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Palliative care in Canada needs a new look, says a pair of experts who have watched the country’s health-care landscape drastically change along with an aging population.

A man and woman have been arrested and charged following a daylight robbery in the parking lot of a south-side grocery store Wednesday.

When 11-year-old Cassidy Takacs is flying down a racetrack in her dragster, winning is never at the top of her mind. "I feel all the wind coming to my lungs and I just focus on where I’m going," said the Grade 6 Nor’wester View Public School student.

Bruce Strapp says his first order of business as the new executive director of Northern Ontario Heritage Fund is to get to know his board of directors.

The creation of a new tourism organization does not mean the end of the North of Superior Tourism Association, says that association’s executive director.

A plan to build a residence for a local high school would keep students safe, says an education official.

The city has its new crime prevention council co-ordinator.

Port activity this year hasn’t been able to catch up with last year’s numbers, statistics show. Thunder Bay Port Authority figures for October show that 623,000 tonnes of cargo moved through the port last month.

Police in Kenora seized nine pounds of pot, 43 marijuana plants and more than $16,000 during a raid last week.

Paying to lobby the government is just the cost of doing business, says the president of Thunder Bay Hydro.