Known as one of the greatest singers of all-time (#18 on Rolling Stone’s Top 100 List), Freddy Mercury and Queen quickly rose from obscurity to become one the top bands of all time. But it wasn’t always smooth sailing for front-man Mercury. This week’s headline new release, Bohemian Rhapsody, [Read more]
Join us for the 2019 Nipigon Ice Fest! Canada’s longest running, premiere ice climbing festival offers clinics including Beginners, Intermediate, & Mixed climbing! After a great day of climbing, warm up with the locals at a casual “summit” and get inspired with presentations by outdoor [Read more]
TERRACE BAY, ON – FAMILY SKI DAY is back again at the Terrace Bay Ski Hill! Enjoy a free Ski Lift Pass Monday, February 18 for the full day (12:30pm to 4:30pm). There are ski and snowboard rentals offered at the hill, please note there are fees for rentals (not included with ski lift [Read more]
Version française ci-dessous It’s no secret that the cost of just getting by is going up for Canadians. Even when we find a little relief on one front, it seems there is another way to make life more expensive to counteract that. That’s why more than half of Canadians are $200 or [Read more]
MARATHON, ON -On Saturday February 9, 2019 at approximately 06:00pm, members of the Marathon Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) detachment responded to a report of a motor vehicle collision (MVC), involving a tractor trailer unit (TTU) on Highway 17, approximately 40km west of Marathon near the [Read more]
Ontario Celebrating Family, Fishing and the Great Outdoors TORONTO, ON — Ontario’s Government for the People invites families to participate in free fishing on the Family Day weekend. From February 16 to 18, Canadian residents of all ages can enjoy fishing in Ontario without having to [Read more]
THUNDER BAY, ON – Lakehead University’s Dr. Kathryn Sinden is receiving $100,534 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research for a study that will assist firefighters who experience post-traumatic stress injury while on the job in Thunder Bay. Dr. Sinden, assistant professor in [Read more]
Christmas may have come and gone, but the surly antics of the Grinch are just getting started. The green skinned, Christmas-hating fellow is back on the big screen in the most recent adaptation of the popular holiday tale. The Grinch is our headline new release in a week that also marks the debut [Read more]
MARATHON, ON – On February 3, 2019 at approximately 6:00 a.m. officers of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Marathon detachment received a call regarding a motor vehicle collision on Highway 627 involving a possible impaired driver. Officers attended the area and located a white 2005 Chevy [Read more]
MARATHON, ON – On February 3, 2019 at approximately 1:15 a.m. officers of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Marathon detachment conducted a RIDE on the Pic Mobert Road. A Dodge Caravan entered the RIDE and the male driver was suspected to be under the influence of alcohol. The driver [Read more]
TORONTO, ON – Ontario residents check your LOTTO 6/49 tickets! A ticket sold in Owen Sound has won the LOTTO 6/49 jackpot for the Saturday, February 2, 2019 draw. The ticket is worth $33,396,099.00. There were some other great wins across the province: The Guaranteed $1 Million [Read more]
Are you a small municipality with no policy analyst on staff but you need to prepare an analysis of trends in taxable property growth? Join the Northern Analyst Cooperative. A local indigenous community looking to build a community profile? Join the Northern Analyst Cooperative. A large [Read more]
SCHREIBER, ON – The Holy Angels Kindergarten students wanted to know why do we have to brush our teeth? So they learned from our friends the Storybots, and Annie and Moby from Brain Pop Jr. about the bacteria and plaque in their mouths. They learned that to keep their mouths and teeth healthy [Read more]
SCHREIBER, ON – Recently, Holy Angels Catholic school celebrated their love for reading. Staff and students gathered in their School Families and read the book, Enemy Pie. Students enjoyed a “book tasting” where they talked about their likes, dislikes, and favourite parts; they [Read more]
The long awaited update to the Canada Food Guide has arrived and it bears little resemblance to its predecessor. In many ways the guide is catching up to the leaps in research that have increasingly singled out highly processed food and sugar as drivers of the obesity epidemic and the growth in [Read more]
