Today, Greg Rickford, Minister of Indigenous Affairs, issued the following statement marking Indigenous Veterans Day: “Today, we honour the bravery, service, and sacrifice of First Nation, Inuit and Métis veterans who served during the First World War, Second World War, Korean War, and subsequent Canadian Forces’ actions around the globe. […]
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By Scott Fawcett
Special to the Times
Special to the Times
Friday in Dryden the Fort Frances Muskies upset the previously unbeaten Dryden Eagles 14 – 3 to win the NORWASSA football championship. The Muskie defense shut down Dryden’s high flying passing attack throughout the game. The Eagles scored a single on the opening kickoff. In the second quarter and took […]
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OTTAWA – Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh led his caucus in marking the sacrifices of Indigenous veterans this morning, as well as the discrimination they faced after returning from war. Singh and his members of Parliament were at the National Aboriginal Veterans Monument in downtown Ottawa, where they laid a […]
By James McCarten
THE CANADIAN PRESS
THE CANADIAN PRESS
WASHINGTON – For the first time in nearly 20 months, non-essential traffic is once again moving in both directions across the Canada-U.S. land border. Shortly after midnight, Customs and Border Protection agents began letting fully vaccinated vacationers, visitors and day-trippers drive into the United States for the first time since […]
The family of Gladys Florence Kerr wishes to announce her peaceful passing on November 3, 2021, at Rainycrest Home for the Aged, Fort Frances, Ont. Full obituary to follow.
By Emma Tranter
THE CANADIAN PRESS
THE CANADIAN PRESS
IQALUIT, Nunavut – The hunters and trappers association in the community closest to an iron ore mine on the northern tip of Baffin Island doesn’t want to see the mine expand its operations, saying the effects have already been palpable. Baffinland Iron Mines Corp. is seeking to expand its Mary […]
By Stephanie Taylor
THE CANADIAN PRESS
THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA – Newly named Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller says he wants to get to the bottom of why Ottawa abandoned its appeal of a ruling releasing the Catholic Church from its settlement obligations to residential school survivors. “I am as puzzled as everyone,” he told The Canadian Press in […]
By Lee Keath
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KABUL (AP) – In Kabul’s main children’s hospital, 2 1/2-year-old Guldana is sitting up in her bed, but she’s too exhausted to even open her eyes. Her tiny body is wrapped in a blanket, only her emaciated face showing. She’s one of a growing number of near-starving children who are […]
By Monika Scislowska And Vanessa Gera
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WARSAW, Poland (AP) – Poland has increased security at its border with Belarus, on the European Union’s eastern border, after a large group of migrants in Belarus appeared to be congregating by the frontier seeking to try to force their way into Poland, officials said Monday. Video footage from Belarusian […]
By Ralph D. Russo
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The NCAA on Monday set the stage for a dramatic restructuring of college sports that will give each of its three divisions the power to govern itself. The nation’s biggest and most influential governing body in college athletics released a draft of an 18 1/2-page constitution, cut down from 43 […]
By Graham Dunbar
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
GENEVA (AP) – Amid a bitter divide with athletes over the removal of horse riding from the Olympic event of modern pentathlon, the sport’s governing body on Monday invited them to talks this week. The Monaco-based UIPM said it would host a video call Friday to consult athletes on which […]
