Local News from Across the Rainy River District
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Wednesday he “won’t spare a penny” to help fight the northern wildfires and support evacuees, but he isn’t declaring a state of emergency. Ford visited the wildfire command centre in Thunder Bay and met with evacuees and community leaders. He thanked the hundreds of firefighters, […]
TORONTO – Ontario plans to spend up to $324millionto boost hospital capacity and extend working hours to tackle a waitlist for surgeries that’s expected to grow as the province recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic. Health Minister Christine Elliott and the CEO of Ontario Health on Wednesday announced details of the […]
TORONTO – Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott says more than 80 per cent of people in the province aged 12 and older have now received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. That means one of three conditions the province has set for moving beyond Step 3 of its […]
WINNIPEG – A First Nations advocacy group in Manitoba is urging RCMP across the country to open criminal investigations into all former residential schools following a decade-long investigation into allegations of sexual abuse at a former residential school in the province. The Southern Chiefs’ Organization says investigations are warranted and […]
TORONTO – Ontario has asked the federal government to ensure Canadians who received mixed COVID-19 vaccines will be recognized for international travel as border measures lift. Health Minister Christine Elliott and Solicitor General Sylvia Jones wrote to Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc and other officials on Sunday about the issue. […]
The number and size of wildfires in northern Ontario this year are substantially higher than average, and have forced thousands of people to flee First Nations communities, the government said Monday. This year there have been 902 wildfires so far, nearly double the 10-year average of 520. There are currently […]
TORONTO – Canada’s largest airport is no longer splitting arriving international passengers into different customs lines based on their vaccination status. Toronto’s Pearson International Airport announced last week it may be sorting travellers arriving from the U.S. or other international locations into vaccinated and partially or non-vaccinated queues. But a […]
MONCTON, N.B. – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is urging Canadians who still have not gotten a COVID-19 vaccine to roll up their sleeves, saying that the overwhelming majority of cases are in people who haven’t received their two shots. Trudeau says only half of one per cent of cases being […]
WINNIPEG – Manitoba Mounties say they have been conducting a large-scale, years-long investigation into allegations of sexual abuse at a residential school. RCMP say officers with the major crime unit began looking into the Fort Alexander Residential School, northeast of Winnipeg, in 2010 and a criminal investigation was launched the […]
Pediatricians are warning of a potential resurgence of a certain respiratory virus in kids that could appear this summer following an abnormally quiet 2020 flu season. A letter written by medical experts at the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute and published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal says Canada […]
Several mass COVID-19 vaccination clinics across Ontario, including the Northwestern Health Unit, are winding down as first-dose registrations wane and communities shift their focus to smaller venues. The large clinics held in local arenas, hospitals and recreation centres across the province have been a key part of the vaccine rollout […]
TORONTO – Ontario is reporting 172 new cases of COVID-19 and two more deaths. There are 48 new cases in Toronto, 23 in Peel Region, 11 in Durham Region and 11 in Hamilton. Those cases were found among 13,900 tests completed in the previous day. There are 127 people in […]
