Staff It was a storybook ending for Minot State Beavers as they claimed just the second national championship in program history last week. In what was touted as a “redemption tour” by the announcers of the ACHA, the Beavers had to run the gauntlet. The squad, which features former Fort […]
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Ken Kellar Oliver Urieta and Malcolm Daley of the Rainy River Association of Professional Paramedics gave the Tween Club at the Fort Frances Public Library a demonstration of their ambulance–and its siren–yesterday afternoon. The two paramedics were on hand to allow the Tween Club to see some of their equipment […]
Ken Kellar Grace Kooistra performed “Peace Country Hoedown” by composer Christine Donkin at the Townshend Theatre this morning as part of the Rainy River District Festival of the Performing Arts. The piano division of the festival will run until Thursday, with the vocal and drama divisions to follow in the […]
The Canadian PressShawn JeffordsArmina Ligaya Customers lined up at Ontario’s first brick-and-mortar cannabis stores yesterday, but fewer than half of the province’s government-licensed outlets were ready to open. The Progressive Conservative government had planned to have 25 private stores launch on April 1, but some were still working through a […]
The Canadian Press NIPAWIN, Sask.–Kelsey Fiddler says every time she looks at her smiling baby’s face she feels stronger. It’s a gift, she said, from the Humboldt Broncos defenceman she named her daughter after. Fiddler, who is from the Red Earth Cree Nation in Saskatchewan, was pregnant and travelling with […]
The Canadian Press TORONTO–Ontario’s financial watchdog says a planned minimum wage increase scrapped by the Tory government would have benefited workers more than a tax credit brought in to replace it. Financial Accountability Officer Peter Weltman said in a report today that the tax credit will benefit only 38 percent […]
The Canadian PressNeil Davidson TORONTO–After 24 scoreless innings by their starters, the Blue Jays ran out of arms and ammo yesterday. Sean Reid-Foley, summoned from Triple-A Buffalo to step in for the injured Clayton Richard, lasted just two innings as the Baltimore Orioles jumped into an early 5-0 lead. David […]
The Canadian Press TORONTO–Moments after Danny Green had one of the best offensive performances of his career, the Toronto Raptors guard beat a hasty exit to a nearby medical facility for tests on his injured thumb. Green jammed his left thumb in the first quarter of a 121-109 victory over […]
The Associated Press UNIONDALE, N.Y.–John Tavares didn’t acknowledge gaining any satisfaction from scoring against his former team. His focus was just on helping the Toronto Maple Leafs get in the playoffs. Tavares scored in the third period and the Maple Leafs clinched their post-season berth with a 2-1 victory over […]
The Associated Press COPENHAGEN–There’s no escape from the long arm of the law in Sweden. Not even sitting naked in a sauna. Police spokewoman Carina Skagerlind says an off-duty police officer found himself sitting in the same sauna in Rinkeby, a Stockholm suburb, as a fugitive who had dodged a […]
The Associated PressDarlene Superville WASHINGTON–Barbara Bush didn’t bite her tongue in recent years when it came to Donald Trump: She just didn’t like him. But a new biography of the former first lady finds that her disdain for the Republican president, who transformed the party her own family had embodied […]
The Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Russia–Officials in Russia say an explosion inside an elite military academy in the country’s second-largest city has wounded four people. An unidentified explosive device went off early this afternoon inside the prestigious Mozhaisky Academy in St. Petersburg, which trains officers for the army’s missile defence […]
