Campbell outlines her priorities at Queen's Park

She was elected less than 24 hours ago, but Sarah Campbell says she already knows what her priorities will be once she heads to Queen's Park.

Campbell won 50 percent of the vote in the Kenora-Rainy River last night and says she wants to continue some of the work she was doing at the constituency office.

Campbell won over 24 hundred votes than her nearest rival, Rod McKay of the Conservatives.

Police Arrest two in routine traffic stop

The OPP's fall seatbelt campaign is already paying dividends.

Police say they stopped a vehicle in Kenora on Wednesday for a seatbelt violation.

Officers noticed a small amount of marijuana in the vehicle and decided to investigate further.

In all, they seized 2 grams of marihuana, a small quantity of hash oil, $1800.00 in cash and 140 lbs of stolen copper wire.

20 year old Sebastien LaCasse of Quebec has been charged with possession of property obtained by crime

while Mathieu Hebert of Quebec has been charged with possession of property obtained by crime and possession of a narcotic.

Burning Permits cancelled in Eastern Manitoba

Fires are raging in tinder-dry conditions across a wide area of Manitoba.

The Long Lake fire north of Nopiming Provincial Park was 11 kilometres long and close to a kilometre wide by Thursday evening.

Highway 304 has been closed from Bissett to Wallace Lake after the fire jumped the highway.

There were also several other smaller fires in the region.

Burning permits have been cancelled in eastern Manitoba.

Bronco Court Sport Teams Split with Fort Frances

Beaver's Brae's court sport teams are starting to round into shape.

The Broncos split their games against Fort Frances yesterday.

In girls basketball, the Beaver Brae senior squad needed overtime to beat the Muskies 22-20.

It was close for the junior girls as well, but lost 31-28 to Fort.

In Boys volleyball, the Broncos junior boys needed five sets to get by the Muskies, while the Senior boys lost three sets to two.

Thunder Bay Atikokan

Thunder Bay Atikokan is going Liberal again with Bill Mauro winning a nailbiter over the NDP's Mary Kozorys. Liberal MPP Bill Mauro is back for his third term and says he's going to make some changes this time around.

Former Lakehead University President Fred Gilbert is happy with his campaign even though he finished third.

Election Results

Latest Results from Kenora-Rainy River


Sarah Campbell NDP 10,752 or 49.22%

Rod McKay Conservative 8,314 or 38.06%

Anthony Leek Liberals 2,173 or 9.95%

Jo Jo Holiday Green Party 385 or 1.76%

Charmaine Romaniuk Northern Heritage Party 219 or 1%



Polls Reported: 195/198 as of 1:42 AM Central

Thunder Bay Superior North

The Red Flag of the Liberal Party is still flying high in Thunder Bay Superior North. Cabinet Minister Michael Gravelle took the riding for a 4th term beating the NDP's Steve Mantis who finished 2nd and the PC's Anthony Leblanc who came in third. Mantis says despite the loss he's happy.

Leblanc says he's going to build on what he was able to accomplish in this campaign and is looking forward to his next chance.


Mantis says he isn't sure if he will run again but does want to continue to work to better the riding in some capacity.

Votes Tally

Just short of 22-thousand people cast their ballots in the Kenora-Rainy River riding, the fewest since the riding was formed in 1999.
That's 48 per cent of all eligible voters in the riding.