Local News from Across the Rainy River District
VANCOUVER – The federal government intends to temporarily hike GST rebate cheques in a bid to ease some of the hurt of inflation for lower income Canadians. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will announce a three-pronged plan to address affordability at the Liberal cabinet retreat in Vancouver today. Cabinet ministers are […]
MEXICO CITY (AP) – Hurricane Kay steamed toward a possible brush with land on a sparsely populated stretch of Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula Thursday, and forecasters say it might bring rains to southernmost California by the weekend. Authorities in Baja opened shelters and closed schools ahead of Kay, which had […]
Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada and the Commonwealth, ascended the throne as much by a twist of fate as by the grace of God. As the daughter and granddaughter of men who were not first in line to the throne, Elizabeth was once destined for a life […]
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) – Puerto Rican superstar Ricky Martin filed a lawsuit Wednesday against his nephew that accused him of extortion, malicious persecution, abuse of law and damages – stemming from false allegations of sexual abuse. Martin’s lawyers said the claim by the nephew, which he has since […]
BALTIMORE (AP) – Alek Manoah finished this series the way Kevin Gausman started it, by pitching Toronto to a pivotal win. When those two are on the mound, the Blue Jays look like a complete team – one capable of a deep run this postseason. Toronto isn’t in the playoffs […]
Canada coach Henry Paul knows there is no margin for error at the Rugby World Cup Sevens in Cape Town. The tournament features the “winner takes all” knockout format introduced four years ago at the tournament in San Francisco, with a single loss taking teams out of championship contention. The […]
WASHINGTON – A Wisconsin judge has ruled in favour of an Indigenous band in its dispute with Enbridge over Line 5, but stopped short of shutting down the controversial cross-border pipeline. District Court Judge William Conley says the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa has proven it was […]
NEW YORK (AP) – Stocks shook off an early stumble and rose in morning trading on Wall Street Thursday, keeping the market on track to break a threeweek losing streak. The S&P 500 rose 0.5% as of 10:58 a.m. Eastern. The benchmark index is holding on to a 1.9% gain […]
TORONTO – New research from KPMG shows investment in Canadian financial technology companies has dropped by more than 50 per cent in the first half of the year. The auditing firm says fintech companies in the country garnered US$810 million in investments across 85 deals in the first half of […]
NEW YORK (AP) – Bernard Shaw, CNN’s chief anchor for two decades and a pioneering Black broadcast journalist best remembered for calmly reporting the beginning of the Gulf War in 1991 as missiles flew around him in Baghdad, has died. He was 82. He died of pneumonia on Wednesday at […]
NEW YORK (AP) — With Janet Jackson resplendent in a black trouser suit on his front row and humongous hats on many of his models, Christian Siriano opened New York Fashion Week at the former townhouse of Elizabeth Taylor, rolling out sexy, slinky looks Wednesday to go with his trademark […]
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A man has been arrested in a weekend shooting in Minnesota’s capital city that left three people dead and two others wounded, officials say. Police and the FBI arrested the 41-year-old Minneapolis man in Chicago on Wednesday in the shooting in St. Paul, authorities said. […]
