Broncos win on the Road

Beaver Brae's football team is off to a promising start to the season.

The Broncos crushed Maples on Friday 28-6, improving their record to 2-0 in the Winnipeg High

School Football League.

Beaver Brae's next test is Thursday at home against Kildonan East.

The Reivers are also unbeaten after two games. 

Thistles see first action of the season

It was a good weekend for the Kenora Triple "a" midget Thistles.

The Thistles were in Beausejour for a pre-season tournament.

The Kenora Midgets finished the tournament with a record of three wins and one loss.

They wrapped up the tournament with a 5-2 win over the Interlake Lightning yesterday.

Thomas Aquinas win KIVT

The Thomas Aquinas Saints won the Kenora Invitational Junior Boys Volleyball tournament over the weekend.

The tournament was played at both Beaver Brae and T.A. Friday and Saturday.

The Saints finished the round robin with a 10-2 record, and beat Whitefish Bay in two straight games in the semi-finals.

T.A. met up with Fort Frances in the final, and managed to beat the Muskies two games to one.

Treaty Three Opposes Far North Act

Grand Council Treaty Three has joined the ground swell of opposition against the Far North Act.

Grand Chief Diane Kelly says she's worried the provincial government is taking away some of the decision making over their traditional lands.

Kelly says aboriginal commities are the only growing population in the north and wants the provincial government to recognize their jurisdiction in the region.

She adds that the Toronto-based discussions and consultations on Bill 191 are not  appropriate for decisions that affect the far north.

She sugges bi-lateral talks take place between the Province Ontario and Treaty Three.

Three All-Candidate Forums in three days

Candidates running for Kenora city council are going to be busy next week.

Three all-candidate forums for mayor and council will take place over three days.

One week from today, the Kenora and District Chamber of Commerce will be holding a forum at the Super 8 motel.

That will be followed up a night later with a all-candidates forum with the Local Young
Business Professionals group at the Rotary Room in the Kenora Rec. Center.

And on Wednesday the 29th, the Kenora Seniors Coalition will be holding its own forum for the candidates in the same location the next morning.

The official vote in the municipal elections is October 25th, but vote by mail
ballots should be in the mailbox by the end of next week.

Strike at NOSM continues

Contract talks between the North Ontario School of Medicine and

the union representing more than 150 workers have broken off.

OPSEU local 677 says the talks collapsed yesterday after four

days of mediation.

The union says a bit of progress was made, but there's no word when talks might resume.

Outstanding issues include contracting out, transfers to alternate locations, hours of work, overtime and wages.

The administrative, technical and clerical staff work at campuses at Laurentian University in Sudbury and Lakehead University in Thunder Bay and satellite campuses in Timmins and Sault Ste. Marie.

OFAH weighs in Federal Gun Registry Vote

The Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters is disappointed that a number of NDP Members

of Parliament have reversed their decision to dismantle the federal long gun registry.

A vote on the registry is scheduled to be held this week on Parliament Hill.

Greg Ferrant is a spokesperson for the OFAH and says the issue is becoming a bit of a

political football.

Ferrant says the vote is too close to call, and isn't willing to predict is the private members

will to kill the long gun registry will pass or not.

Rickford ready for new session of Parliament

Members of Parliament go back to work today after a summer on the barbeque circuit.

Kenora M.P. Greg Rickford says it looks like its going to be a busy session.

In addition to a number of government bills on the agenda, Rickford says he'll be speaking out against a private members bill by Toronto area M.P. John McKay on corporate accountability.

Rickford adds that the other major vote this week will take place on Wednesday on the

federal long gun registry.

He says at this point the vote is too close to call.

NAN continues lobby effort against Far North Act

Northwestern Ontario First Nations say they will not recognize the Far North Act if it's passed by the provincial legislature.

Nishnawbe-Aski Nation Grand Chief Stan Beardy says the voices of First Nations people in Northern Ontario are being ignored.

The bill would block up to 42-percent of Ontario's land mass from development, protecting 225-thousand square kilometres of boreal forest.

Nishnawbe Aski Nation represents 49 First Nation communities in an area covering two thirds of the province.

Passage of Far North Act Delayed

The contraversial Far North Act still hasn't been passed into law.

Bill 191 was supposed to be up for third and final reading Thursday afternoon

at Queen's Park.

Kenora-Rainy River M.P. Howard Hampton says the vote never took place because there were just too many people demonstrating against the legislation.

Hampton believes the premier will try to ram the bill through this fall.

