The Canadian Press SASKATOON—A federal court judge has ruled five First Nations don’t have to open their books to the public pending a challenge to a federal law. The First Nations Financial Transparency Act, passed in 2013, requires all reserves to post salaries and audited financial statements online. The reserves […]
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The Canadian PressTerry Pedwell OTTAWA—The country’s national mail carrier has halted the installation of community mailboxes—one week after the Trudeau Liberals were elected with a pledge to scrap the move away from door-to-door delivery. “Canada Post is temporarily suspending future deployment of the program to convert door-to-door mail delivery to […]
From the MNRF No new fires were confirmed in the Northwest Region between Oct. 22 and Oct. 26. There are three active fires in the region, all of which are reported as “being observed.” The forest fire hazard is “low” across the entire region. A prescribed burn in the Sioux […]
Duane Hicks The reconstruction of King’s Highway is nearly complete, with the town hoping that paving will take place this weekend. Operations and Facilities manager Doug Brown told council last night that Bay City Contractors completed three watermain tie-ins yesterday, with one more scheduled for today. Once that’s done, in […]
Staff Sturgeon Creek School is closed temporarily today after a small fire in the electrical room there yesterday afternoon. “As a precaution, resulting from a fire alarm that wasn’t a scheduled drill, the school was safely evacuated,” noted Darlene Madill, communications officer for the Rainy River District School Board. “Emergency […]
Staff The fortunes of both Pierce Dushenko and his team definitely are trending upward. Thanks to backstopping the Fort Frances Lakers to a pair of wins last week, Dushenko yesterday was named the Amyotte’s Awards & Promotions player-of-the-week in the SIJHL. The 20-year-old goalie from Coquitlam, B.C. turned aside 53-of-55 […]
The Associated Press MOSCOW Police in Russia’s far east stopped a hearse speeding on a highway ‚Äî only to find half a ton of caviar stashed inside. The Interior Ministry’s department in the Khabarovsk region said on Tuesday the hearse was caught speeding on the road connecting Khabarovsk, not far […]
By Alison Ladman THE ASSOCIATED PRESS This year we decided to reverse engineer the vegetarian Thanksgiving. Traditionally, diners who ditch the turkey are forced to cobble together a “main dish” by picking and choosing from the foods everyone else considers sides. But this year, we decided to create a vegetarian […]
By Matthew Brown The Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. The U.S. Interior Department should not have approved the expansion of a southeastern Montana coal mine without taking a closer look at its effect on the environment, a federal judge said about a lawsuit arguing the government ignored coal’s contributions to climate […]
The Associated Press NEW HAVEN, Conn. A federal appeals court has sided with Yale University in a dispute over the ownership of a $200 million Vincent van Gogh painting. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week upheld a 2014 ruling by a lower court that dismissed the claims […]
The Associated PressAngela Charlton PARIS—Hotdogs, bacon, cold cuts, and other processed meats raise the risk of colon, stomach, and other cancers, and red meat probably contributes to the disease, too, the World Health Organization said today, throwing its considerable authority behind what many doctors have been warning for years. WHO’s […]
The Associated Press STILLWATER, Okla.—A 25-year-old woman accused of driving her car into a crowd of spectators at the Oklahoma State University homecoming parade was scheduled to appear in court today, two days after she allegedly struck the victims with such force that their bodies went flying into the air. […]
