It will be cloudy tonight, with an overnight low of minus-two C (28 F). Tomorrow also will be mostly cloudy but mild, with a high of seven (45) and low around minus-three (27). A mix of sun and clouds is forecast for Sunday, along with a high again of seven […]
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Staff The second season is calling and the defending champions can’t wait. How I Set Your Mother finished the Fort Frances Women’s Volleyball League’s regular season with a flourish last night, grabbing the maximum six points to finish in first place overall with 109 points. No Diggity, which spent most […]
Nicholas Donaldson Sierra Happy showed off her project, “Mold Growth,” during Robert Moore School’s annual science fair held yesterday in the school’s atrium. Happy tested bread, bananas, strawberries, and cheese, with only the strawberries showing mold over a 12-day period. Other students’ projects showcased a wide array of topics–from hockey […]
Joey Payeur Belle River Nobles’ assistant captain Andrew Thoms was willing to sacrifice his body to help goalie Patrick Timpany in trying to block this shot by St. Mary’s Crusaders’ captain Anthony Piccolo during the second period of the Nobles’ 3-2 win in a shootout last night in the gold-medal […]
Nicholas Donaldson Sam Stovel, Marketing and Community Outreach intern for Camp Quality Northwestern Ontario, held an information session at the Fort Frances Public Library Technology Centre yesterday. Camp Quality is an organization that holds a week-long camp for children with cancer (on treatment or in remission), as well as other […]
The Canadian Press OTTAWA–The House of Commons has passed a Liberal backbencher’s motion calling on federal politicians to condemn Islamophobia. The motion, known as M-103, became a matter of acrimonious debate, with opponents painting it as a slippery slope towards limiting freedom of speech and even bringing in Sharia law. […]
The Canadian Press OTTAWA–Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will travel to France next month to attend commemorations for the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge. The Canadian assault on German positions at Vimy Ridge began on Monday, April 9, 1917. The Battle of Vimy Ridge lasted four days, ending […]
The Canadian PressStephanie Levitz OTTAWA–The customary grilling of government that follows the tabling of a federal budget was all but shoved aside yesterday as opposition MPs pressed the Liberals not on their fiscal balance but their work-life one. Government House leader Bardish Chagger spent more time on her feet in […]
The Canadian PressPaola Loriggio TORONTO–Canada’s largest school board says it will stop booking trips to the United States indefinitely in light of the uncertainty surrounding restrictions at the border. The Toronto District School Board, which serves about 245,000 public school students, said it made the “difficult decision” because it believes […]
The Canadian Press DRAINEY INLET, B.C.–A man working in the forest on British Columbia’s central coast was mauled by a grizzly Wednesday. Sgt. Scott Norris with the B.C. Conservation Officer Service said other crew members quickly came to the man’s defence, but his injuries are significant. Officers with the service’s […]
The Canadian PressSidhartha Banerjee MONTREAL–A Quebec man has been charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of his ex-girlfriend as a police watchdog agency probes the actions of local police in the case. Anthony Pratte-Lops was arraigned in St-Hyacinthe yesterday in the death of 18-year-old Daphne Huard-Boudreault and will remain […]
Staff Lisa Penner has at least one more game to play. That’s the only certainty after this morning’s draw at the 2017 Canadian senior women’s curling championship in Fredericton, N.B. The Fort Frances resident plays third for the Northern Ontario rink skipped by Peggy Taylor of Kenora, which rebounded from […]
