Staff The PeeWee ‘AAA’ Paper Kings represented Northwestern Ontario–and Canada–at the Paul Bunyan International PeeWee Hockey Tournament held Dec. 28-30 in Bemidji, Mn. The team features local players Teagan Wrolstad, Royce Allan, Dakato Cooper, and Hayden Beckett, and is coached by Rooke Pitura of Kenora along with Corrie Trist and […]
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The Canadian PressJoshua Clipperton TORONTO–Class was in session for the Maple Leafs last night. And Toronto head coach Mike Babcock was clear in his grading–they didn’t pass the test. Pekka Rinne made 18 saves for his third shutout of the season as the Nashville Predators jumped out to a 2-0 […]
The Canadian PressMia Rabson OTTAWA–A decade-old goal to get at least half-a-million electric cars on Canada’s roads by the end of 2018 appears to have missed the mark by more than 400,000. The 2009 Electric Vehicle Technology Road Map for Canada, produced by a panel of experts in part for […]
The Canadian Press VANCOUVER–The Court of Appeal of British Columbia has given the federal government more time to fix its solitary confinement law after a lower court declared indefinite prisoner segregation unconstitutional. The B.C. Supreme Court ruling last January gave Ottawa a year to enact replacement legislation but the Appeal […]
Duane Hicks Bingo caller Sarah Clouston, left, and library CEO Caroline Goulding checked which numbers had been called during a game yesterday afternoon at the Fort Frances Public Library. The game was played during the weekly “Tween Club” which has resumed now that the Christmas break is over. Youths aged […]
The Canadian PressRyan McKenna MELFORT, Sask.–The driver of a transport truck involved in a deadly crash with the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team’s bus pleaded guilty today to all charges against him. “I plead guilty, your honour,” Jaskirat Singh Sidhu said as he stood before a judge in a court […]
The Canadian Press ATLANTIC OCEAN, At Sea–An Ontario-based record-setting solo rower is back at sea on his latest cross-continental expedition–this time joined by his 20-year-old daughter. John and Libby Beeden are nearly halfway through their 5,650-km voyage from Portimao, Portugal to Antigua after setting off about a month ago. Cheryl […]
From the OPP On Jan. 6 around 4:05 p.m., the Kenora OPP was advised of an out building on fire at a residence on Highway 596. The OPP, along with the Pellatt Fire Department, attended a short time later and were able to extinguish the blaze. As a result of […]
The Canadian PressPaola Loriggio TORONTO–Ontario’s post-secondary institutions now are expected to have free-speech policies in place under a controversial provincial rule that officially came into effect this year. The governing Progressive Conservatives announced last summer that all publicly-funded colleges and universities would have until Jan. 1 to develop and implement […]
The Canadian PressShawn Jeffords TORONTO–Ontario kicked off its application process yesterday for the first 25 cannabis retail licences in the province, with the results of a lottery expected later this week. The government said the firm cap on the number of stores that will open this spring was needed due […]
The Canadian PressShawn Jeffords TORONTO–Work to rebuild Ontario’s Liberals gets underway in earnest this year after their decimation at the ballot box last spring, but the party may wait until after the fall federal election to chose a permanent new leader. Interim leader John Fraser said the party will move […]
It will be overcast tonight, with an overnight low of minus-17 C (one F) and west-northwest winds gusting up to 26 km/h. Tomorrow will be partly sunny but cold, with a high of minus-13 (eight) and low around minus-20 (four (below zero). Look for northwest winds gusting up to 22 […]
