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VANCOUVER – The lengthy extradition process resumes today for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou as her lawyers fight against her removal from Canada to the United States. The legal team for Meng is gathering evidence in B.C. Supreme Court for an abuse of process claim, alleging RCMP and border officials co-ordinated […]

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FREDERICTON – Closing arguments are underway in the trial of Matthew Raymond, the Fredericton man accused of murder in the shooting deaths of four people in the city two years ago. Crown prosecutors and defence lawyers are delivering their arguments today in the jury trial that has lasted more than […]

(FORT FRANCES, ON) – In the afternoon of Sunday November 15, 2020 members of the Fort Frances Detachment conducted a traffic stop in the 400 block of Scott Street in the Town of Fort Frances, Ontario. As a result of this investigation, a 25 year-old Collingwood Ont. man has been […]

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Nick Wells

Dave McIntosh is in “uncharted territory”: he’s able to hold his newborn son close, but his wife, unconscious in a hospital bed due to complications from COVID-19, cannot. Gill McIntosh, 37, remains in the intensive care unit of a hospital in Abbotsford, B.C., in an induced coma and on a […]

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Ontario is reporting 1,487 new cases of COVID-19 today, and 10 new deaths due to the virus. Health Minister Christine Elliott says 508 cases are in Toronto, 392 in Peel Region and 170 in York Region. The province says it has conducted 33,351 tests since the last daily report. In […]

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Lee Berthiaume

OTTAWA – The Chinese government is firing back at Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations for calling on the UN to investigate whether China’s persecution of ethnic Muslim Uighurs in its Xinjiang province is a genocide. During a news conference in Beijing Monday, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian described […]

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Bingo has returned for those members of the Fort Frances Senior’s Centre who have missed it, with a new location at the Memorial Sports Centre auditorium to allow for proper social distancing. The games start at 1:30 p.m. on Friday afternoons, and those who are interested in playing a few […]

Northwestern Health Unit received a report of one new positive COVID-19 test result in the Dryden / Red Lake region on Saturday. Follow up with the person involved and their contacts has started according to protocol. Anyone who is identified as a contact for this case will be contacted directly. […]