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KENORA — Someone loses a limb to diabetic wound complications every four hours in Ontario. “And 85 per cent of those are estimated to be preventable,” said Micayla Harland, the project manager for lower limb preservation at Kenora’s Waasegiizhig Nanaandawe’iyewigamig (WNHAC) clinic. In the north, that percentage is significantly higher. […]

KENORA — A small group of protesters with signs reading “Justice for Mekhi” gathered outside the Kenora courthouse on Friday. Inside, a hearing took place to decide whether the woman charged with accessory after the fact to the murder of Mekhi Pelly should be released on bail. That afternoon, the […]

The Salvation Army has unveiled a new Emergency Disaster Services truck in Kenora, providing Northwestern Ontario with a mobile emergency response unit capable of delivering meals, supplies and support during disasters. The vehicle, which will be permanently stationed in Kenora, is designed to respond to emergencies ranging from wildfires and […]

Qillaniq, the largest contemporary circumpolar Indigenous exhibition in the world, launched in Ottawa June 12 and will long be remembered through a book of the same name. “A book lives well beyond the exhibition,” said Taqralik Partridge, one of six members of the all-circumpolar curatorial team for Qillaniq at the […]

The morning had unfolded like any other. Less than two weeks before the start of winter, after starting her day, the 74-year-old woman went on an early walk near her Scarborough home. She began to cross an intersection, when a driver struck her. She later died from the injuries caused by […]

Selfies are now standard protocol for all visitors to public schools in St. Vital. The Louis Riel School Division is doing away with physical sign-in binders and installing intercoms, among sweeping security upgrades that began after a registered sex offender snuck into two of its facilities in the fall. The […]