Quiet on fire scene
No new fires were reported in the Northwest Region over the weekend, and this quiet time is allowing for FireRangers and staff to continue with mandatory annual training and skills updates.
The fire hazard is “low” across the region, except for the far north sector of Sioux Lookout District, where it is “moderate.”
Man drowns
On Thursday around 4:30 p.m., Atikokan OPP officers responded to a call for assistance on Marmion Lake.
A 63-year-old Missouri man, who had entered the water to retrieve a boat, subsequently went underwater and did not surface.
Muskies go winless
They went with dreams but had to settle for coming home with only moral victories.
The Muskie girls’ and boys’ soccer teams both went 0-4 at the OFSAA ‘AA’ championships in North Bay and Kingsville, respectively.
Empey cracks top 20
Let it never be said that Jacob Empey didn’t give it his best.
The Muskie athlete notched a new personal best in finishing 20th in the senior boys’ long jump at the OFSAA track and field championships Saturday in Windsor.
Empey’s top leap measured at 5.69m—one centimetre better than his gold medal-winning jump at the NWOSSAA championships May 25 in Thunder Bay.
Out at first
Whitney Guimond of the Couchiching Lady Raiders was in full stride but still a bit late reaching first base as Caylee Woolsey of the visiting Fort Frances Her-icanes caught the throw from third baseman Dana Ward during yesterday’s Rainy River District Women’s Fastball League makeup game at the Rodrick and Telford Bruyere Ball Field.
Dollars for dogs
A small but dedicated group of dog-lovers took a riverfront stroll with their pooches yesterday afternoon for the 11th-annual “Purina Walk for Dog Guides” organized by the Fort Frances Voyageur Lions Club.
Back on the air but not back home
FORT McMURRAY, Alta.—From the streetfront window of rock station 100.5 Cruz FM in downtown Fort McMurray, program director Andrew Wilcox can see the forested hill where his home still stands in the fire-scarred Abasand neighbourhood.
Under the original government re-entry plan, Wilcox would have been able to return Saturday to the house he shares with two roommates.
Calgary Muslims remember Ali
CALGARY—Members of Calgary’s Muslim community yesterday remembered Muhammad Ali as a great champion of their religion, human rights, and social justice.
The gathering of about 60 at the city’s Green Dome Mosque joined in a wave of global memorials for the boxing champion and citizen of the world, who died Friday at age 74.
Expert slams assisted dying law
OTTAWA—Canada’s foremost constitutional authority predicts the federal government’s proposed new law on medically-assisted dying will be struck down by the courts as unconstitutional.
Sunny—and funny—ways at Press Gallery dinner
GATINEAU, Que.—Federal party leaders put down their swords to celebrate those who wield the pens and microphones Saturday night.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose, and NDP leader Tom Mulcair all spoke at a dinner honouring 150 years of the parliamentary press gallery.
Products recalled
OTTAWA—Certain President’s Choice brand and Basse brand products containing sunflower seeds are being recalled due to possible Listeria contamination.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is warning against the consumption of the products, which were sold nationally.
When to give up: Treatment or comfort for late-stage cancer?
CHICAGO — Two months before Joe Clark died of colon cancer at age 31, a doctor gently told him it was time to stop treatment.
Warriors hammer Cavs to lead 2-0
OAKLAND, Calif.—Kevin Love lay on the court grabbing the back of his head after taking an elbow from Harrison Barnes.
The Cleveland Cavaliers’ forward tried to gut it out before pulling himself from the game.
But the woozy Love wasn’t the only Cavalier who looked to be a daze as the Golden State Warriors may have delivered the knockout blow in the NBA Finals, as well.
‘Slam’ for Djokovic
PARIS—A French Open champion at long last, and the first man in nearly a half-century to win four-consecutive major championships, Novak Djokovic grabbed a racket and etched a heart in the very red clay that had given him such heartache in the past.
NPR journalist David Gilkey, translator killed on assignment
WASHINGTON — David Gilkey, a veteran news photographer and video editor for National Public Radio, and an Afghan translator, Zabihullah Tamanna, were killed while on assignment in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, the network says.
Obama administration rushing to shrink ranks at Guantanamo
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is running out of time and options to close the Guantanamo Bay detention centre in Cuba, so officials are scrambling to release as many prisoners as possible and considering novel legal strategies that include allowing some men to strike plea deals by video-teleconference.
West Virginia residents charged with trying to sell baby
LAYLAND, W.Va. — Authorities in West Virginia say a man and woman have been arrested on charges that they tried to sell the woman’s baby.
Trump says he made ‘a lot of money’ in deal with Gadhafi
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Donald Trump says he made “a lot of money” in a deal years ago with Moammar Gadhafi, despite suggesting at the time he had no idea the former Libyan dictator was involved in renting his suburban New York estate.