I’m not sure there are many tasks I find more gratifying than making maple syrup. It’s a bit like magic. It’s called sugarin’ season by some but whatever you call it, the act of collecting sap and putting it on my wood stove makes me happy. I have a gargantuan […]
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The Bassmaster Elite Series season continues this week in South Carolina at Lake Hartwell. Hartwell is a large reservoir with plenty of deep, clear water and a good population of spotted and largemouth bass. With the continued winter weather at home I will say it’s nice to be back in […]
April 1st! This is a busy month. Many farmers will be busy with calving and preparing for the spring land work. Equipment will be getting the tune up it needs, fertilizer will be spread, and seed will be planted soon in hopes of a great season ahead. Optimism is at […]
Ken Kellar Oliver Urieta and Malcolm Daley of the Rainy River Association of Professional Paramedics gave the Tween Club at the Fort Frances Public Library a demonstration of their ambulance–and its siren–yesterday afternoon. The two paramedics were on hand to allow the Tween Club to see some of their equipment […]
The Associated Press COPENHAGEN–There’s no escape from the long arm of the law in Sweden. Not even sitting naked in a sauna. Police spokewoman Carina Skagerlind says an off-duty police officer found himself sitting in the same sauna in Rinkeby, a Stockholm suburb, as a fugitive who had dodged a […]
The Canadian PressShawn JeffordsArmina Ligaya Customers lined up at Ontario’s first brick-and-mortar cannabis stores yesterday, but fewer than half of the province’s government-licensed outlets were ready to open. The Progressive Conservative government had planned to have 25 private stores launch on April 1, but some were still working through a […]
Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low of minus-9 C (16 F). Tomorrow will partly sunny and cooler. Expect a high of minus-one (30) and a low of minus-11 (12). Thursday will be mostly cloudy but not as cold, with a high of five (41) and a low of […]
The Associated PressDarlene Superville WASHINGTON–Barbara Bush didn’t bite her tongue in recent years when it came to Donald Trump: She just didn’t like him. But a new biography of the former first lady finds that her disdain for the Republican president, who transformed the party her own family had embodied […]
The Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Russia–Officials in Russia say an explosion inside an elite military academy in the country’s second-largest city has wounded four people. An unidentified explosive device went off early this afternoon inside the prestigious Mozhaisky Academy in St. Petersburg, which trains officers for the army’s missile defence […]
The Canadian Press NIPAWIN, Sask.–Kelsey Fiddler says every time she looks at her smiling baby’s face she feels stronger. It’s a gift, she said, from the Humboldt Broncos defenceman she named her daughter after. Fiddler, who is from the Red Earth Cree Nation in Saskatchewan, was pregnant and travelling with […]
The Canadian Press TORONTO–Ontario’s financial watchdog says a planned minimum wage increase scrapped by the Tory government would have benefited workers more than a tax credit brought in to replace it. Financial Accountability Officer Peter Weltman said in a report today that the tax credit will benefit only 38 percent […]
The Canadian PressNeil Davidson TORONTO–After 24 scoreless innings by their starters, the Blue Jays ran out of arms and ammo yesterday. Sean Reid-Foley, summoned from Triple-A Buffalo to step in for the injured Clayton Richard, lasted just two innings as the Baltimore Orioles jumped into an early 5-0 lead. David […]
