Megan Walchuk
The search for two people on board a plane that has been missing in northern Ontario has entered its fourth day. Maj. Trevor Reid, a spokesperson for the Canadian Armed Forces, says the Piper Comanche aircraft left Delhi, Ont., around 3:45 p.m. Thursday and was headed for Marathon, Ont. Reid […]
Ontario is reporting 1,486 people in hospital with COVID-19 today, up 14 per cent from the previous day. The province is also reporting 206 COVID-patients in intensive care, a slight increase from Monday’s 202. But it says more than 10 per cent of hospitals did not provide data on COVID-19 […]
THE CANADIAN PRESS A Métis group from Manitoba was flying to Rome on Monday ahead of a meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican later this week. The delegation from the Manitoba Métis Federation on Thursday will be the first to meet the head of the Roman Catholic Church since […]
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Picture this: You step into your garden, and the beds are brimming with flowers that thrive on benign neglect. You seldom need to water them, and they don’t require much in the way of fertilizer, either. What’s more, you feel like Snow White as birds, bees and butterflies congregate around […]
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LONDON (AP) — Health officials say they have detected more cases of a mysterious liver disease in children that was first identified in Britain, with new infections spreading to Europe and the U.S. Last week, British officials reported 74 cases of hepatitis, or liver inflammation, found in children since January. […]
It was a snowy welcome for the Easter Bunny this year, following a spring storm. Some residents made the most of it, by creating snow bunnies, including this one, decked out for the holidays.
It is with broken hearts that the family of Jesse Morrisseau announces his passing on Wednesday, April 6, 2022, in Fort Frances, Ontario. Jesse was born on September 25, 1979, to Marty and Monica Morrisseau in Fort Frances. He grew up on Couchiching First Nation and attended Catholic schools and […]
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OTTAWA – Canadian human rights organizations say the 40th anniversary of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms is an opportunity to acknowledge its shortcomings and call for change. Sen. Marilou McPhedran, who was involved in campaigning for stronger gender protections through Section 28 of the Charter, hosted a news conference […]
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Assembly of First Nations National Chief RoseAnne Archibald wants to change the conversation when it comes to the annual federal budget, especially after financial commitments were revealed April 7 by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland. “What we ended up with obviously was not what First Nations had identified as being needed […]
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HALIFAX – Two years after her father was gunned down by a man disguised as a Mountie, Charlene Bagley remains convinced he would be alive today had the Nova Scotia RCMP issued a provincewide alert early in the killer’s rampage. “He usually would check the news on Facebook,” Bagley said […]
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOENIX (AP) — Gerda Weissmann Klein, a Holocaust survivor who wrote about her ordeal and went on to receive a presidential medal of freedom, will be remembered at a memorial May 1 after her death this month. Klein died April 3 in Phoenix, where she had lived […]
