One person is dead following an industrial accident at the Boise mill in International Falls.
International Falls Police and Ambulance personnel were called to the mill at about 11 a.m. yesterday where a man was found unresponsive and was later pronounced dead.
Some reports suggest the man was outside contractor doing work in the lime recovery kiln.
His identify has not been released.
Two Fort Frances councillors are among the latest to seek re-election this October.
Andrew Hallikas is hoping to continue the work started by the current council.
"Council worked very well together," says Hallikas. "I think in our term we accomplished a lot and I'm hoping everyone from council runs again. I like working with this group of people."
Ken Perry, who joined council mid-way through this term in a by-election, believes he brings a strong voice for residents to the council table.
"I like to do my research," says Perry. "I like to know what I'm talking about when I'm talking and make a decision that sometimes everyone doesn't agree with, but if anybody asks me why I did what I did or make the decision that I did, I've always a good reason for doing it."
Paul Ryan remains the only Fort Frances councillor yet to file nomination papers.
Elsewhere, Ross Donaldson has refiled for councillor in the township of LaVallee.
He joins incumbent Freeda Carmody and newcomer Harold Kellar on the October 10 ballot so far in that community.
The management of Lake of the Woods and Rainy Lake watersheds will be the focus of meetings this week that begin tonight in International Falls.
Melanie Hanson, the Canadian co-chair to an international task force, says they'll be looking at issues effecting the waters and the efforts now being done to protect them.
"We'll be examining the current governance structures," says Hanson, "such as different boards, different committees and multi-agency arrangements. Any example where the two countries are working together to address water resource issues."
Tonight's meeting is at the AmericINN beginning at 7 p.m.
NDP leader Jack Layton is floating a last-minute compromise to save the long-gun registry.
Layton wants to introduce legislation that would address some of the complaints about the registry and potentially stave off a final vote on a private member's bill that would kill the program altogether.
The bill passed second reading last fall in a narrow vote that saw eight Liberals and 12 New Democrats, including Thunder Bay-Rainy River's John Rafferty, siding with the Tories.
Wednesday is the deadline the Ontario government set for licence extensions because of the DriveTest strike last year.
People who needed to take driving tests to requalify for their licences were stuck when examiners walked off the job.
The examiners went back to work in early January but motorists were given until September 1st to book a test.
(Dorothy Gamie (l.) and Mical Collition receive their bursaries - photo from Riverside Foundation for Health Care) Two students, currently working in the local health care system, are recipients of bursaries from the Riverside Foundation for Health Care.
Mical Collition was awarded the James and Ena McAughren Bursary for the Continuing Education of Nurses.Currently a RPN at La Verendrye Heath Centre, Collition is enrolled in Lakehead University's Bachelor of Science nursing program at Confederation College in Fort Frances.
Dorothy Gamie was awarded a five hundred dollar Riverside Health Care Bursary.Gamie is a cook at Emo Health Centre and is enrolled in in the Food Service and Nutrition Management Program through the Canadian Healthcare Association.
Greg Rickford is getting some new parliamentary duties.
The Conservative MP for Kenora is taking over as the parliamentary secretary for Official Languages.
It's his first official post within the Harper cabinet.
(Morson Bass International Photo)
Ontario Power Generation is looking at 2012 as a possible start of work to convert its coal-fired generating station to burn biomass fuel.
The province gave approval to the plan last week.
Station manager Ed Enge says they hope to use of as much of the existing infrastructure as possible.
"The conversion will leave the boiler and most of the infrastructure fairly well intact," says Enge, "but the coal receiving, handling and storage facilities will be abandoned. We will need new system for receiving wood pellets and storing them."
Enge says the project must also still be approved by OPG's board of directors.
Ontario students continue to make steady gains in reading, writing and math, but are still not meeting the provincial target for test scores.
That's according to the latest round of provincial testing, obtained by the Toronto Star in advance of their release this morning.
Overall, 68 per cent of students in Grades 3 and 6 are meeting the standards in reading, writing and math, but that's far from the provincial target of 75 per cent it hoped for in 2008.
