Broncos lose to the Buckeyes

Beaver Brae's Football team has lost its first game of the year.

The Broncos were trounced 48-16 by the Miles MacDonnell Buckeyes Friday afternoon in their homecoming game.

Coach Chris Penner says the Buckeyes are pretty good football team.

Jared Davis had a pair of touchdowns for the Broncos and also had a 55 yard kick-off return and an interception.

Beaver Brae's next game is against Dakota Collegiate next Friday in Winnipeg.

Sioux Lookout Drug Bust

The Kenora Joint Forces Drug Unit has arrested a 30 year old Toronto man following a drug bust in the Town of Sioux Lookout.

The OPP say they seized 34 thousand dollars worth of oxycontin pills, cocaine and  45 hundred dollars in cash yesterday from a hotel room in the community.

Costy Dessource faces two counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking and possession of property obtained by crime.

Residential School payment deadline passes

The head of the residential schools commission says some survivors are frustrated because they can't get papers needed to back up their claim.

Justice Murray Sinclair its because many government and church documents may have been destroyed.

The deadline was Monday for the so-called common experience payment which recognizes the impact of living at a residential school.

Sinclair says those who didn't file by the deadline are out of luck.

Northern Leaders Debate tackles Kenora's Bridges

Kenora's bridges are just one of the issues being discussed this morning in the northern leaders debate.

NDP Leader Andrea Horwath is promising to provide more infrastructure money to municipalities and upload social service costs.

Conservative leader Tim Hudak is promising more gas tax revenues for municipalities so they can fix up their aging infrastructure.

Premier Dalton McGuinty decided to skip the northern leaders debate and instead made a mental health funding announcement north of Toronto.

Hospital Unions Launch Hotline

Ontario's party leaders are being asked to address the shortage of acute care beds in local hospitals.

The Ontario Council of Hospital Unions says its concerned with the number of elderly who are forced to stay in hospital while waiting for a long term care bed to open up.

Local union spokesperson, Judy Bain says opening more beds is only part of the solution.

The Council has launched its own hotline so family members can report their own experiences with the health care system.

Tresspasser charged with impaired driving

A 20 year old Kenora man faces impaired driving charges afte being pulled over by the OPP near Strecker Road.

Police were called out after an area resident reported that someone was tresspassing on their property.

The OPP say stopped a vehicle with three men inside.

Officers say the driver appeared to have been drinking and failed a roadside breath test.

He is due to appear in Kenora court November 3rd to answer the charge.

Rainy River Resources Moves to TSX

Rainy River Resources is moving to the Toronto Stock Exchange.

The company has received conditional approval to move from TSX's Venture Exchange to the main board in early October.

President Raymond Threlkeld says the move will give the company more visibility to potential investors world-wide.

Saints take three of four from Ignace

Not quite a clean sweep for the Thomas Aquinas Saints boys volleyball and Girls Basketball teams.

T.A. took three of four games from Ignace Thursday afternoon.

Falcons senior girls beat the Saints for the first time since 1998, with a 35-34 nailbiter.

Samantha Burkhart had 15 points in a losing cause.

The T.A. junior girls held on for a 30-26 victory.

In volleyball action, the Thomas Aquinas junior and senior teams had an easy time with the Falcons, each winning in three straight games.

This weekend, Beaver Brae and Thomas Aquinas are hosting the Kenora Invitational Junior boys volleyball tournament.

Broncos face Buckeyes this afternoon

Beaver Brae's football team will try to improve to 2-0 today in the Winnipeg High School Football League.

The Broncos are playing their first home game of the season this afternoon as they take on the Miles MacDonnell Buckeyes.

Today is also Beaver Brae's Homecoming game.

Game time is 3:00 at Pete Fair Memorial Field.

Doctors Without Borders Canada

The founder of Doctors Without Borders Canada sees similarities between remote first nation communities and the third world.
Dr. Richard Heinzl says more needs to be done to help aboriginal communities who don't have clean drinking water.

Heinzl spoke at Confederation College last night.

NOMA

The Ontario Liberals aren't getting heat from Northwestern municipal and forestry leaders. That's even though the party didn't address a majority of forestry concerns in an pre-election survey. NOMA's Ron Nelson says the answers simply form a base for the future

The Liberals didn't answer 12 of the 13 questions asked. Nelson hopes the parties will clarify some of their answers before the election.

Northern Ontario Leaders Debate

Thunder Bay takes centre stage today as it hosts the first ever Northern Ontario Leaders Debate.

Chief Operating Officer of the Northwestern Ontario Associated Chambers of Commerce, Harold Wilson

says they'll be asking a number of questions to the party leaders.

The NDP's Andrea Horwath and PC's Tim Hudak will square off at 11 today

Confederation College

Three part time support staff workers at Confederation College say they haven’t been back to school since the strike ended. They’re claiming to have lost there jobs because they didn’t cross picket lines when their full time co-workers were bargaining a new contract. Part time support staff isn’t represented by OPSEU but the local president says the union is trying to help those affected by this week's move.