Local News from Across the Rainy River District
Two University of Calgary researchers weren’t surprised when their survey of Alberta doctors showed biases against Indigenous patients, but they were shocked by some of the comments. Pamela Roach and Shannon Ruzycki sent a survey in September 2020 to every licensed doctor in the province to determine their biases following […]
Search and rescue crews say a plane with two people on board that went missing earlier this week in a remote area of northern Ontario has been found with both occupants dead. The Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in Trenton, Ont., said Saturday evening that the search for the Cessna 208, […]
Canada’s spy service warns that climate change poses a profound, ongoing threat to national security and prosperity, including the possible loss of parts of British Columbia and the Atlantic provinces to rising sea levels. A newly released analysis by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service also foresees an increase in ideologically […]
The Broadbent Institute is keeping TikTok as a sponsor during their upcoming conference, despite rising national security concerns from the government of Canada regarding the popular app. TikTok is sponsoring the policy thinktank’s opening reception on Wednesday in Ottawa. “We have a fundraising approach that makes clear sponsors do not […]
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, England (AP) — On a blustery late-winter day in Shakespeare’s birthplace, the foyer of the Other Place theater is a cozy refuge. Visitors are having meetings over coffee, checking emails, writing poetry, learning to sew. It looks and feels like an arty café in the pictureque streets of Stratford-upon-Avon, […]
WILLOW, Alaska (AP) — The race to Nome began Sunday for 33 mushers in this year’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska. Jessie Holmes. an Alabama native living in the Alaska community of Brushkana, was the first musher to leave across a frozen lake about 70 miles (112 kilometers) […]
The memories came rushing back for Reid Carruthers upon his return to Budweiser Gardens. The Wild Card 2 skip made a point of stepping on Sheet C, the same strip of ice where he won his first Canadian men’s curling title as second for Manitoba’s Jeff Stoughton in 2011. “The […]
Detroit Red Wings (28-25-9, seventh in the Atlantic Division) vs. Philadelphia Flyers (23-28-11, seventh in the Metropolitan Division) Philadelphia; Sunday, 6 p.m. EST FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK NHL LINE: Flyers -125, Red Wings +104; over/under is 6 BOTTOM LINE: The Philadelphia Flyers enter a matchup with the Detroit Red Wings as losers […]
Search and rescue crews are looking for a small commercial plane with two people on board that went missing Tuesday in a remote area of northern Ontario. The Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in Trenton is leading the search for the missing Cessna 208, which left Nakina around 12:45 p.m. and […]
Ontario’s public health units are calling on the government to stop using one-time funding to bridge a gap it created four years ago, and to provide them with a predictable source of money as they address a backlog of services built up over the COVID-19 pandemic. Premier Doug Ford’s government […]
(FORT FRANCES, ON) – Members of the Rainy River District Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are investigating a dumpster fire and request public assistance in identifying potential suspects. On February 27, 2023 at 2:12 p.m. Fort Frances OPP received a report of a fire that occurred overnight in a dumpster behind […]
