Staff

Tickets for the Fort Frances Sports Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony banquet tickets are on sale now at Taggs Source for Sports. Tickets are $50 per person and can be purchased by cash or cheque. Organizers say that inductees and their families have already had the first crack at tickets […]

By Daniel Adam
Staff Writer
dadam@fortfrances.com

Riverside Health Care is looking for volunteers to help with their Meals on Wheels program this summer. As a part of their lunch-hour superhero initiative, they are seeking delivery drivers. “We are reaching out to local businesses to see if there would be a group of staff or teams that […]

By Ken Kellar
Staff writer
kkellar@fortfrances.com

Canada Day celebrations this year might not look like they have in years past, but the Fun in the Sun Committee is still working hard to host an event for the entire family to enjoy. Committee chair Cynthia Woodland shared that due to the flood conditions in and around the […]

By Laura Osman
THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will embark on a round-the-world tour next week to meet with global leaders for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, G7 and NATO summits. The Prime Minister’s Office says he will endeavour to strengthen key international partnerships with an eye to defending peace, security, […]

By Matthew Brown And Lindsay Whitehurst
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) – Montana’s largest city restarted its water plant Thursday after shutting it down amid record flooding that’s caused widespread damage in Yellowstone National Park and surrounding communities. Residents in ravaged areas, meanwhile, cleaned up from the mess and braced for the economic fallout while the park remains […]

By Frank Jordans
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BERLIN (AP) – Rich countries including the European Union and the United States have pushed back against efforts to put financial help for poor nations suffering the devastating effects of global warming firmly on the agenda for this year’s U.N. climate summit. Observers and campaigners attending a ten-day preparatory meeting […]

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tesla billionaire Elon Musk is due to meet with Twitter employees Thursday in an apparent effort to assuage concerns about his $44 billion deal to acquire the social platform. Musk reached a deal to acquire Twitter in April, but he has clashed with the company repeatedly since then. Musk said […]

THE CANADIAN PRESS

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is scheduled to deliver a keynote address about the Canadian economy in downtown Toronto this afternoon. Freeland’s speech comes as Canadians have been feeling the effects of stubbornly high inflation, as well as rising interest rates. Last month, Statistics Canada reported the inflation rate for April […]

By Sadaf Ahsan
THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO – Netflix is launching a development program for diverse Canadian writers in film and television. The streamer’s head of global TV announced the initiative – dubbed Advancing Voices: Netflix Canada Creator Program – at the Banff World Media Festival on Tuesday. Bela Bejaria says seven writers from underrepresented groups […]

By Larry Neumeister
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK (AP) – Lawyers for British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell urged leniency at sentencing, asking a judge Wednesday to disregard a probation department recommendation of a 20-year prison term for her sex trafficking conviction and role in financier Jeffrey Epstein’s sex abuse of teenage girls. They said in court papers […]

By Arnie Stapleton
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

DENVER (AP) – The Tampa Bay Lightning weren’t the ones who looked like the two-time defending champions in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final on Wednesday night. The Colorado Avalanche, playing for the first time in nine nights, raced to 2-0 and 3-1 leads in the first period by […]