Fort Frances Times Online Edition - January 23, 2018

Tessa Miner arranged pieces of coloured glass to design a suncatcher during a workshop with instructor Cher Pruys yesterday evening at From the Grind Up here. Pruys later will take the glass and fire it in a kiln, making a fused glass suncatcher for Miner to keep.

TORONTO—A new fossil species of bristle worm has been found at the 508-million-year-old Marble Canyon site in B.C.'s Kootenay National Park.

The worm, found by researchers from the Royal Ontario Museum and the University of Toronto, is called Kootenayscolex barbarensis.

TORONTO—Ontario landlords want the right to immediately ban the use of pot in rental properties when recreational weed is legalized this summer, arguing they should be allowed to change tenants' existing leases to stop the drug from being consumed in their units.

NEW YORK—Guillermo del Toro's lavish monster romance, “The Shape of Water," fished out a leading 13 nominations, Greta Gerwig became just the fifth woman nominated for best director, and "Mudbound” director of photography Rachel Morrison made history as the first woman nominated for best cinematography in nominations announced this morning for the 90th-annual Academy Awards.

DAVOS, Switzerland—Investing in Canada and women's rights were expected to be central themes of a speech by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

TORONTO—Ontario's finance minister has launched a series of public consultations to develop this year's provincial budget, which he suggests will be delivered earlier than usual because of the upcoming election.

BANFF, Alta.—An RCMP officer on a routine traffic stop in Banff, Alta. caught more than he expected on his car's dash camera.

The video, which shows the constable talking to a motorist, captured a cougar sneaking by a couple of metres away—in front of a grocery store.

It shows the officer briefly turning his head to look at the big cat.

VANCOUVER—A tsunami warning issued for coastal British Columbia was cancelled this morning after people living along parts of the province's coast evacuated to higher ground when a powerful earthquake struck off Alaska.

Residents in some coastal communities were woken by warning sirens shortly after the quake with a magnitude of 7.9 struck around 1:30 a.m. Pacific time.

More Canadians soon may be able to order their groceries online for delivery as the country's grocery wars heat up following Amazon's entry to the competitive space.

More Canadians may soon be able to order their groceries online for delivery as the country’s grocery wars heat up following Amazon’s entry to the competitive space.

MELBOURNE, Australia—An injured and visibly struggling Rafael Nadal retired while trailing in the fifth set of his Australian Open quarter-final match against Marin Cilic.

Tom Brady and the New England Patriots are going back to the Super Bowl in search of a sixth title.

They'll face a Philadelphia Eagles' team looking for their first Lombardi Trophy.

Brady led the Patriots (15-3) back from a 10-point, fourth-quarter deficit to beat the Jacksonville Jaguars 24-20 in the AFC championship game Sunday.

TORONTO—Colorado goalie Jonathan Bernier heard the Bronx cheers from the Air Canada Centre crowd last night.

He remembers listening to Toronto's fans giving him the same banter when he was a member of the Leafs as they struggled through the 2015-16 season.

“It's not as bad when you are the away team,” noted Bernier.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Spacewalking astronauts gave a hand to the International Space Station’s big robot arm Tuesday.

As the federal government geared back up 250 miles below, NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei and Scott Tingle floated outdoors to install the new mechanical gripper.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 8.2 struck off Alaska’s Kodiak Island early Tuesday, prompting a tsunami warning for a large swath of coastal Alaska and Canada’s British Columbia while the remainder of the U.S. West Coast was under a watch.

SEATTLE — SPAM, trout, fried chicken, moon pies and anything slathered in mayonnaise those are some of the flavours of South Korea’s home cooking that might seem just a bit familiar to the U.S. athletes and hordes of westerners preparing to descend upon the small Asian country for the 2018 Olympic Winter Games.

With Valentine’s Day looming, here’s an elegant entree that any basic cook can execute with ease. I’m talking about duck breasts with a five-ingredient sauce, the making of which requires all of 15 minutes of hands-on time.