Kiera KowalskiSummer reporter Pull out your best red-and-white gear! Canada Day activities will start bright and early tomorrow morning to celebrate the country’s 150th anniversary. Things will kick off with a pancake breakfast from 7-9 a.m. at the Legion. The annual Canada Day parade will follow at 11 a.m., starting […]
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Expect showers tonight, with an overnight low of 10 C (50 F). Tomorrow will see morning showers, followed by a sun-cloud mix in the afternoon. Look for a high of 19 (66) and low around nine (48). Mainly sunny skies are forecast for Sunday, along with a high of 22 […]
By Nicole Winfield And Kristen Gelineau The Associated Press VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis suffered a major blow when his top financial adviser, Cardinal George Pell, was charged in his native Australia with multiple counts of sexual assault from years ago, bringing a criminal case in the long-running abuse scandal […]
By Matthew Lee And Alicia A. Caldwell The Associated Press WASHINGTON — A scaled-back version of President Donald Trump’s travel ban is now in force, stripped of provisions that brought protests and chaos at airports worldwide in January yet still likely to generate a new round of court fights. The […]
The Associated Press LEXINGTON, S.C. — A South Carolina couple is looking for some bigger baby clothes after their son was born at a whopping 14.4 pounds. WLTX-TV reports (http://on.wltx.com/2sXwYoQ ) that Colin Austin Keisler was born by cesarean section at a hospital in Lexington. The baby is healthy, but […]
By Linda Wang The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — A former StarKist tuna company executive has pleaded guilty in federal court to price-fixing packaged seafood sold in the United States. Stephen Hodge, a former senior vice-president for sales at StarKist Co., entered his plea Wednesday in federal court in San […]
By Melissa D’Arabian The Associated Press Growing up in the Southwest, a tortilla was a thin flatbread used to wrap around grilled meat and make tacos. I was in my 30s before I visited Barcelona, Spain, and was served a Spanish tortilla a completely different dish and I fell in […]
By Katie Workman The Associated Press One of the great, great, great (three times, that’s how great it is) pleasures of summer is figuring out what to do with all that fruit that floods the markets. Stone fruits like plums, peaches, nectarines, cherries; melons of all stripes; and berries. Oh, […]
By John Flesher The Associated Press TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Michigan’s attorney general on Thursday called for shutting down twin oil pipelines beneath the waterway where Lakes Huron and Michigan meet, as the state released a consultant’s report outlining alternative scenarios for the future of oil transport in the ecologically […]
The Canadian Press TORONTO — InnVest Hotels LP is acquiring the luxury hotel formerly known as Toronto’s Trump International Hotel and Tower from JCF Capital for an undisclosed amount. As part of the deal, the 65-storey facility will get a significant renovation and be renamed the St. Regis Toronto once […]
By Duane Hicks Local singers who want to participate in next month’s “Quest for the Best” had better act fact as only eight openings were left as of this morning. Jennifer Soderholm, executive director of the Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce, said registration opened Friday and 12 contestants already have […]
By Raphael SatterFrank Bajak And Jan M. Olsen The Associated Press PARIS — A cyberattack that caused indiscriminate economic damage around the world was apparently designed to create maximum havoc in Russia’s neighbour and adversary Ukraine, security researchers said. While the rogue software used in the attack was configured as […]
