Local News from Across the Rainy River District
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden will use a speech in Georgia to endorse changing Senate filibuster rules that have stalled voting rights legislation, saying it’s time to choose “democracy over autocracy.” But some civil rights groups won’t be there, in protest of what they say is administration inaction. Biden […]
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – The Taliban have released a popular university professor and outspoken critic of successive Afghan governments who was arrested over the weekend, a family member said Tuesday. Hasina Jalal, Faizullah Jalal’s daughter, said her father was freed from Taliban custody. The group had accused him of “nonsense […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Phillip Danault, Blake Lizotte and Adrian Kempe scored in the Los Angeles Kings’ 3-1 win over the New York Rangers on Monday night. Trevor Moore had two assists and Cal Petersen made 22 saves for the Kings, who have won four of five. Mika Zibanejad had […]
POTSDAM, Germany (AP) – German prosecutors will drop an animal cruelty investigation into an athlete and a coach who were shown striking a horse during the Olympic modern pentathlon last year. The investigation will be dropped once athlete Annika Schleu and coach Kim Raisner have paid an agreed sum to […]
DENVER (AP) – Nazem Kadri scored the go-ahead goal late in the third period, and the surging Colorado Avalanche rallied to beat the Seattle Kraken 4-3 on Monday night. Nicolas Aube-Kubel had two goals and Devon Toews also scored for Colorado, which beat former goalie Philipp Grubauer to win its […]
BERN, Switzerland (AP) – Olympic snowboard champion Patrizia Kummer will head to the Beijing Games early to spend three weeks in quarantine because she isn’t vaccinated against the coronavirus, she said Tuesday. Chinese authorities require unvaccinated Olympians to enter quarantine upon arrival if they don’t have a valid medical exemption. […]
Widespread testing of patients and staff underway The Northwestern Health Unit and Riverside Health Care Facilities are investigating “Suspect” COVID-19 outbreak at Riverside Health Care Facilities-LaVerendrye General Hospital site as a result of one (1) patient testing positive. To further enhance our Team’s ongoing efforts to prevent the spread of […]
TORONTO – Ontario is reporting 438 people in intensive care with COVID-19 and 2,467 people hospitalized with the virus in total. Health Minister Christine Elliott shared the figures noting that not all hospitals report data from the weekend. The province reported 9,706 new COVID-19 cases, but Public Health Ontario has […]
Multiple sightings of snowmen have been reported across the District recently. The seasonal visitors are expected to stay for a while – cold temperatures and snowy conditions tend to increase their numbers. If you’ve spotted one of these visitors in your yard or neighbourhood, take a photo and send it […]
Riverside Health Care in conjunction with the Northwestern Public Health Unit has declared a Respiratory Outbreak at Rainy River Health Centre. This is in addition to a Respiratory Outbreak declared in Rainycrest on December 28. As a precautionary measure all symptomatic individuals have been tested for COVID-19, currently all tests […]
VANCOUVER – Hospitals in several parts of Canada are straining under the weight of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, with Quebec hospitalizations reaching an all-time high on Sunday and Ontario’s admissions to intensive care units surging past the 400 mark. New Brunswick’s hospitals also hovered near their highest levels since […]
EDMONTON – Alberta doesn’t have a good grasp of the overall environmental impacts of the oilsands a decade after implementing monitoring that was supposed to provide it, internal government documents suggest. In July, Alberta Environment and Parks surveyed doz- ens of scientists and other participants in the Oilsands Monitoring Program, […]
