The Canadian PressColin Perkel The Canadian government is promising more than $10 million to build new homes, repair others, and put portables in place for a remote indigenous community in Northern Ontario where sub-standard, mould-infested housing has sparked a health crisis, according to a framework agreement signed Thursday. The interim […]
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The Canadian Press OTTAWA–Canadians could hear this week from Jody Wilson-Raybould about whether the former attorney general believes she faced inappropriate pressure from the prime minister’s office to halt a criminal prosecution of Quebec-based engineering giant SNC-Lavalin. Wilson-Raybould widely is expected to testify as early as tomorrow at a Commons’ […]
Staff The Muskie senior girls’ volleyball team had the “Fish Tank” rocking over the weekend. The black-and-gold swept the best-of-three NWOSSAA championship against the St. Ignatius Falcons (Thunder Bay) held at Fort High and now advance to the all-Ontarios slated for March 4-6 in Amherstburg. Fort High beat the Falcons […]
Staff Alex Gartzke netted a hat trick to pace the Muskie girls’ hockey team to a 6-4 win over the St. Thomas Aquinas Saints in Kenora yesterday afternoon in the third-and-deciding game of the NorWOSSA semi-final series. The third-ranked Muskies now advance to the best-of-three NorWOSSA final against the top-ranked […]
The Associated PressJake Coyle LOS ANGELES–The segregation-era road-trip drama “Green Book” was crowned best picture at the 91st Academy Awards, delighting those who see the film as a feel-good throwback but disappointing others who ridicule it as an outdated inversion of “Driving Miss Daisy.” In a year when Hollywood could […]
of Ryan Stelter/Kenora Daily Miner and News Jake Barker and Peyton Avis made their way to Muskie goalie Darian Klem to celebrate their squad’s 5-4 win over the host St. Thomas Aquinas Saints in Kenora in the second game of their NorWOSSA semi-final Thursday afternoon. The top-ranked Muskies swept the […]
Jamie Mountain Jill Calder, left, and Tatum Glowasky (#22) did their best to clear the front of crease of Muskie goalie Jersey Masson during the second period of Fort High’s 2-1 loss to the St. Thomas Aquinas Saints in the second game of their NorWOSSA semi-final series here Thursday night.
The Associated PressJose M. Romero GLENDALE, Ariz.–The Arizona Coyotes watched the most prolific scorer and longest-tenured player in franchise history get his number retired, then took to the ice and made their former captain proud. Lawson Crouse scored the go-ahead goal in the second period as Arizona beat the Winnipeg […]
The Canadian PressLori Ewing TORONTO–Sitting hunched over at his locker, Kyle Lowry scanned the scoring report from last night’s loss, then brusquely tossed it aside. The game definitely was one to forget. Terrence Ross, who once famously scored 51 points in a Raptors’ jersey, poured in 28 points to lead […]
It will be clear but frigid tonight, with an overnight low of minus-27 C (16 below zero F) and west-southwest winds gusting up to 15 km/h. Tomorrow will see a mix of sun and clouds, with a high of minus-13 (eight) and low around minus-20 for below). Look for southwest […]
Staff Town council will hear presentations from the Fort Frances Public Library Technology Centre and NCDS at its regular meeting tonight. Library CEO Caroline Goulding will present council with a report entitled, “The Value of Your Library–Social and Economic Return on Your Investment.” NCDS executive director Nicke Paddock then will […]
The Canadian Press OTTAWA–Jagmeet Singh’s political fate–and the fortunes of the New Democratic Party as a whole–are in the hands of voters today in a British Columbia riding. The NDP leader is running for a seat in the House of Commons in Burnaby South, one of three federal ridings holding […]
