Born to Cheyenne Hoard and Donald Patterson, of Atikokan, Ontario, a boy, Kayden Gavin Donald, weighing 5 lbs 14 oz on October 10, 2022 at LaVerendrye General Hospital, Fort Frances, Ontario.
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The Rainy River District School Board has issued the following statement in regards to a pending labour protest by CUPE workers on Friday: The Rainy River District School Board continues to monitor the provincial labour negotiations closely. In the RRDSB, CUPE represents custodial and maintenance staff, as well as business […]
The Canadian Press
The deadline for child-care operators in Ontario to opt-in to the national $10-a-day program is today. Ontario extended the deadline from Sept. 1 to Nov. 1 to allow operators more time sign up for the program, which will reduce child care fees for parents. About 85 per cent of operators […]
From left, Elaine Fisher, Megan Spooner, Debbie Jean and Angela Petsnick dressed up as fruits and vegetables for the Monster Mash Dash on Friday night. About 70 runners and walkers of all ages came out for some costumed fun and exercise. There was lots of dancing and laughter. Organizer Lori […]
By Allison Jones
THE CANADIAN PRESS
THE CANADIAN PRESS
A union representing approximately 55,000 Ontario education workers said Monday its members will walk off the job on Friday despite the government tabling legislation to impose contracts and ban a strike. Laura Walton, president of the Canadian Union of Public Employee’s Ontario School Board Council of Unions, said whether workers […]
By Allison Jones
THE CANADIAN PRESS
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is criticizing the Ontario government’s use of the notwithstanding clause in legislation to impose contracts on education workers and ban them from striking. Trudeau made the comments a day after Ontario tabled a bill meant to avert a planned strike by 55,000 education workers. Using the […]
By Lee Berthiaume
THE CANADIAN PRESS
THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA – We’ll see you at Christmas. It was October 2011 and Candy Greff was standing outside a restaurant in Morinville, Alta.,saying goodbye to her son Byron Greff. Little did she know that it would be the last time she would see him alive. A 28-year-old master corporal with the […]
THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA – Lawyers for Ontario Premier Doug Ford and a top provincial minister are set to argue in court today in an effort to get the pair out of testifying at the federal Emergencies Act inquiry. The Public Order Emergency Commission summoned Ford and then-solicitor general Sylvia Jones last week […]
By David Fraser
THE CANADIAN PRESS
THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA – “Freedom Convoy” organizers are expected to testify at the public inquiry into the federal government’s use of the Emergencies Act starting today. The witnesses are expected to shed light on the conception of the weeks-long demonstrations that gridlocked Ottawa streets last winter. Several of the protest organizers, including […]
By Amy Smart
THE CANADIAN PRESS
THE CANADIAN PRESS
VANCOUVER – Family doctors in British Columbia have been offered a significant raise under the province’s new compensation model as part of a plan to address the crisis in the health-care system. The provincial government said Monday a full-time family doctor would be paid about $385,000 a year, up from […]
By Jenna Fryer
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The tit-for-tat war between Zak Brown and Chip Ganassi took another turn Tuesday when Arrow McLaren SP announced it had signed both a Ganassi sponsor and Tony Kanaan to drive the Indianapolis 500. Kanaan spent four seasons driving for Chip Ganassi Racing and the last two Indianapolis 500s. The 2003 […]
By Margaret Stafford
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Former Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid will be sentenced Tuesday for driv- ing drunk, speeding and hit- ting two parked cars last year, leaving a 5-year-old girl with a serious brain injury. Reid pleaded guilty in September to driving while intoxicated causing seriously […]
