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Riverside Health Care in conjunction with the Northwestern Public Health Unit declared a COVID- 19 Outbreak at Rainycrest Long Term Care Home on Friday, affecting both residents and staff. To further enhance our team’s ongoing efforts to prevent the spread of COVID-19, additional precautions are being taken including, but not […]
A line of vehicles and protesters, displaying flags and anti-mandate signs, assembled at the Fort Frances international border crossing on Sunday. The protest was peaceful, and police were on hand to ensure the border and roadway remained open. About 30 vehicles, from transports to personal vehicles took part, forming a […]
TORONTO – Ontario is ending its vaccine certificate system on March 1, when capacity limits will lift as well, Premier Doug Ford announced Monday, though he said masking requirements will remain for now. Ford insisted the step is not a result of pressure from anti-vaccine mandate protesters. “Today’s announcement is […]
TORONTO – Ontario continues to see a decline in the number of COVID-19 cases, deaths and admissions to provincial hospitals and intensive care units. The province says there were 1,540 people in hospital due to the virus on Saturday, of which 402 were in intensive care. That’s down from the […]
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The Chronicle-Journal
THUNDER BAY — Beginning in late May, the Thunder Bay cruise ship port will be bustling with travellers arriving on the Viking Expeditions’ Viking Octantis and the American Queen Voyages’ Ocean Navigator passenger vessels. Paul Pepe, manager of tourism for the city, says the arrival of the cruise ships will […]
THE CANADIAN PRESS
WINDSOR, ONTARIO – Commercial trucks and other vehicles are flowing normally over the reopened Ambassador Bridge today, with police keeping a close watch on the busy international border crossing. Traffic resumed on the key trade route just before midnight after it was blocked for nearly a week due to a […]
Loretta Iris Allan (nee Lockman) passed away peacefully on February 10, 2022, at the La Verendrye General Hospital in Fort Frances. Mom was born on November 28, 1935, in Fort Frances and spent her early years on her grandparents’ farm in La Vallee. As a young girl she spent one […]
Ottawa’s mayor has set a deadline of noon today for truckers encamped in the capital’s core to move out of residential streets in a bid to pare down the size of the protest’s footprint. Mayor Jim Watson outlined the proposal in a letter released on Sunday as part of a […]
THE CANADIAN PRESS
EDMONTON – The federal government has bowed to provincial and industry lobbying in weakening proposed standards for coal mining effluent, critics say. A discussion document for draft regulations, released earlier this year, would double the amount of toxins – such as selenium – the mines are allowed to release and […]
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) – The federal judge presiding over the hate crimes trial of three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery said she would seat a jury Monday after a week spent asking potential jurors what they already know about the Black man’s death as well as their […]
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MOSCOW (AP) – Russia’s top diplomat advised President Vladimir Putin on Monday to keep talking with the West on Moscow’s security demands, a signal from the Kremlin that it intends to continue diplomatic efforts amid U.S. warnings of an imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine. Moscow wants guarantees from the West […]
