Staff Members of the Muskie Nordic ski team had their talents on full display at the OFSAA championships held Thursday and Friday in Duntroon. Leading the way was Emma Toriseva, who nabbed a 12th-place finish out of 129 competitors in the high school junior girls’ 3.5-km division with a time […]
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Staff Ben Lavoie scored with 5:05 left in overtime to lift the Sioux Lookout Warriors to a 3-2 win over the Muskie boys’ hockey team in the third-and-deciding game of their NorWOSSA final yesterday afternoon at the Ice For Kids Arena. The Warriors now advance to OFSAA for the second-straight […]
Staff They battled all season but a berth to the all-Ontarios just wasn’t in the cards for the Muskie girls’ hockey team. Lauryn Loyer scored twice to pace the Dryden Eagles to a convincing 5-1 win in Game 2 of their NorWOSSA final Thursday night at the Ice For Kids […]
The Associated Press MONTREAL — The Quebec Court of Appeal has upheld a landmark judgment that ordered three tobacco companies to pay billions of dollars in damages to Quebec smokers. Imperial Tobacco, JTI-Macdonald and Rothmans, Benson & Hedges had appealed a ruling that found the companies chose profits over the […]
By David Paddon The Canadian Press TORONTO — The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission is indicating that the country’s three dominant wireless carriers may be required to provide smaller competitors with easier access to their national networks. The CRTC’s message this week comes just days after the Trudeau government signalled […]
By Mary Carole McCauley The Associated Press BALTIMORE — A gesture as simple as writing a check can have heroic consequences. The $900 that the Baltimore heiress and art patron Saidie Adler May filled out represents a modest sum, even viewed from the perspective of 1940. It’s the equivalent of […]
By Ian Bickis THE CANADIAN PRESS A new bar will soon be set on what counts as sustainable forestry, holding potential implications for the future of the woodland caribou and of the forestry industry itself. After years of debate, the Canadian division of the Forest Stewardship Council hopes to have […]
By Marcia Dunn The Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A sleek American-built capsule with just a test dummy aboard docked smoothly with the International Space Station on Sunday in a big step toward putting the U.S. back in the business of launching astronauts. The white Dragon capsule, developed by […]
The Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. — Enbridge Energy is delaying the startup of its planned Line 3 replacement crude oil pipeline through northern Minnesota by a year. The Canadian-based company said Friday it now expects the new pipeline to go into service in the second half of 2020. Enbridge […]
By Andy Blatchford THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The economy expanded at an annualized pace of 0.4 per cent over the final three months of 2018 as the country posted its weakest quarterly growth since the middle of 2016, Statistics Canada said Friday. The agency’s latest figures for real gross […]
By Rachel D’Oro THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The world’s foremost sled dog race kicks off its 47th running this weekend as participants strive to push past a punishing two years for the sport’s image. Some of the drama has been resolved for Alaska’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. […]
By Eric Talmadge THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HANOI, Vietnam — President Donald Trump said he walked away from his second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un because Kim demanded the U.S. lift all of its sanctions, a claim that North Korea’s delegation called a rare news conference in the […]
