Staff Take A Hit and the Volley Llamas both garnered the maximum six points in Fort Frances Women’s Volleyball League action last night. How I Set Your Mother and Gillons’ were right behind with five each. Scared Hitless and Duck and Dive both nabbed four points while Safe Sets and […]
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Staff Rainy River District will have a Crown attorney again. The Ministry of the Attorney General confirmed to the Times this morning that Jason Clouston will assume the role at the Fort Frances Courthouse starting March 1. Clouston currently is a Crown attorney in Manitoba. He will fill the vacancy […]
Duane Hicks Slowly but surely, the process to get a new OPP detachment headquarters built here keeps moving along. During a Police Services Board meeting this morning, new detachment commander Insp. Nathan Schmidt said he will attend a meeting in Orillia on Feb. 21-22 to provide input as to what […]
Duane Hicks New Rainy River District OPP detachment commander Insp. Nathan Schmidt gave an activity update to the local Police Services Board during its regular meeting this morning at the Civic Centre. Insp. Schmidt has filled the shoes of Insp. Steve Shouldice, who served 19 years with the Rainy River […]
The Canadian Press TORONTO–Vic Fedeli has been named interim leader of Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives after Patrick Brown’s resignation in the face of sexual misconduct allegations. Fedeli, 61, was selected by the PC caucus during a morning meeting. It’s not immediately clear if he will stay on to fight the spring […]
The Canadian PressMia Rabson OTTAWA–Gerald Lavallee was just three months old when he had his first contact with the child welfare system. By the time he was eight, he was a permanent ward of the system in North Bay, Ont. By 14, he had been in more than 40 foster […]
The Canadian PressMorgan Lowrie MONTREAL–Mars exploration is close enough that Canadian high school students can dream of setting foot on the red planet, astronaut David Saint-Jacques told a group of Quebec students yesterday. Saint-Jacques, who currently is training in Moscow, held a question-and-answer session by videoconference with four Quebec high […]
The Canadian PressGemma Karstens-Smith VANCOUVER–Smoky overtones can ruin a nice bottle of wine, but researchers in British Columbia are finding that preventing grapes from capturing the flavour of wildfires can be difficult. Wine grapes absorb smoke compounds, surrounding them with sugar, explained Wesley Zandberg, an assistant chemistry professor at the […]
The Canadian Press TORONTO–A former Ontario high school principal has pleaded guilty to professional misconduct after tampering with a standardized provincial literacy test. Christine Vellinga admitted in an agreed statement of facts with the Ontario College of Teachers that she went though student booklets after the test in March, 2016 […]
The Canadian PressBob Weber EDMONTON–The winds of change blow–even around a black hole. New Canadian-led research has peered into the strange world of black holes to discover they’re girded by electromagnetic winds that not only influence how the super-dense interstellar bodies gobble up anything that gets too close, but also […]
The Canadian Press TORONTO–Ontario’s Progressive Conservative caucus is meeting to choose an interim leader following Patrick Brown’s resignation in the face of sexual misconduct allegations. Brown stepped down as Ontario PC leader early yesterday after emphatically denying what he called “troubling allegations” about his conduct and his character. The allegations, […]
The Associated Press PARIS–Brawls have broken out in French supermarkets as shoppers scramble to get their hands on discounted jars of chocolate and hazelnut spread. Chaotic scenes were filmed in several supermarkets across the country operated by the Intermarche chain, which offered massive discounts on jars of Nutella. The promotion, […]
