Local News from Across the Rainy River District
The archbishop of Toronto expressed “great sorrow” Sunday for the abuse that took place at Canada’s residential schools, though he insisted the prime minister was “unfair” in his calls for the Catholic Church to take more responsibility. Cardinal Thomas Collins also said it was “very important” when Pope Francis held […]
OTTAWA – Signs of summer’s pending arrival were greeted with other reasons for hope across much of Canada over the weekend as several provinces reported their lowest number of new COVID-19 infections in months and tens of thousands more Canadians were vaccinated. The good news started with Quebec. Once the […]
TORONTO – Ontario schools will remain closed for in-person learning for the rest of the academic year, Premier Doug Ford announced Wednesday, while hinting the province could reopen ahead of schedule. Schools have been closed since mid-April, and while COVID-19 trends have improved since then, Ford said virus variants pose […]
Housing and tenant advocates are calling on Ontario to reinstate a ban on residential evictions that lifted Wednesday as the province’s stay-at-home order expired. They argued that losing housing during the pandemic would put lives at risk, and suggested evictions be suspended as long as provincial COVID-19 restrictions remained. “Keeping […]
OTTAWA – Two years after the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls released its sweeping findings, a plan to move forward on its 231 calls to justice is finally being presented. The plan, branded as the long-promised national action plan, is something of a preliminary, but […]
The Governments of Canada and Ontario are launching a new targeted beekeeper intake to support and strengthen the health of managed honey bees and Ontario’s beekeeping sector. The business of beekeeping plays an important role when it comes to managing bee health and the success of crops on Ontario farms. […]
TORONTO – The man who deliberately killed 10 people by driving a van down a Toronto sidewalk will be sentenced in 2022. A judge found Alek Minassian, of Richmond Hill, Ont., guilty of 10 counts of first-degree murder and 16 counts of attempted murder earlier this year. Justice Anne Molloy […]
One of Ontario’s fiscal watch- dogs says provincial funding al- located for education over the next several years falls billions of dollars short of what it projects will be needed to pay for promised programming. The Financial Accountability Office issued a report Monday comparing the Ministry of Education’s programs and […]
Ontario is reporting 699 new cases of COVID-19 today and nine more deaths from the virus. Health Minister Christine Elliott says there are 207 new cases in Toronto, 144 in Peel Region, 52 in York Region and 50 in Durham Region. The province says Tuesday’s data is based on 20,262 […]
It will be a perfect summer for backyard barbecues and picnics in the park across much of Canada, according to predictions from one prominent national forecaster. But the warm, dry conditions that socially starved Canadians crave as the spread of COVID-19 slows and the pace of vaccination accelerates will also […]
TORONTO – Mirvish Productions has announced a new date for what’s billed as Toronto’s first indoor theatre presentation since the pandemic shut down live performance venues. The theatre giant plans to stage the Donmar Warehouse production of “Blindness,” a socially distanced sound installation, on Aug. 4. The Canadian premiere of […]
KAMLOOPS, B.C. – A First Nations teacher says the discovery of the remains of 215 children buried at the site of a former residential school in British Columbia is a triggering event for students who regularly learn about the history of wrongs against Indigenous people. Rick Joe said a provincewide […]
