Local News from Across the Rainy River District
Three of Ontario’s four main parties are pledging to reverse cuts to the province’s student assistance program, but they’ve all attached different price tags to the promise. The program that converted many student loans to grants and made tuition free for some students was turfed by the Progressive Conservatives after […]
KUUJJUAQ, Que. – Daniel Gabois would usually be out hunting this time of year. Flocks of Canada geese have started to appear overhead in their V-formations, returning to nesting grounds in the northern Quebec region of Nunavik. That’s the signal for him and many others in his hometown of Kuujjuaq […]
WINNIPEG – Kseniia Zinenko stepped outside of the Winnipeg airport Monday evening after a nine-hour flight from Poland to Manitoba’s capital city. The 30-year-old is one of more than 300 Ukrainian nationals who were on a federally chartered flight to bring people fleeing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to Canada. “Very […]
WAWA, Ont. – The wreckage of a small plane that disappeared last month in northern Ontario with two men aboard has been located in Lake Superior Provincial Park. Ontario Provincial Police say in a news release that one of their helicopters, along with a civilian helicopter, were conducting follow-up searches […]
The Supreme Court of Canada will hear Ontario’s appeal to block the release of mandate letters sent from Premier Doug Ford to his cabinet ministers nearly four years ago. The CBC sought the 23 letters Ford wrote to his cabinet ministers shortly after his Progressive Conservatives won the 2018 election. […]
Sandbagging efforts continue across the region as high water levels continue to threaten infrastructure and homes. Namakan Lake has now exceeded water levels recorded in 2014, and Rainy Lake is quickly approaching its high water mark from that year as well. Volunteers for sandbagging are still being sought by area […]
TORONTO – Two of the leaders of Ontario’s four major political parties have been sidelined with COVID-19 with two weeks left to election day. Both NDP Leader Andrea Horwath and Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner have tested positive, with Horwath’s result coming Thursday morning and Schreiner’s coming the previous evening. […]
KINGSTON, Ont. – Ontario’s New Democrats and Liberals committed Wednesday to bringing in a law to fight Islamophobia and other forms of hate if elected to form government next month. Speaking to reporters in Kingston, Ont., NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said addressing racism and hate is a priority for people […]
A forest fire has forced the evacuation of residents in a community north of Sudbury, Ont. Conservation officers and Ontario Provincial Police assisted with the precautionary evacuation of Shining Tree, Ont., residents Saturday afternoon after a forest fire broke out in the area on May 10. The fire is still […]
GENEVA (AP) – The World Health Organization said Thursday that it has granted an emergency use authorization for the coronavirus vaccine made by China’s CanSino Biologics, the 11th such shot to receive the green light. The U.N. health agency said the single-dose CanSino vaccine was found to be about 92% […]
A Hong Kong-flagged racing sailboat that led its skippers to win multiple contests around the world came under attack Thursday off the coast of war-torn Yemen, with its crew reportedly targeted by militants armed with rocket-propelled grenades. The Lakota, a 62-foot (19-meter) trimaran recently purchased by famed French yachtsman Philippe […]
