The Canadian PressKelsey Patterson MONTREAL—Alouettes’ coach Jim Popp was at a loss for words when describing the late interception that eventually cost Montreal the football game. Montreal lost 19-14 against the Ottawa Redblacks last night after quarterback Kevin Glenn’s easy interception ended the Alouettes’ comeback attempt. With Ottawa leading 16-14 […]
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The Associated PressDave Campbell MINNEAPOLIS—Never mind Jared Goff’s status as the first overall pick in the draft for L.A. For now, with a lot left to learn, he’s the third-stringer. Goff’s first start of the pre-season for the Rams featured two turnovers and one touchdown as the Minnesota reserve running […]
Press Release Starting today (Sept. 2), customers in Western Canada will save on their purchases of thousands of lower everyday prices up and down the aisles in their local Safeway and Sobeys stores. This new initiative is the next step in Sobeys Inc.’s mission that launched in 2013 to provide […]
Duane Hicks Caroline Goulding is settling in as the new CEO at the Fort Frances Public Library Technology Centre. Goulding said she’s impressed by the library and its programming, as well as the friendliness of the community. She replaced Alicia Subnaik Kilgour, who now is CEO of the Niagara Falls […]
From the MNRF One new fire was reported in the Northwest Region by the late afternoon yesterday. Fort Frances Fire #20, located about 55 km north-northeast of Fort Frances, was listed as “not under control” at 0.2 hectares in size. The forest fire hazard forecast is “moderate” to “high” in […]
Staff Matt Mason is building himself a good reputation right from the start. Mason netted a hat trick to lead Team Black to a 9-3 win over Team White as the Fort Frances Lakers opened training camp last night at the Ice For Kids Arena. The three-time defending SIJHL champs […]
The Canadian PressAllison Jones TORONTO—Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives won a provincial byelection yesterday in northeast Toronto, but it may have come at a cost. City councillor Raymond Cho won the Scarborough-Rouge River riding—defeating the Liberals in a seat they have held since it was created in 1999. It’s the third-straight byelection […]
Staff Cole Tymkin has put himself in position to make a big step in his hockey career. The 17-year-old Fort Frances resident, a native of Rainy River, yesterday made it through the initial roster cutdown to 25 players for the defending Memorial Cup champion London Knights (OHL). Tymkin, who captured […]
By Ben Nuckols And Collin Binkley The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Georgetown University will give preference in admissions to the descendants of slaves owned by the Maryland Jesuits as part of its effort to atone for profiting from the sale of enslaved people, the president of the prominent Jesuit university […]
By Esther Htusan The Associated Press PINLEBU, Myanmar — The hills of northern Myanmar’s Sagaing region were so legendarily thick with forests that in the days of kings, condemned criminals were ordered into the woods as a death sentence. Today illegal logging has left vast swaths of bare patches, with […]
By Josh Lederman THE ASSOCIATED PRESS President Barack Obama plunked down on a speck of coral reef in the middle of the Pacific Ocean on Thursday and gazed out at the turquoise waters of the marine monument he’s widened to become the largest in the world. Hundreds of albatrosses and […]
By Youkyung Lee :The Associated Press SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — Samsung Electronics recalled all of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones on Friday after finding batteries of some of the flagship gadgets exploded or caught fire. Samsung’s Note 7s are being pulled from shelves in 10 countries, including South Korea […]
