While it may still be fall yet, winter is on its way — and with it, winter sports!

Many human resources departments are incorporating criminal background checks into their hiring processes – but what happens if a screening turns up a prior record?

Sports associations are a staple of Canadian life. Whether it’s hockey, lacrosse, skiing in the winter, soccer or baseball in the summer, basketball, and beyond, sports teams make up a big part of our culture – particularly when it comes to childhood.

Chief of Thunder Bay Police Service J. P. Levesque announced Wednesday the Thunder Bay Police have adopted a new electronic process for assisting in the completion of police record checks.

The Brockville Police Service is offering an electronic process for doing criminal record checks, but also has the option to going to station on Parkedale Avenue.