- Allan Bradbury

The Muskie Boys Junior and Senior basketball teams have reached the end of their season, earning silver at NorWOSSA in Dryden last weekend. The junior Muskie boys, above, beat Dryden easily in their semi-final basketball match on Friday morning but injuries from that game and earlier in the season made […]

By Spencer Tierney
Of Nerdwallet

Kristy Jiayi Xu got an unwelcome surprise this New Year’s Eve: The roof of her garage was leaking during a severe rainstorm in San Francisco. Delays in getting a contractor to fix the roof has brought unexpected costs to keep things dry, including a dehumidifier. “My husband and I are […]

- Allan Bradbury photo

Millennium Park in Alberton was bustling with activity for Family Day yesterday. Kids and their families enjoyed a day of skating, sledding, games, and snacks.

By Allison Jones and Liam Casey
THE CANADIAN PRESS

Questions about Premier Doug Ford’s relationship with developers and the expansion of private health-care delivery will dominate the return of the Ontario legislature today when it’s set to resume after its winter break. The first order of business is expected to be a new piece of legislation containing promised health […]

THE CANADIAN PRESS

Nova Scotia, Northwest Territories and Northern Ontario improved to 3-1 with victories Monday morning at the Canadian women’s curling championship. Defending champion Kerri Einarson had the only unbeaten team at 3-0 with games against Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia later Monday. Northern Ontario’s Krista McCarville, who reached last year’s […]

By Liam Casey
THE CANADIAN PRESS

Hundreds of million of dollars are desperately needed to stabilize the home-care workforce in Ontario, the association representing organizations providing that care said as it urged the province to speed up delivery of promised funds. The province pledged in last year’s budget to spend $1-billion for better home care over […]

By Stephanie Taylor
THE CANADIAN PRESS

Justice Paul Rouleau says the Canada Border Services Agency made a bad situation worse when it mishandled the announcement of a vaccine mandate for truckers early last year, amid rampant anger and false information around the pandemic. Rouleau pointed out the agency’s mistake in his more than 2,000-page report released […]

By Christopher Kimball
THE CANADIAN PRESS

In Filipino homes, the smell that wakes up many families is not coffee brewing or bacon frying, but slices of garlic sizzling in oil. It’s for a fried rice known as sinangag, a way to use up the previous day’s rice by packing it chock-full of crisp, toasted garlic. Sliced […]