Submitted A group of local teens played the popular role-playing game, “Dungeons & Dragons,” yesterday evening during “Nerd Night” in the Shaw Community Hub at the Fort Frances Public Library Technology Centre. “Nerd Night” runs each Wednesday from 5:30-7:30 p.m. January is “Dungeons & Dragons Month” but “Nerd Night” rotates […]
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The Canadian PressJoan Bryden OTTAWA–Scott Brison is quitting a political career he loves to spend more time with a cherished family that politics made possible. After 22 years representing the Nova Scotia riding of Kings-Hants, initially as a Progressive Conservative MP before jumping to the Liberals in 2003, Brison told […]
The Canadian PressMorgan Lowrie MONTREAL–The federal government is working with security agencies and airports to develop measures to prevent drones from flying into space reserved for aircraft, Transport minister Marc Garneau said yesterday as he announced new regulations for drone operators. Garneau’s comments came after recent drone sightings at London’s […]
The Canadian Press OTTAWA–The relevance of the NDP in an election year will be put to the test next month in federal byelections called yesterday by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Trudeau set Feb. 25 as the date for byelections in the Ontario riding of York-Simcoe, Montreal’s Outremont, and B.C.’s Burnaby […]
The Canadian PressAllison Jones TORONTO–Ontario elementary teachers have taken the government to court over the province’s sex-ed curriculum in part because of a warning to educators that came along with it, their lawyer said yesterday. A Toronto court is hearing a legal challenge from both the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of […]
The Canadian Press TORONTO–A Toronto-based publisher says Ontario’s finance minister is pursuing legal action against Patrick Brown over allegations made in a tell-all book by the former Progressive Conservative leader. Dean Baxendale said yesterday that lawyers for Vic Fedeli have demanded a full retraction of allegations of sexual misconduct made […]
The Canadian PressLaura Kane KAMLOOPS, B.C.–Indigenous people yesterday voiced their anger and frustration with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a chaotic town hall in Kamloops, B.C., loudly interrupting him to condemn the arrests of protesters at a pipeline blockade. While Trudeau was answering a question on accountability for the oil-and-gas […]
The Canadian Press OSHAWA, Ont.–Unionized workers at the General Motors assembly plant in Oshawa, Ont. staged a second work-stoppage after the company confirmed it would not reconsider plans to close the facility. Unifor said the protest yesterday morning lasted close to two hours before it ended, and followed about a […]
By Seth Borenstein The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Sharing false information on Facebook is old. People over 65 and ultra conservatives shared about seven times more fake information masquerading as news on the social media site than younger adults, moderates and super liberals during the 2016 election season, a new […]
By Armina Ligaya The Canadian Press A legal gram of cannabis in Canada costs nearly 50 per cent more than illicit pot, according to a new analysis of price quotes compiled by Statistics Canada. The average price of a legal gram of medical or non-medical weed during the fourth quarter […]
By Lauran Neergaard The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Is the pain stabbing or burning? On a scale from 1 to 10, is it a 6 or an 8? Over and over, 17-year-old Sarah Taylor struggled to make doctors understand her sometimes debilitating levels of pain, first from joint-damaging childhood arthritis […]
Look for increasing cloudiness tonight, with an overnight low of minus-18 C (zero F) and north-northeast winds gusting up to 11 km/h. Tomorrow will be cloudy, with a high of minus-10 (14) and low around minus-13 (eight). Expect east-southeast winds gusting up to 15 km/h. Occasional flurries are forecast for […]
