Staff The Fort Frances Wolves (Ma’iingan) showed some bite to their game over the weekend. Fort Frances blanked the Kenora Huskies 3-0 in Sunday morning’s Novice division final to capture the gold medal at the Fort Frances Girls’/Women’s Hockey Association’s annual Novice and Atom tournaments at the Ice For Kids […]
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Duane Hicks Harper Gunderson diced up a tomato to help make “pizzadillas” yesterday afternoon during the Tween’s Club’s first instalment of the “You’re The Chef” program at the Fort Frances Public Library. Over the next four weeks, health educator Barb Kabel of the Northwestern Health Unit is teaching a dozen […]
Duane Hicks Laura Gosse, community engagement co-ordinator for the Fort Frances Museum, pinned up “Floating Honu,” an example of the high-quality fibre art comprising the new exhibit, “Fibre Content,” which opened today in the main floor gallery. The travelling exhibit, which features impressive fibre art from abroad, will be up […]
Sam Odrowski Shakira Gerald, a lab technologist for Riverside Health Care, spoke to a Grade 8 class at St. Francis School yesterday about her role at the hospital and what goes on at the laboratory behind the scenes. The presentation was meant to enhance the cell structure and systems unit […]
Look for occasional light snow late tonight, with a possible accumulation of one-three cm (about an inch). The overnight low will be minus-18 C (zero F), with northeast winds gusting up to 11 km/h. Tomorrow will see snow, particularly later in the day, with a possible accumulation of five-10 cm […]
The Canadian PressJoan Bryden OTTAWA–Canada’s chief electoral officer is “pretty confident” that Elections Canada has good safeguards to prevent cyberattacks from robbing Canadians of their right to vote in this year’s federal election. But Stephane Perrault is worried political parties aren’t so well-equipped. “They don’t have access to the resources […]
The Associated PressDavid Bauder PASADENA, Calif.–The New England Patriots’ competitive but action-starved Super Bowl victory over the L.A. Rams on Sunday night was seen by 100.7 million people on television and streaming services–the smallest audience for football’s annual spectacle in a decade. A boycott by disgruntled New Orleans Saints’ fans, […]
The Canadian PressAllison Jones TORONTO–Ontario’s health minister yesterday was forced to make assurances that long-term care inspections and the province’s air ambulance service will not be privatized, as leaked documents appear to peg those services for “outsourcing.” Christine Elliott’s comments came after the NDP released a second set of confidential […]
The Canadian PressLiam Casey TORONTO–A serial killer who preyed on men from Toronto’s gay village took photographs of his victims’ bodies posed in various states of undress and kept the images on his computer, accessing some of them long after the killings. The Crown provided previously-unheard details of Bruce McArthur’s […]
The Canadian PressBob Weber One of nature’s greatest migrations may be returning to health after a stunning growth in the number of monarch butterflies that fluttered across North America last year. But if populations of the striking black-and-orange aviators are starting to recover, it’s no thanks to Canada, said Carolyn […]
The Canadian PressTeresa Wright OTTAWA–The Conservative party has removed all Heritage Minute branding from an online video released over the weekend that took aim at the Trudeau government for a handful of ethics breaches. In a tweet published by the Conservative party’s official account yesterday, the party said the intention […]
The Canadian Press FIELD, B.C.–A Canadian Pacific freight train fell more than 60 metres from a bridge near the Alberta-British Columbia boundary in a derailment that killed three crew members, a union representative said yesterday. The westbound freight jumped the tracks around 1 a.m. near Field, B.C. Greg Edwards with […]
