholes in Northern Ontario More than ten years ago, “Backroads” Bill Steer heard about a collection of unique potholes in the area, and he set out to find them. Social Sharing CBC News · Posted: Jan 06, 2021 5:27 PM ET | Last Updated: January 6 Backroads Bill was on the hunt for more than 10 years for this particular pothole, only hinted at in literature from the area.(Supplied by Bill Steer)

Article content Jay Aspin was acclaimed as chairman for the Near North District School Board and John Cochrane as vice-chairman during Tuesday’s annual board organizational meeting. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. It will be Aspin’s third term at the helm of the school board. Rob Learn said he nominated Aspin as chairman because he did a “remarkable” job and kept the agenda moving. “I thought about this today. It struck me how far this board has moved from putting a director in place, 3:2 school consultation, the board responding to repo...