Local News from Across the Rainy River District
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AP) – The three white men charged in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery had no right to claim self-defense because they were the ones who provoked a confrontation with the 25-year-old Black man while he was running in his neighborhood, a prosecutor told jurors in her final closing […]
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) – Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa have called for increased cooperation to bring peace to conflict-ridden regions in Africa, at the start of the Kenyan leader’s two-day state visit to South Africa. Meeting in Pretoria Tuesday, the two leaders discussed the […]
LAVAL, Que. – Decorated Canadian diver Jennifer Abel has announced her retirement. An Olympic silver and bronze medallist, the 30-year- old from Laval. Que., also won 10 world championship medals, the most by any Canadian diver. Abel and Melissa Citrini-Beaulieu won synchronized springboard silver at the Tokyo Olympics in August. […]
LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers has been suspended for one game and Detroit’s Isaiah Stewart was suspended two games for their roles in an ugly incident during Sunday’s Lakers-Pistons game. The NBA announced the suspensions Monday, and both will affect games on Tuesday. James will not play when […]
Ontario high schools will shift back to regular semesters no later than February, returning secondary students to a normal schedule for the first time since the onset of the pandemic. School boards will be able to make the change sooner if they have their local public health unit’s support, Education […]
Salvation Army Corps Officer Arthur Heathcoate stands behind the counter at the thrift store’s new location, at 240 Scott Street. The location is open to the public starting today, with donations accepted at the back of the shop daily after 1 p.m. The location was recently home to Tagg’s Source […]
TORONTO – Children aged five to 11 in Ontario will be eligible to book COVID-19 vaccine appointments starting Tuesday. Health Minister Christine Elliott said the province is set to receive a little over 400,000 vaccine doses from the federal government on Monday, followed by another shipment of a little over […]
ORILLIA, Ont. – The province says it is expanding a training program to help those looking for work in a different field. Ontario says there are 300,000 jobs available right now, but the province needs more workers to fill those roles. Premier Doug Ford says with the Second Career Program […]
TORONTO – A new audit has found the Ontario government ignored the public’s rights to consultation on environmentally significant decisions. The auditor general’s annual report on the environment found the Ministry of the Environment and several others deliberately avoided consulting the public on such decisions. Ontarians’ rights to public information […]
TORONTO – The Toronto District School Board is granting temporary exemptions for roughly 290 unvaccinated staff who otherwise would be placed on administrative leave until it can find temporary staff to fill the positions. In a memo sent to families, the school board says it continues to implement its COVID-19 […]
OTTAWA – Members of Parliament return to the House of Commons today for the first time in five months. It’s a new Parliament that looks almost identical to the old one, after an election Sept. 20 that saw only a handful of seats change hands and gave Justin Trudeau’s Liberals […]
