Fort Frances Times Online Edition - March 8, 2016

James Woods, a mental health worker with the Gizhewaadiziwin Health Access Centre here, spoke to participants at the “Women’s Wellness Day” event at Zion Lutheran Church this morning. Held in celebration of International Women’s Day, those on hand are learning new techniques for self-care, including art, movement, and mediation.

After emptying the gas tank to win their first game, Team Red had no time to refuel before its second one.

The result was a convincing 111-73 victory for first-place Team Black in Fort Frances Men’s Basketball League action last night at Fort High.

Team Red (6-9) missed its first 10 shots yet only trailed by six points after the first three minutes.

Peggy Loyie, executive director of the Rainy River District Victim Services Program, read out a list of words defining “community safety” this morning at La Place Rendez-Vous during a strategic planning session for Safe Communities Rainy River District. Safe Communities is seeking re-designation, with the strategic plan being part of that process.

Chris Silver and Erin Tomalty no longer have a zero in their career OFSAA win column.

Silver, skipping the first Muskie boys’ rink to reach the all-Ontarios since 2011, edged the Frank J. Hayden Huskies (Burlington) 5-4 in their only game yesterday.

Accompanied by The No. 2-seeded rink in Pool ‘D,’ the Muskies were up two coming home without hammer.

TORONTO—Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne denies a $6,000-a-head dinner co-sponsored with a high-powered lobbying firm is selling access to herself and her cabinet ministers.

Wynne said it’s her responsibility as a leader of a party to raise money—calling it part of the democratic process—and pointing out that all political parties in Ontario do both “high-end and low-end” fundraising.

OTTAWA—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appears poised to reap the benefits of some climate groundwork laid by the previous Conservative government when he travels to Washington on a state visit this week.

OTTAWA—Two members of Parliament with dramatically different political affiliations have joined forces in an effort to establish a national strategy to deal with dementia.

WASHINGTON The bathroom scale may show a good number but how much of that weight is fat, not muscle? New studies are adding to the evidence that the scale doesn’t always tell the whole story when it comes to weight-related health risks.

TORONTO—The Maple Leafs keep losing—but not by much.

Toronto dropped its sixth-straight game with a 4-3 shootout loss to the Buffalo Sabres last night at Air Canada Centre that marked their fifth-consecutive one-goal defeat.

OTTAWA—Newfoundland and Labrador’s Brad Gushue appears to have everything in place to make a run at capturing that elusive Tim Hortons Brier title.

He has picked up some big wins this season and is skipping the top-ranked team in the country.

Gushue also is off to a great start at the national men’s curling championship and looks primed to be in the mix come playoff time.

DUNEDIN, Fla.—R.A. Dickey tossed three scoreless innings, and Michael Saunders hit his third homer in as many games, as the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Atlanta Braves 3-1 yesterday.

Dickey, the 2012 NL Cy Young Award winner, allowed one hit to Gordon Beckham to open the third.

The knuckleballer threw 31 pitches and walked just one.

LOS ANGELES Maria Sharapova’s tennis career and Olympic hopes are in jeopardy, and she claims it’s all because she failed to click on a link in an email that would have told her to stop taking meldonium.

WASHINGTON Calling a New York judge’s ruling “an unprecedented limitation” on judicial authority, the Justice Department has asked a Brooklyn federal court to reverse a decision that said Apple Inc. wasn’t required to pry open a locked iPhone.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Federal prosecutors in Alabama say a former armoured transportation company worker has agreed to plead guilty to stealing nearly $200,000, all in quarters.

The U.S. attorney’s office in Birmingham says 49-year-old Stephen Lancaster Dennis of Harpersville agreed to plead guilty to theft.

WASHINGTON U.S. airstrikes bombarded an al-Shabab training camp in Somalia Saturday, killing more than 150 militant fighters who were preparing to launch a large-scale attack, likely against African or U.S. personnel, the Pentagon said Monday.

WASHINGTON Can Donald Trump really make good on his promise to build a wall along the 2,000-mile (3,200-kilometre) U.S.-Mexican border to prevent illegal immigration? What’s more, can he make Mexico pay for it?

Sure, he can build it, but it’s not nearly as simple as he says.

PHOENIX A jury verdict against two polygamous towns in Arizona and Utah for discriminating against nonbelievers now puts the future of the communities in the hands of a judge who will have to remedy the sweeping civil rights violations.

DEBARY, Fla. The mayor of a central Florida city is planning to visit Cuba and return home on a makeshift raft so he can better understand what Cuban migrants go through when crossing the Florida Straits.

ANBERRA, Australia The U.S. Air Force will continue to fly daily missions over the South China Sea despite a buildup of Chinese surface-to-air missiles and fighter jets in the contested region, with both nations’ militaries in discussions to avoid any “miscalculation,” a top U.S. general said Tuesday.