By Felicia Fonseca The Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. A man has logged the fastest Grand Canyon river trip on record, battling blisters and rapids as he paddled his kayak down a 277-mile (445-kilometre) stretch of the Colorado River in 34 hours and two minutes. Ben Orkin reached the end of […]
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By Aron Heller The Associated Press JERUSALEM Throughout the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam, and while incarcerated in two prison camps, Mirjam Bolle wrote letters to her fiance that she never sent but hoped to share with him after the war. Yet when the two ultimately reunited she decided to leave […]
By Melissa D’Arabian The Associated Press Having a trusty fast food strategy is the busy person’s key to eating well. When I’m swamped with work, travel, kids’ activities (or whatever), I quite simply cannot be trusted to choose the healthy meal over the quick one. Unless, that is, the healthy […]
By Alison Ladman THE ASSOCIATED PRESS On crazy weeknights, sometimes the only thing standing between you and yet another order of takeout… Is a box of pasta. Because a box of pasta is like that been-through-it-all-with-you friend, that dinnertime Swiss Army knife that can be counted on in your time […]
By Lindsay Whitehurst The Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY A federal judge began hearing evidence Monday in a child labour case involving a Utah polygamous sect, including testimony from a former member who says she would have been kicked out of the faith if she didn’t work on a pecan […]
Staff They didn’t win the ultimate game but they did win their last one. The Muskie boys’ hockey team earned a third-place finish at the sixth-annual Boston Pizza Piper Classic Tournament of Champions in Winnipeg with a 4-3 win over the College Jeanne-Sauvé Olympiens in the bronze-medal game yesterday. Graeme […]
The Canadian PressJoan Bryden OTTAWA—Liberal MP Mauril Belanger is losing his own singing voice but that’s not stopping him from trying—for a second time—to change the English lyrics to “O Canada” to make the national anthem more gender neutral. The veteran Ottawa MP, whose vocal chords have been weakened by […]
Heather Latter Alex Andrushuk of Curves looked on as Tracy Webb tried out a piece of equipment during the open house there Saturday. Those interested were invited to stop by to meet the staff and try out the circuit, as well as enter a draw to win a three-month membership.
The Canadian Press LA LOCHE, Sask.—Raw and unspeakable grief consumed residents of a northern Saskatchewan community struggling to deal with a mass shooting and hoping to find forgiveness in prayer. Residents in La Loche gathered at a church yesterday morning, and for an evening candle light vigil, as they tried […]
Heather Latter Stewart Firth carried in the haggis behind piper Bruce Lidkea on Saturday evening during the “Rabbie Burns” dinner hosted by the Emo and District Lions Club at the Emo Legion. The event also featured music by “Entirely Mac,” dancing by the Fort Frances Highlanders, information about Robert Burns, […]
Joey Payeur Aidan Taggart of the Fort Frances Atom ‘AA’ Canadians was tailed by Darcy Hamilton of the Thunder Bay North End Flames during this second-period rush in the gold-medal game of the Canadians’ home tournament yesterday at the Ice For Kids Arena. The Canadians couldn’t break through against the […]
The Associated Press LA QUINTA, Calif.—Jason Dufner made two great escapes. The first from Alcatraz, no less. David Lingmerth got no such reprieve at PGA West’s punishing TPC Stadium Course. Dufner won the CareerBuilder Challenge with a par on the second hole of a playoff yesterday, taking advantage of Lingmerth’s […]
