The Legion Ladies’ Auxiliary will hold its next monthly supper–featuring roast beef–on Friday, Feb. 28 at 5:30 p.m. upstairs at the Legion (doors open at 4:30). Admission is $16/person, with take-outs available by calling 274-3772. Bring a friend! Backus Community Centre is presenting “Church of Cash” at the Backus Auditorium […]
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The Canadian Press TORONTO–Ontario is making changes to improve the home and community care system, in the hopes it helps keep people out of hospital who don’t need to be there. Health officials said that if passed, new legislation will allow for more flexibility in the system, in part by […]
The Canadian Press TORONTO–Ontario’s attorney general says the government is moving ahead with changes to the way judges and justices of the peace are appointed. Doug Downey says the province will expand the number of qualified candidates eligible for judicial appointments in a bid to fill vacancies in provincial courts […]
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The Muskie girls’ and boys’ hockey teams were able to draw first blood in their respective best-of-three NorWOSSA semifinal series on Tuesday night. Tatum Glowasky scored with 42.3 seconds remaining in overtime to lift the Muskie girls to a comeback 3-2 win over the Sioux Lookout Warriors in the opener […]
Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low of -19 C (-2 F). Tomorrow will be sunny and clear with a high of minus-seven (19) and a low of -21 (six below). Friday will be sunny with a chance of flurries overnight and a high of minus-six (21) with a […]
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Riverside Health Care in conjunction with the Northwestern Public Health Unit has declared the Gastroenteritis Outbreak over at Rainycrest Long Term Care Home, effective Feb. 27. All social events and activities at Rainycrest have resumed. All visitors are now welcomed. Riverside continues to urge the public to stay at home […]
The Canadian PressGregory Strong KINGSTON, Ont.–With four national men’s curling titles to his credit, Kevin Koe already has a Hall of Fame resume. Winning another Tim Hortons Brier crown would put his name into the record books. The defending champ will skip the Canada entry when the main draw begins […]
The Canadian PressShawn Jeffords TORONTO–The City of Toronto and the union representing thousands of its workers agreed yesterday to extend a strike deadline by 48 hours, with both sides expressing optimism that a deal can be reached to avoid a labour disruption. CUPE 416 president Eddie Mariconda said the parties […]
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Council narrowly approved a recommendation that will soon ban on-street parking during significant winter storms at their regular meeting on Monday night. A 3-2 vote agreed with the recommendation of operations and facilities manager, Travis Rob to amend the town’s Traffic Control Bylaw to include a provision banning on-street parking […]
Jamie Mountain Tatum Glowasky tipped a puck down to the ice from out of midair in front of Sioux Lookout Warriors goalie Anna Wesley’s net during the first period of the Muskie girls’ hockey team’s 3-2 overtime win in the opener of their best-of-three NorWOSSA semifinal series on Tuesday night […]
It’s hard work keeping an ice shed stocked through to the end of August. Every year in the waning days of February, families from a handful of cabins along a small lake in northwestern Ontario work together to cut and pull blocks of ice from the lake’s frozen surface to […]
The Canadian PressMike Blanchfield OTTAWA–A Conservative MP is questioning whether rail blockades in Quebec and Ontario constitute acts of terrorism, which could allow the RCMP to intervene. Doug Shipley put that question to Public Safety Minister Bill Blair on Thursday morning during testimony at the House of Commons public safety […]