Hampton suggests the premier will try to bring the bill back for final passage

just before the Thanksgiving long weekend, when there will be less attention

on Queen's Park.

Rafferty to Oppose Federal Long Gun Registry

Thunder Bay-Rainy River M-P John Rafferty is standing firm on his position on the long-gun registry.

In a statement issued yesterday, Rafferty reiterated his decision to vote in favour of a Conservative private members bill that proposed to scrap the registry.

Rafferty says he's following the wishes of his constituents by doing so.

Richards Ready for Training Camp

The leaves are starting to fall, so that must mean NHL training camps are getting ready to open.

Players begin reporting to their teams today.

Mike Richards is the captain of the Philadelphia Flyers and says while the teams made a number of upgrades on defense, they will be sticking with the same goaltending tandem that go them through the play-offs.

Richards says they expect to make another strong play-off run again this year, after

coming within two games of winning the Stanley Cup in June.

Junior Boys Volleyball Tournament this weekend

The Beaver Brae and Thomas Aquinas junior boys volleyball teams get their first real tests this weekend.

The annual Kenora Invitation Volleyball tournament will be taking place at both the Beaver Brae and T.A. gyms.

The Broncos see their first action of the season at 1:00 against a Fort Frances split squad.

The Saints play their first game an hour later at 2:00 against the other Muskies split squad.

A total of seven teams are entered in the two day tournament.

Bronco Football Team Hits the Road

The schedule in the Winnipeg High School Football League is about to get tougher for the Beaver Brae Broncos.

The Broncos are in Winnipeg this afternoon for a game against the Maples Marauders.

Beaver Brae Head Coach Chris Penner says they should be able to the play with the teams from Winnipeg this year.

The Broncos opened the season with a 27-0 win over Dryden last week, while Maples lost their first game.  Game time is 3:00 at Maples Collegiate.

Terry Fox Run Turns 30

The Terry Fox Run turns 30 years old this year.

The annual run for cancer research will take Sunday starting at Valleyview School.

Laurine Goertzen is one of the organizers of the Kenora run and says the

event has been very successful over the years.

The Terry Fox Run will start Sunday morning at 9:00, with a barbeque to

follow at noon.

Goertzen says they are expecting about 400 participants this year.

Organizers gearing up for 2011 Allan Cup

Organizers of the 2011 Allan Cup Senior Hockey Championships says the event will have a significant economic impact on the City of Kenora.

The official launch for the event took place last night.

Frank Bastone is the marketing manager for the event and says the championships should have the same impact on the city that the National Midget Championships did a couple of years ago.

Bastone says ticket packages for the week long tournament will be going on sale shortly.

There is also a new website with information about the the event at http://www.allancupkenora2011.ca/

Exhance Income Bullish on Bearskin

Winnipeg-based Exchange Income says its excited about the future of the airline industry in Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario.

The company signed a letter of intent to purchase Bearskin Airlines this week.

President Michael Pyle explains why they targeted Bearskin.

Pyle says the Company has no interest in amalgamating Bearskin with its Manitoba airlines.

New Fire Hall gets more money

Kenora's Fire and Emergency Services Department will be getting a bit more funding to outfit the new fire hall on Barsky's Hill.

Council recently approved 188 thousand dollars for the fit and finish of the new facility.

Fire Chief Warren Brinkman says they had initially budgeted about 138 thousand dollars to finish the new fire hall.

Brinkman says so far, the nearly six million dollar project is pretty close to being on

budget.

The only real change is to the roof, at a cost of about 24 hundred dollars.

Speed Racing on Highway 71

A 20 year old Nestor Falls resident has lost the use of his car for a week.

The OPP say they pulled over a vehicle over the weekend on Highway 71 for speeding.

Officers say the car was travelling more than 50 kilometers in excess of the posted speed limit of 80 kilometers an hour.

Under new provincial regulations, that's considered speed racing and police can impound the vehicle for a week.

To make matters worse, the driver was found to be drinking and has been charged

with impaired driving.

Tobacco Free Grant for Nestor Falls

The Town of Sioux Narrows/Nestor Falls is just the second community in northwestern Ontario to receive funding from a provincial anti-tobacco strategy.

More than 100 of the Play, Live and Be Tobacco Free Grants have been handed out across
the province.

Nestor Falls will be using the funding to help stage their annual Triple P race.

The race involves biking, running and canoing.

The inaugural Triple P fun race took place this past July at Bass Lake Park and attracted
participants and volunteers from across northwestern Ontario.

Organizers will get a cheque for 500 dollars for the event.