Duane Hicks The drive-thru oil change facility is up at the future site of the Great Canadian Oil Change at King’s Highway (just west of Boston Pizza). The businesses will sit vacant until its utilities (electricity, gas, sewer, and water) are installed in the spring, after which time it will […]
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The Canadian Press MELBOURNE, Australia–Canada’s Milos Raonic and Denis Shapovalov both have advanced to the third round of the Australian Open. The 16th-seeded Raonic either was one or two points from dropping each of the sets he eventually grabbed on the way to edging Switzerland’s Stan Wawrinka 6-7 (4), 7-6 […]
Press Release Members of Branch 26 of the Customs and Immigration Union (CIU), who work for the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) in Northern Ontario, are standing with their American counterparts of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (USCBP), who currently are furloughed. With the U.S. government shutdown, now the […]
Sam Odrowski Early Learning students at St. Francis School worked together to make wellness posters during the school’s “Wellness Day” yesterday. The whole school participated and the event ran all day, with each class cycling through various wellness activities such as yoga, hand drumming, meditation, and medicine teachings. The goal […]
The Canadian PressAllison Jones TORONTO–Ontario is reviewing 82 municipalities–a move that raises the possibility of amalgamations and comes not long after the Progressive Conservative government slashed the size of Toronto’s city council nearly in half. The province said Tuesday that it has tapped two experts to conduct the review of […]
Staff The good times continue to roll for the Muskie court sport teams as all four squads came away with wins against the visiting Dryden Eagles on Tuesday afternoon. Both the junior and senior girls’ volleyball teams improved their NorWOSSA records to a league-best 6-0. The juniors won in four […]
The Canadian PressBob Weber More than half the food produced in Canada is wasted and the average kitchen tosses out hundreds of dollars worth of edibles every year, says a study researchers are calling the first of its kind. “It’s a lot of food,” said Lori Nikkel of Second Harvest, […]
Staff Plans are underway for the Business & Community Expo 2019, which is set for April 27-28 at the Fort Frances Curling Club. The event, sponsored by Tbaytel, will be held at the curling club for a fourth year. “It’s been a great location for us,” enthused Jennifer Soderholm, executive […]
Look for increasing cloudiness tonight, with an overnight low of minus-26 C (15 below zero F) and west-northwest winds gusting up to 17 km/h. Tomorrow will see gradual clearing, with a high of just minus-22 (seven below) and low around minus-28 (18 below). Expect north-northwest winds gusting up to 13 […]
Press Release The Backus Community Center in International Falls is excited to announce its newly-established 2019 Arts Education Program. This compilation of trainings will focus on increasing the number of art-centered learning experiences offered by the community center. It will include the current annual “Summer Arts” week, as well as […]
Staff Issy Taylor scored a hat trick to pace the Muskie girls’ hockey team to an 8-1 rout of the host Kenora Broncos on Tuesday afternoon for their third-straight win. Taylor, Ellayna Kabel, and Martina Woods all bulged the twine within the first 10 minutes of the first period as […]
The Canadian Press THUNDER BAY, Ont.–Provincial police say a man whose body was found on the shoulder of a highway near Thunder Bay now is believed to be a homicide victim. Investigators found the body on Sunday and initially ruled the man’s death as suspicious. They’ve identified the man as […]
