COVID-19 cases have fallen off in most of Southwestern Ontario, but the death toll and the number of people infected have risen sharply recently in a largely rural two-county area near London. Read More
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Oxenden’s Julian Smith raced earlier this month in Canmore for the first time after being sidelined for 19 months amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Smith skied in two early-season training races at the Canmore Nordic Centre on Frozen Thunder. The Frozen Thunder track is a two-kilometre ski track made with snow stored under sawdust from the […]
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