Tonight will be rather cloudy with a couple of flurries and a low of minus-one C (30 F). Tomorrow will see low clouds. Expect a high of seven (45) and a low of minus-one (30). Wednesday will be cloudy, with a couple of showers, a high of seven (45) and […]
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Jamie Mountain It was all a matter of who was going to retrieve the ball first as the Muskie and Rainy River Owl girls’ soccer teams renewed their rivalry on Thursday afternoon in exhibition action at Fort High. The black-and-gold prevailed in both games, with the girls’ squad winning 2-0 […]
Sam Odrowski The 908 Rainy Lake Air Cadets were selling for their meat and BBQ draw at their booth during the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce’s Business & Community Expo on Saturday at the Fort Frances Curling Club. The funds raised from the draw will be used to offset the […]
Sam Odrowski Kathy Foy, left, and Pam Rittau of the United Native Friendship Centre invite members of the public to come to their main building located on 516 Portage Ave. and view their display honouring indigenous women for “Red Dress Day.” If anybody would like to honour an indigenous women […]
Staff Chantal Derendorf, left, Jaana Georgeson and Sheri Georgeson chose where to put their tickets at the penny table during “Mama’s Gone Country Chic,” this year’s spring fundraiser luncheon for the Riverside Foundation for Health Care, which was held Saturday upstairs at the Emo-La Vallee Community Centre. All funds from […]
Instrumental Division (April 25) Be sure to check out the “Highlights” concert for the Rainy River District Festival of the Performing Arts festival tomorrow at 6:30 p.m. at the Townshend Theatre.
By Aleksandra Sagan The Canadian Press The average value of Canadian farmland rose nearly seven per cent last year, according to a new report, but that growth rate is likely to be cut in half over 2019 amid ongoing canola trade issues with China. The 6.6 per cent gain for […]
By Liz Weston Of Nerdwallet The Associated Press Most retirement calculators are optimistic to a fault. They assume our incomes will rise throughout our working lives, or at least stay roughly the same. In reality, our incomes are likely to peak years ‚Äî and sometimes decades before we retire. Consider […]
By Nick Perry The Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Britain’s Prince William on Friday visited the two mosques where a gunman last month killed 50 people and said the white supremacist accused of the massacre had failed in his mission to spread hate. The Duke of Cambridge spoke to […]
By By Rachel Lerman The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — When a robot “dies,” does it make you sad? For lots of people, the answer is “yes” ‚Äî and that tells us something important, and potentially worrisome, about our emotional responses to the social machines that are starting to move […]
By Candice Choi THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — As recent illnesses tied to raw turkey, ground beef, cut melon and romaine lettuce suggest, U.S. food poisoning cases don’t appear to be going away anytime soon. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a report Thursday that the […]
The Associated Press OTTAWA — Canada’s privacy czar said Thursday that he is taking Facebook to court after finding that lax practices at the social media giant allowed personal information to be used for political purposes. A joint report from privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien and his British Columbia counterpart said […]
