Fort Frances Times Online Edition - February 16, 2016

Camron Oster, left, and his sister, Jordyn, got ready to speed down the snowhill yesterday during the Alberton recreation committee’s 15th-annual winter fun day at the Millennium Park there. Fun Family Day activities also were going on in Fort Frances, Emo, Barwick, and elsewhere in the district.

Both Muskie hockey teams came away victorious over their upcoming NorWOSSA semi-final opponents, but in two very different ways.

The girls’ squad routed the Warriors 14-0 on Sunday for their 10th-straight league win.

The enthusiasm was noticeable among those who pulled out from the starting point on Eighth Street here Saturday morning as the Borderland Snowmobile Club held a poker run to Emo and back. About 15 sledders took part, with the club planning to stage more such runs in the coming weeks.

MONTREAL—A Quebec police constable who died in the line of duty has been remembered by friends as a go-to guy who always was ready to lend an ear.

“In my heart, I lost a brother,” Simon Villeneuve said of his friend, Thierry Leroux, who was shot Saturday night as he and another officer responded to a domestic call.

OTTAWA—To hear Ban Ki-Moon tell it, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s rapprochement with the United Nations was nothing short of the return of the prodigal son.

OTTAWA—The number of missing and murdered indigenous women across the country is “way bigger” than 1,200, Indigenous Affairs minister Carolyn Bennett said yesterday.

Her comments came as the government marked the end of a consultation process with the families of victims as it prepares to establish a public inquiry into these losses.

SACO, Maine America’s lobster industry is sending less of its catch to Canada as processing grows in New England, and the growth could have widespread ramifications for consumers who are demanding more lobster products every year.

WASHINGTON From the cacophony of day care to the buzz of TV and electronic toys, noise is more distracting to a child’s brain than an adult’s, and new research shows it can hinder how youngsters learn.

TORONTO—The Golden State Warriors are chasing history.

Everyone else in the NBA is chasing them.

The defending champs have been so dominant that they already could be a 50-win team this weekend.

And unless opponents start figuring out a way to slow Stephen Curry and the league’s most potent offence, they could be the best team ever by the time they’re done.

CHICAGO—The sell-out crowd chanted “M-V-P! M-V-P!” and Patrick Kane cracked a wry grin.

It was a sweet ending to a difficult homestand for the Chicago Blackhawks.

Kane had a goal and three assists as the Blackhawks stopped a three-game slide with a dominant 7-2 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs last night.

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of South Korea’s president warned Tuesday that rival North Korea faces collapse if it doesn’t abandon its nuclear bomb program, an unusually strong broadside that will likely infuriate Pyongyang.

NEW YORK After all these years, Uno is still No. 1.

More than 2,700 dogs entered in the Westminster Kennel Club show that started Monday, with a couple of clear favourites. Rumor the German shepherd and Charlie the Skye terrier head the pack, and could be picked as the nation’s top pooch.

A borzoi, a shih tzu and bulldog took winning steps, too.

SANTIAGO, Chile—Scientists say an estimated 150,000 Adelie penguins have been wiped out on Antarctica’s Cape Denison in the five years since a giant iceberg blocked their main access to food.

A tarantula named after singer Johnny Cash is among 14 new species identified by scientists who spent a decade collecting the hairy spiders and studying nearly 3,000 of them.

The spider doesn’t sing, but it’s black and can be found near the California prison that was the setting of Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues.”

SANTIAGO, Chile Scientists say an estimated 150,000 Adelie penguins have been wiped out on Antarctica’s Cape Denison in the five years since a giant iceberg blocked their main access to food.

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