Jamie Mountain It was a devilishly good performance to cap the weekend. Harmony Yerxa scored all three goals as the Fort Frances Ice Devils skated to a 3-1 win over the Fort Frances Heat in Sunday’s final of the Fort Frances Girls’/Women’s Hockey Association’s Novice division tournament at the Ice […]
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Jamie Mountain The good times kept rolling for both Muskie girls’ volleyball teams last week. The senior squad capped the week by earning bronze at the 20-team St. Patrick tournament that ran Friday and Saturday in Thunder Bay. The black-and-gold finished round-robin play in second place with wins over Sioux […]
Jamie Mountain The best thing for the Fort Frances Lakers to do is move on from the disappointment of losing all three of their games last week. Last Tuesday night (Jan. 39), the surging North Stars cruised to a 6-2 romp over the Lakers during the SIJHL’s annual “Showcase” that […]
Staff It was a successful endeavour for a pair of Fort Frances rinks at the U18 West regional boys’ and girls’ playdowns in Keewatin over the weekend. The Jordon Bazylewski and Tory Beaudry rinks both earned berths at the U18 provincials that will run March 7-11 in New Liskeard. Bazylewski, […]
Jamie Mountain Sometimes the breaks just don’t go your way–as the Muskie boys’ hockey team learned first-hand in Winnipeg over the weekend. The squad won its first three games before falling 2-1 to the Sturgeon Heights Huskies on Sunday in the championship game of the annual Piper Classic tournament. “[What] […]
Senior Muskie Brandon Larson had little resistance as he laid one in during Fort High’s 78-44 rout of the visiting Kenora Broncos last Thursday afternoon. With the win, the black-and-gold saw their NorWOSSA record improve to 3-3.
The Canadian PressJoanna Smith OTTAWA–The Conservatives now are ready to ask potential candidates specifically whether they have ever been accused of inappropriate sexual behaviour. Party spokesman Cory Hann said the questionnaire that anyone seeking to join a nomination contest must complete was updated Jan. 31. That was the same day […]
The Associated PressDan Gelston PHILADELPHIA–Kevin Hart fessed up he was tipsy when he tried to crash the Super Bowl stage and celebrate with his hometown Philadelphia Eagles when they hoisted the Lombardi Trophy. The pint-sized funnyman ran into a no-nonsense security guard who refused to allow Hart, wearing an Eagles’ […]
Duane Hicks Ryder Brown, left, Brayden Neurinski, Nicholas Pocock, and Jaxon Byma stepped up to the challenge of finding 100 words and then writing them down in Sarah Freeman-Kivimaki’s kindergarten class this morning at Robert Moore School. Students at district schools have been marking their 100th day of the school […]
The Canadian PressStephanie Levitz OTTAWA–The Conservatives are proposing legislation aimed at ensuring disabled Canadians don’t wind up losing their disability benefits when they get a job, earn a raise, or work longer hours. As it stands now, said Conservative finance critic Pierre Poilievre, both federal and provincial governments claw back […]
The Canadian PressMia Rabson OTTAWA–More fish habitat in Canada will be protected from harmful activities under broad changes to the Fisheries Act scheduled to be proposed today by the federal government. Fisheries minister Dominic LeBlanc was in Vancouver to make the announcement to fulfil one of his mandate orders to […]
The Canadian PressLee Berthiaume OTTAWA–The federal Conservatives yesterday cited an itemized list of Liberal-approved expenditures to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as they demanded he apologize for saying some veterans want more than the government can afford. Trudeau made the comments during a town hall event in Edmonton last week, where […]
