Opinion

The bad news for a Flin Flon area resident diagnosed with cancer? That’s obvious. The good news? The community often puts together meat draws and raffles to ease the burden placed on cancer-stricken residents and their families.

If Niki Ashton is to lead the federal NDP, she will need to tiptoe through a minefield of extreme political correctness like no politician before her.

Flin Flon city council is under constant pressure to deliver the biggest bang for the taxpayer buck. This pressure serves property owners well.

Dear Editor, Health care staffing is critical to safe, reliable care. I feel the article “Care home standards raise concerns” ( The Reminder, May 3) wrongfully portrays our health care aides.

The word “concern” appeared 11 times in last week’s Reminder article on the state of long-term care in Flin Flon. And with good reason.

How’s this for misplaced priorities? When you drive into Flin Flon, you pass a taxpayer-funded running track that is hardly ever used; when you need to fly out of Flin Flon for medical reasons, your taxpayer-subsidized escort will no longer be able t

When Hudbay found zinc at Lalor Lake a decade ago, the nearby community of Snow Lake felt like it had struck gold.

How do you define incompetence? Consider this: Spend over $3 million buying buses and upgrading assets for the Saskatchewan Transportation Company (STC) in 2016, and then shutting it down in 2017. That’s right.

During the so-called Great Recession of the late 2000s, several residents remarked that Flin Flon was left basically unscathed by the economic ravages occurring elsewhere in the world. It wasn’t entirely true.

The good news? Left-wingers and right-wingers finally agree on something. The bad news? It’s a policy that makes life less equitable in northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan.