Jamie Mountain Fort Frances Lakers’ defenceman Matthew Dyck did his best to keep Wisconsin Lumberjacks’ forward Lukas Lundgren under wraps defensively during the Lakers’ 3-0 loss on Monday afternoon in an SIJHL Family Day matinee game at the Ice For Kids Arena.
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The Canadian PressDonna Spencer While Vancouver celebrates the 10th anniversary of the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, the man who co-led the bid and headed the organizing committee wants the city to do it again in 2030. John Furlong told the Vancouver Board of Trade in a speech today […]
The Canadian Press TORONTO–Bargaining is set to resume today between the Ontario government and two teachers’ unions, just one day before a planned joint strike by all four major teacher groups in the province. The Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association (OECTA), the French public teachers’ union and the unions representing […]
INTERNATIONAL FALLS–Voyageurs National Park Association (VNPA), in partnership with the National Park Service and the University of Minnesota – Duluth, will host a free dark sky program on Feb. 27. The program will be offered twice and registration is required. The Cosmic Tour and Dark Sky Adventure will be hosted […]
The Canadian Press OTTAWA–Healthy Canadians from the Diamond Princess cruise ship will shortly be heading home, according to Canada’s foreign affairs minister, after weeks under quarantine for the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19. The ship, docked in Yokohama, Japan, contained the largest outbreak of the virus outside China, with hundreds of […]
The Canadian Press KRASNOYARSK, Russia–Mackenzie Zacharias of Altona, Man., split her games on the final day of round-robin play at the world junior curling championship while Winnipeg’s Jacques Gauthier dropped a 6-5 decision to Scotland’s James Craik. The Canadian teams had previously secured playoff berths but the semifinal matchups weren’t […]
The Canadian Press OTTAWA — The federal Crown-Indigenous relations minister is offering to meet today with Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs in northwestern British Columbia. But while Carolyn Bennett and her B.C. counterpart Scott Fraser say they’ll be in the town of Smithers to talk about reducing tensions over the construction of […]
The staff and board members of the Fort Frances Public Library Technology Centre posed for a photo with Science North staff scientist Grace Schmidt, centre, during the training day that was held in the building yesterday. Schmidt trained the library staff and board members on the use of the THINK […]
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It was a stellar end to the NorWOSSA regular season for both the Muskie boys’ and girls’ hockey teams in Dryden on Tuesday. Both teams came away with wins over the host Eagles to finish atop their respective divisions and will be the top seed in next week’s semifinals. The […]
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(KENORA, ON) Members of the Kenora Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU) and the Organized Crime and Enforcement Bureau (OCEB) have made an arrest as a result of an investigation. On Tuesday Feb. 18, at 1:39 p.m. police arrested a 35-year-old Kenora man with multiple weapons-related infractions, including Possession of a […]
The Fort Frances Curling Club will be hosting an Introduction to Wheelchair Curling, in anticipation of the Northern Ontario Provincial Wheelchair Championships. The event is open to the general public and free of charge. It will take place Friday, Feb. 21 from 10 a.m. to noon, at the Fort Frances […]
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The Fort Frances Lakers used a pair of first-period power-play goals to nab a 5-1 road win over the Dryden GM Ice Dogs last night in SIJHL action at the Memorial Arena in Dryden. The game originally was supposed to take place at the Lac Seul Events Centre, but ice […]
