Fort Frances Time Online Edition - February 3, 2017

Local art therapist Lindsay Hamilton was sorting through magazine clippings for collage-making this morning as part of an art project in Christa Gibson's Grade 8 class at Robert Moore School. She was to work with other classes throughout the day.

Kiss My Pass and No Diggity matched each other with the maximum six points last night as they remained locked in a battle for second place in the Fort Frances Women's Volleyball League.

Kiss My Pass now has 72 points to lead No Diggity by just one.

Both trail league-leading How I Set Your Mother, who still sit on top with 83 points.

Bryce Kabatay performed “Bist du Bei Mir” by Johann Sebastian Bach during the Rainy River District Festival of the Performing Arts' talent show yesterday evening at Knox United Church here. The third-annual event was a fundraiser for the festival.

If any other NorWOSSA team plans to dethrone the Muskie girls' hockey team, they're going to have to win at least one playoff game on Fort Frances ice.

Annalise (CC) Hayes had a hat trick and an assist as the Muskies dumped the Sioux Lookout Warriors 8-2 yesterday afternoon at the Ice For Kids Arena.

Angela Petsnick was so overwhelmed with her team's change of fortune, she virtually was speechless afterwards.

“I'm still trying to process this,” Petsnick grinned about the Muskie junior boys' basketball team finally earning its first NorWOSSA win of the season with a 45-43 thriller over the visiting Kenora Broncos yesterday.

Muskie Alex Spuzak played the role of set-up specialist for the junior girls' volleyball team yesterday in its 3-1 victory over the Kenora Broncos in NorWOSSA action at Fort High.

OTTAWA—Public Safety minister Ralph Goodale says the government is trying to ensure Canadian dual-nationals still can use their Nexus trusted-traveller cards at the border following word that cards have been revoked.

TORONTO—Ontario's elementary school teachers and education workers have agreed to extend their contracts by two years, leaving the Liberal government nearly free of teacher negotiations ahead of the next election.

OTTAWA—About two-thirds of people who call the federal government for help with their employment insurance claims get turned away by a busy message while the rest face long periods on hold before they speak to an agent, a new report says.

OTTAWA—The New Democrats called him a liar. He can't be trusted, echoed the Conservatives.

And the leader of the Green Party said he left the country's young people disillusioned and weeping.

PLYMPTON-WYOMING, Ont.—Nearly 4,000 pigs were killed when a fire destroyed a large barn in southwestern Ontario earlier this week.

The OPP said the blaze broke out just before 9 a.m. on Tuesday and quickly spread throughout the barn in the town of Plympton-Wyoming, east of Sarnia.

At the time of the fire, the barn held about 4,000 pigs, all of which were killed.

TORONTO—A Toronto mother says her disabled daughter is still traumatized more than a week after being forgotten on board a school bus and left in the cold for six hours.

Laura Mastache said her daughter, Wendy, who has both autism and epilepsy, has been noticeably more reserved and withdrawn since the incident Jan. 23.

OTTAWA—Conservative leadership candidate Kevin O'Leary says he took down an Internet video of himself firing automatic weapons out of “respect” for the memorial to three of the six victims of the weekend massacre at a Quebec City mosque.

The video depicted O'Leary firing a variety of high-powered weapons—including machine guns and an assault rifle—during a visit to a Miami gun range.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.—Matt Kuchar hardly looked like a guy coming off a seven-week break yesterday in the first round of the Waste Management Phoenix Open.

Kuchar eagled the par-five 13th, then added two late birdies and a big par save on the rowdy par-three 16th hole, in an opening seven-under 64 at TPC Scottsdale.

“It was so nice to be home,” Kuchar said.

PHILADELPHIA—Justin Bieber's biggest smash hit may have been the one Chris Pronger gave him during the all-star weekend.

Is it too late for Pronger to say sorry?

Well, Pronger, one of the NHL's greatest defenceman, certainly won't apologize for the smackdown he delivered on Bieber that became a social media sensation because of a photo by the AP's Mark J. Terrill.

DALLAS—Mark Scheifele has hurt the Dallas Stars even more than the other teams in the Central Division.

Scheifele scored two more goals against Dallas and narrowly missed two others, propelling the Winnipeg Jets to a 4-3 victory last night.

At the other end, Jets' goalie Ondrej Pavelec made a season-high 39 saves.

HOUSTON—When you play for the Patriots, being selfish is not an option.

And no other group may be a greater example of that this season than the trio of running backs New England will lean on Sunday in its Super Bowl matchup with the Atlanta Falcons.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—Tiger Woods withdrew from the Dubai Desert Classic today with back spasms after shooting an opening-round 77 a day earlier.

It marks another frustrating start to his return to golf from a lengthy injury layoff.

Woods' manager, Mark Steinberg, said Woods had back spasms after dinner last night.

Look for increasing cloudiness tonight, with an overnight low of minus-19 C (two below zero F) that will feel more like minus-24 (11 below) with the windchill.

Tomorrow also will be cloudy and blustery, with a high of minus-seven (19) that will feel more like minus-16 (three) thanks to east winds gusting up to 35 m.p.h.