The Canadian Press KILLAM, Alta.—A 10-year-old boy has died while driving a forklift in Alberta. RCMP say it happened Saturday morning on his family’s farm near Killam, southeast of Edmonton. They say it appears the machine became unstable while the boy was driving it on a gravel road, and that […]
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The Canadian PressJim Bronskill OTTAWA—The federal government has rebuffed Air Canada’s plea to be compensated for a portion of the more than $100 million the airline says it has spent over the last five years to accommodate gun-toting sky marshals on its flights. Newly-released documents show the government dismissed the […]
The Associated PressJoe Resnick LOS ANGELES—The Toronto Raptors shut down Blake Griffin and Chris Paul, then had enough to hold off the L.A. Clippers at the very end. DeMar DeRozan had 21 points, and DeMarre Carroll scored all of his 21 points in the first half, as the Raptors held […]
Staff There will be no return visit to the all-Ontarios this season for the Muskie senior boys’ volleyball team, which was swept in the best-of-three NWOSSAA final by the host Churchill Trojans (Thunder Bay) over the weekend. Fort High was forced to default its first match Friday night when their […]
Staff The Town of Fort Frances will announce its “Citizen of the Year” tonight. The presentation will be made at 7 p.m. during the regular meeting of council. The town put out a call for nominations last month, with the submission deadline being Nov. 5. The committee of the whole […]
SubmittedSandra Brunetta Wanda Johnson, from the Emo Health Centre’s activation program, displayed a variety of items she and Hannah Nussbaumer donated to raise funds during the “Vendor Blender” sale Saturday at Rainycrest. The proceeds went to the activation program and to a local family in desperate need of a new […]
By Christopher Torchia The Associated Press JOHANNESBURG Pope Paul VI became the first modern pope to visit Africa in 1969 and declared the continent a “new homeland” for Jesus Christ. During the quarter century of his papacy, St. John Paul II travelled to 42 African countries and earned the nickname […]
By Rod McGuirk THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CANBERRA, Australia The deep sea hunt for a missing Malaysian airliner has shifted to a remote part of the Indian Ocean where a British pilot has calculated that the Boeing 777 made a controlled ditching last year with 239 people aboard, officials said Monday. […]
The Associated Press EUREKA, Calif. A red panda that went missing three days ago from a zoo on California’s far north coast has been safely located and returned to her home in Eureka. The Eureka Times Standard reports Sunday that the tiny creature named Masala was found safe and sound […]
By Sara Moulton The Associated Press When I was a kid, my parents sometimes brought home tins of deliriously delicious cheese crackers. I can’t remember the brand I think it was a British import but I do remember that my sister and brother and I would inhale them as soon […]
Staff Members of the student leadership council at Fort High dropped off the food collected through its “We Scare Hunger” campaign to the local Salvation Army this morning. Instead of collecting candy on Hallowe’en, the teens chose to collect non-perishable items to donate to the food bank. The group collected […]
Heather Latter Darcy Banman, left, Dawn Gray, and Sheri Payne of The Bargain Shop showed off the array of goodies available there this morning. Staff at the store were holding the bake sale to help raise some funds to “adopt-a-family” through the local Salvation Army’s annual Christmas hamper program. The […]
