Mia Rabson The Canadian Press OTTAWA–Jo-Anne Miner, a personal support worker at an Ottawa long-term care home, was the first in the city to receive the COVID-19 vaccine as the national capital rolls out its inoculation program. She is one of thousands of front-line staff and seniors-home residents slated for […]
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Tonight will be mostly cloudy with a chance of flurries and a low of -21 C (-6 F). Tomorrow will be cloudy with a chance of flurries throughout the day and overnight with a high of -12 (10) and a low of -13 (nine). Wednesday will continue to se clouds […]
Fred Goodall The Associated Press TAMPA, Fla. – If the Tampa Bay Buccaneers don’t end the NFL’s second-longest playoff drought, they can only blame themselves. The Bucs (8-5) bolstered their chances of their first post-season berth in 13 years with Sunday’s 26-14 victory over Minnesota. The Vikings (6-7) remain in […]
The Canadian Press A COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer has arrived in Ontario and Quebec, with the first inoculations scheduled to happen on Monday morning in Toronto, Montreal, and Quebec City. Canada is set to receive 249,000 doses of the drug from the U.S. pharmaceutical giant and its German partner BioNTech […]
Staff from the United Native Friendship Centre (UNFC), Sunset Country Ford and Fort Frances GM took a moment from their work this morning to pose with the 120 Christmas hampers that will begin rolling out to families in the UNFC’s various programs this week. The hampers are filled with a […]
Natali Trivuncic
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The Northwestern Health Unit (NWHU) announced a workplace outbreak in Pickle Lake on Friday. There are two confirmed cases and no probable cases at this time. Dr. Kit Young Hoon, medical officer of health at the NWHU said in confirming 134 COVID-19 cases since March, the NWHU has also followed […]
TORONTO – Ontario will administer the province’s first COVID-19 vaccination today, with a health-care worker set to receive the dose in Toronto. Premier Doug Ford’s office has said the first shots will be administered at the University Health Network. The province received doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine on Sunday, […]
The Canadian Press
THUNDER BAY, Ont. – A verdict is expected today in the manslaughter trial of a man who threw a trailer hitch at an Indigenous woman in Thunder Bay, Ont. The trial surrounding the death of Barbara Kentner in Thunder Bay, Ont., took place last month. Kentner died in July 2017, […]
The Canadian Press OTTAWA – Canada’s foreign aid budget is swelling noticeably today with International Development Minister Karina Gould’s announcement of $485 million in new funding towards the global effort to provide COVID-19 vaccines to poor countries. The new funds are going towards the Access to COVID-19 Tools, or “ACT […]
Press release
Northwestern Health Unit has received a report of one new positive COVID-19 test result in the District of Rainy River. Follow up with the person involved and their contacts has started according to protocol. Anyone who is identified as a contact for this case will be contacted directly. For reasons […]
Colin Perkel The Canadian Press TORONTO – Another 16 people in Ontario have succumbed to the ravages of COVID-19, 10 of them residents of nursing homes, provincial authorities reported on Sunday. The province has now had almost 4,000 people die from the novel coronavirus, data show. With just days before […]
