The Fort Frances Muskies Football team celebrated after a well-deserved 49-6 win over West Kildonan during the Muskies homecoming game, September 29. The team heads back to Winnipeg for the next two weeks to face off against St. John’s and Kildonan East, before ending regular season play on home soil, […]

By Jan M. Olsen
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) – Denmark’s popular monarch, Queen Margrethe II, has apologized for upsetting members of her family with a decision to strip the royal titles from four of her grandchildren, but has refused to change her mind. Last week, the royal palace of Europe’s oldest royal monarchy announced that […]

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MANILA, Philippines (AP) – Motorcycle-riding gunmen killed a longtime radio commentator in metropolitan Manila in the latest attack on a member of the media in the Philippines, considered one of the world’s most dangerous countries for journalists. Police said Percival Mabasa, 63, was driving his vehicle Monday night when two […]

TOKYO (AP) – A top executive at a major Japanese publisher was charged Tuesday with bribing a former Tokyo Olympics organizing committee member. The charges against Tsuguhiko Kadokawa, a major figure in Japan’s movie and entertainment industry, are the latest in the unfolding corruption scandal related to last year’s Tokyo […]

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Ontario education workers such as librarians, custodians and school administration staff have voted 96.5 per cent in favour of a strike. The Canadian Union of Public Employees announced Monday that more than 80 per cent of its 55,000 education worker members voted and the vast majority supported the bargaining team’s […]

By Matteo Cimellaro
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Canada's National Observer

Two nationwide community groups have joined forces to strengthen opportunities for partnerships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous youth. On Thursday, the National Association of Friendship Centres (NAFC) and BGC Canada (formerly the Boys & Girls Clubs of Canada) signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at advancing reconciliation and committing both organizations […]

By Liam Casey
THE CANADIAN PRESS

The burden of COVID-19 going forward will sit on the shoulders of primary care doctors and nurses if no new variant emerges, but the way that medical care is delivered must be reconsidered, Ontario’s now-defunct science table said Monday in its final bit of advice to the province. The Ontario […]

By Eric Shih
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Thunder Bay Source

There’s hope that a takeover by the social services board in Kenora will lead to the creation of more local childcare spaces in coming months. The Kenora District Services Board will now be administering the five childcare programs previously run by Firefly in Kenora. The programs will be closed on […]

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Ontarians who make minimum wage got a raise this weekend. Starting Saturday, the general minimum wage went up 50 cents to $15.50 per hour — a move announced by the Ford government in April. Students under 18 are now earning $14.60 per hour, up from $14.10, while homeworkers — those […]

By Sharif Hassan
THE CANADIAN PRESS

Randy Guzar remembers being shocked when he saw the name of the street his then-girlfriend lived on two decades ago. The private road in Puslinch Township in southern Ontario was called Swastika Trail, prompting Guzar to wonder why it hadn’t been changed. “I remember vividly thinking, ‘Oh my goodness, you […]

By Morgan Lowrie
THE CANADIAN PRESS

MONTREAL – Quebec’s major party leaders made one final appeal to voters on the eve of Monday’s provincial election as polls continued to show Francois Legault’s party with a more than 20-point lead over his adversaries. A poll on Sunday presented a picture that was relatively unchanged since the beginning […]