Local News from Across the Rainy River District
Canada’s chief justice says the legal system must continue to modernize and innovate, warning it cannot return to pre-pandemic ways of doing business. The Supreme Court of Canada’s Richard Wagner told a news conference Thursday that all players in the justice system are reassessing what they do, how they do […]
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will embark on a round-the-world tour next week to meet with global leaders for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, G7 and NATO summits. The Prime Minister’s Office says he will endeavour to strengthen key international partnerships with an eye to defending peace, security, […]
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) – Montana’s largest city restarted its water plant Thursday after shutting it down amid record flooding that’s caused widespread damage in Yellowstone National Park and surrounding communities. Residents in ravaged areas, meanwhile, cleaned up from the mess and braced for the economic fallout while the park remains […]
BERLIN (AP) – Rich countries including the European Union and the United States have pushed back against efforts to put financial help for poor nations suffering the devastating effects of global warming firmly on the agenda for this year’s U.N. climate summit. Observers and campaigners attending a ten-day preparatory meeting […]
John Reader, 73, of Fort Frances, Ontario, passed away on Sunday, June 12, 2022, at the LaVerendrye General Hospital in Fort Frances. John was born on September 20, 1948, in Toronto, Ontario, to Albert and Lillian Reader. He grew up in Highland Creek and attended Sir Sandford Fleming College, studying […]
Joseph Gervais passed away on Wednesday, June 15, 2022, at Rainycrest Long Term Care. Funeral services are pending and a complete obituary will follow.
Tesla billionaire Elon Musk is due to meet with Twitter employees Thursday in an apparent effort to assuage concerns about his $44 billion deal to acquire the social platform. Musk reached a deal to acquire Twitter in April, but he has clashed with the company repeatedly since then. Musk said […]
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is scheduled to deliver a keynote address about the Canadian economy in downtown Toronto this afternoon. Freeland’s speech comes as Canadians have been feeling the effects of stubbornly high inflation, as well as rising interest rates. Last month, Statistics Canada reported the inflation rate for April […]
I pulled into one of my favourite spring crappie spots a few days ago, a patch of pencil reeds that I have fished many times in the past. As I dropped my trolling motor and looked at the depth reading on my sonar screen, I thought I was on the […]
TORONTO – Netflix is launching a development program for diverse Canadian writers in film and television. The streamer’s head of global TV announced the initiative – dubbed Advancing Voices: Netflix Canada Creator Program – at the Banff World Media Festival on Tuesday. Bela Bejaria says seven writers from underrepresented groups […]
NEW YORK (AP) – Lawyers for British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell urged leniency at sentencing, asking a judge Wednesday to disregard a probation department recommendation of a 20-year prison term for her sex trafficking conviction and role in financier Jeffrey Epstein’s sex abuse of teenage girls. They said in court papers […]
DENVER (AP) – The Tampa Bay Lightning weren’t the ones who looked like the two-time defending champions in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final on Wednesday night. The Colorado Avalanche, playing for the first time in nine nights, raced to 2-0 and 3-1 leads in the first period by […]
