The Canadian PressJonas Siegel TORONTO–These were the games, Mike Babcock said, that good teams found a way to win and, indeed, his emerging Toronto Maple Leafs did just that on a record-setting night. Playing the second half of a back-to-back against one of the worst teams in the NHL, the […]
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Nicholas Donaldson Sierra Happy showed off her project, “Mold Growth,” during Robert Moore School’s annual science fair held yesterday in the school’s atrium. Happy tested bread, bananas, strawberries, and cheese, with only the strawberries showing mold over a 12-day period. Other students’ projects showcased a wide array of topics–from hockey […]
The Canadian Press OTTAWA–The House of Commons has passed a Liberal backbencher’s motion calling on federal politicians to condemn Islamophobia. The motion, known as M-103, became a matter of acrimonious debate, with opponents painting it as a slippery slope towards limiting freedom of speech and even bringing in Sharia law. […]
Joey Payeur Belle River Nobles’ assistant captain Andrew Thoms was willing to sacrifice his body to help goalie Patrick Timpany in trying to block this shot by St. Mary’s Crusaders’ captain Anthony Piccolo during the second period of the Nobles’ 3-2 win in a shootout last night in the gold-medal […]
The Associated PressDave Skretta KANSAS CITY, Mo.–Purdue coach Matt Painter stopped short of calling Kansas invincible last night. Not by much. After watching the top-seeded Jayhawks run roughshod over his overmatched Boilermakers in the Midwest Regional semi-finals, Painter was asked whether anybody can stop Kansas–a team that has won its […]
Staff Lisa Penner has at least one more game to play. That’s the only certainty after this morning’s draw at the 2017 Canadian senior women’s curling championship in Fredericton, N.B. The Fort Frances resident plays third for the Northern Ontario rink skipped by Peggy Taylor of Kenora, which rebounded from […]
The Canadian Press OTTAWA–Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will travel to France next month to attend commemorations for the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge. The Canadian assault on German positions at Vimy Ridge began on Monday, April 9, 1917. The Battle of Vimy Ridge lasted four days, ending […]
Staff Five ties and seemingly 500 changes in momentum. But in the end, it took just one shot to bring a painful end to another successful Muskie girls’ hockey season. The eighth-ranked All Saints Titans (Whitby) topped the 11th-seeded Muskies 6-5 yesterday afternoon in the quarter-finals at the OFSAA ‘A/AA’ […]
The Canadian Press WINNIPEG–A Winnipeg woman is recovering in hospital after developing a rare type of strep throat that forced doctors to amputate both her legs and one of her arms. Cari Kirkness, 28, thought she had come down with the ‘flu when she went to the emergency room at […]
It will be cloudy tonight, with an overnight low of minus-two C (28 F). Tomorrow also will be mostly cloudy but mild, with a high of seven (45) and low around minus-three (27). A mix of sun and clouds is forecast for Sunday, along with a high again of seven […]
Staff The second season is calling and the defending champions can’t wait. How I Set Your Mother finished the Fort Frances Women’s Volleyball League’s regular season with a flourish last night, grabbing the maximum six points to finish in first place overall with 109 points. No Diggity, which spent most […]
Joey Payeur The one-night hometown favourites departed with a long-awaited trophy in tow but left behind some indelible memories with local hockey fans. Cody McFarlane had the only goal of a shootout to carry the fourth-ranked Belle River Nobles to a thrilling 3-2 win over the third-seeded St. Mary’s Crusaders […]
