Heather Latter Local artist Jenny Coats finished hanging up her artwork at the Fort Frances Public Library Technology Centre on Tuesday afternoon. Coats’ first exhibit, her work will be on display there during the rest of March. She also has been conducting workshops at the Fort Frances Museum, with the […]
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The Canadian PressBill Graveland LETHBRIDGE, Alta.—Three close calls that could have ended in tragedy spurred the Lethbridge Police Service to rethink how it was responding to troubled individuals causing a disturbance. Officers were dispatched to deal with reports of armed persons who were suffering from a mental crisis. In each […]
The Canadian Press CROSS LAKE, Man.—A remote Manitoba First Nation declared a state of emergency yesterday after six suicides in the last two months and 140 attempts in the last two weeks alone. Officials from the Pimicikamak Cree Nation, known as Cross Lake, say health workers on the northern reserve […]
By Foster Klug And Hyung-Jin Kim The Associated Press SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of North Korea responded Thursday to new sanctions from South Korea by firing short-range ballistic missiles into the sea in a show of defiance and vowing to “liquidate” all remaining South Korean assets at former co-operative projects in […]
By David Rising The Associated Press BERLIN Germany’s federal criminal police said Thursday they are in possession of files containing personal data on members of the extremist Islamic State group and believe them to be authentic. The announcement came after Britain’s Sky News reported it had obtained 22,000 Islamic State […]
By Nicole Winfield The Associated Press VATICAN CITY Pope Francis imposed new financial accountability regulations on the Vatican’s multimillion-dollar saint-making machine Thursday after gross abuses were revealed in two books. The rules require external vigilance over individual Vatican bank accounts created for beatification and canonization causes, as well as regular […]
By Lauran Neergaard The Associated Press WASHINGTON Nearly 1 in 3 patients who needs a kidney transplant is especially hard to match, and new research suggests a painstaking treatment to help those patients tolerate an incompatible organ is worth considering. More hospitals have begun offering so-called desensitization therapy to help […]
By Lauran Neergaard The Associated Press WASHINGTON The nation’s first uterus transplant has failed, the Cleveland Clinic announced Wednesday, saying doctors had removed the organ. A 26-year-old woman received the transplant on Feb. 24 and seemed to be doing well, even appearing briefly at a news conference on Monday with […]
By Joan Lowy The Associated Press WASHINGTON The government would standardize the way airlines disclose fees for basic services like checked bags, seat assignments and ticket changes so that passengers can more easily comparison-shop the full cost of flights under a bipartisan Senate bill introduced Wednesday. The proposal is part […]
By Beth J. Harpaz The Associated Press Whether or not you can buy Donald Trump’s steaks, and whether or not he wins the Republican presidential nomination, one thing is for sure: Trump the Brand is alive and well. Trump brandished steak, wine and water at his press conference Tuesday night […]
The Associated Press NEW YORK Even the “Most Interesting Man in the World” is not immune to getting dumped. Mexican beer brand Dos Equis is letting go of its grey-haired spokesman, 77-year-old Jonathan Goldsmith, and replacing him with another actor. Goldsmith, known in the ads as the “Most Interesting Man […]
The Associated Press NEW YORK Amazon is taking to the skies. The e-commerce powerhouse has finalized an agreement to lease 20 Boeing jets from Air Transport Services Group Inc. as it builds out its U.S. delivery capabilities. Amazon has been investing heavily in its shipping infrastructure, adding sorting centres, which […]
