Local News from Across the Rainy River District
TORONTO – Ontario students will return to school classrooms on Jan. 17, Premier Doug Ford’s office told The Canadian Press. The government had previously said schools would move to online learning until “at least” that date amid widespread transmission of the Omicron variant, but the premier’s office now says they […]
It may feel like life is as frozen as the Hallett is right now, between plunging temperatures and COVID restrictions putting regular public events on ice. However, school will be heading back as planned on Monday, with the remainder of restrictions scheduled to lift as early as January 26. Even […]
A few members of the Canadian Armed Forces are on the ground in Bearskin Lake First Nation in northern Ontario to assist the community amid a COVID-19 outbreak that has infected half of its population. A spokeswoman for federal Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair said four Rangers are there to […]
TORONTO – New school guidance from the Ontario government says that only certain students and teachers who show symptoms of COVID-19 will have access to PCR tests when schools reopen to in-person learning next week. The Ministry of Health document says take-home PCR self-collection kits will only be provided to […]
TORONTO – Ontario is reporting 3,220 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 and 477 people in intensive care. There are 250 patients on ventilators due to COVID-19. Twenty-one new virus-related deaths were reported. The province reported 7,951 new cases, but Public Health Ontario says the real number is likely higher due to […]
Josie (Wood) Ireland, 41, of Fort Frances, Ont., passed away on Tuesday, January 4, 2022, at the La Verendrye General Hospital. A complete obituary will follow.
OTTAWA – A new poll suggests a slim majority of Canadians support the latest round of lockdowns and other government-imposed restrictions as the Omicron variant continue to fuel an explosion in new COVID-19 infections. Fifty-six per cent of respondents in the poll conducted by Leger and the Association of Canadian […]
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden will use a speech in Georgia to endorse changing Senate filibuster rules that have stalled voting rights legislation, saying it’s time to choose “democracy over autocracy.” But some civil rights groups won’t be there, in protest of what they say is administration inaction. Biden […]
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – The Taliban have released a popular university professor and outspoken critic of successive Afghan governments who was arrested over the weekend, a family member said Tuesday. Hasina Jalal, Faizullah Jalal’s daughter, said her father was freed from Taliban custody. The group had accused him of “nonsense […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Phillip Danault, Blake Lizotte and Adrian Kempe scored in the Los Angeles Kings’ 3-1 win over the New York Rangers on Monday night. Trevor Moore had two assists and Cal Petersen made 22 saves for the Kings, who have won four of five. Mika Zibanejad had […]
POTSDAM, Germany (AP) – German prosecutors will drop an animal cruelty investigation into an athlete and a coach who were shown striking a horse during the Olympic modern pentathlon last year. The investigation will be dropped once athlete Annika Schleu and coach Kim Raisner have paid an agreed sum to […]
