Local News from Across the Rainy River District
TORONTO – Health-care advocates criticized the Ontario government Friday for not providing any funding details in the provincial budget for a major pledge to improve long-term care, saying the promise will require significant investment. The Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario and the Canadian Union of Public Employees said they were […]
Ontario notched a new single-day peak in COVID-19 cases on Saturday just as the province implemented a new colour-coded assessment system that one public health unit rejected as too lenient. The province recorded 1,132 new infections and 11 new deaths linked to the novel coronavirus. The figures came as most […]
WINNIPEG – David Monias has barely slept in weeks. The Pimicikamak Cree Nation chief says his phone rings off the hook day and night from people fearful the COVID-19 pandemic is silently spreading into the isolated northern Manitoba reserve. “This is a war,” Monias says. “But it’s a different type […]
THUNDER BAY – Defence counsel for Brayden Bushby argued it is impossible to know for certain if the injury Barbara Kentner sustained in late January 2017 was the cause of her death six months later. On Wednesday, Nov. 4, Dr. Toby Rose, the pathologist who conducted the post-mortem examination of […]
HALIFAX – An ocean conservation organization says Canada’s “poorly regulated” seafood supply chain has hampered the fisheries sector and put ocean health in jeopardy. In a report released Thursday, Oceana Canada says the regulatory gaps are unwittingly contributing to illicit seafood fishing and trade. “You could be buying something that […]
TORONTO – A Toronto police officer convicted of assault in the brutal beating of a young Black man was sentenced to nine months in jail on Thursday, a punishment the judge said takes into account the “racialized context” of the violence. Superior Court Justice Joseph Di Luca said that even […]
Spousal abuse can include: 67% of Canadians know a woman who has experienced physical or sexual abuse.
Ontario is reporting 1,050 new cases of COVID-19 today and 14 additional deaths related to the the novel coronavirus. Health Minister Christine Elliott says 408 of the new cases are in Toronto, 212 are in Peel Region, 86 in Halton Region, 76 in York Region and 57 in Durham Region. […]
QUEBEC–The Quebec government has launched an online registry to collect messages of condolence following Saturday night’s sword attack that left two dead in Quebec City. Premier Francois Legault is inviting Quebecers to express their sympathy to the family and loved ones of Suzanne Clermont and Francois Duchesne, who died after […]
The Ontario government promised Monday to establish a new standard that would see nursing home residents receive an average of four hours of direct care every day, but critics said the province wasn’t moving fast enough to implement the measure. Premier Doug Ford pledged to achieve the standard by 2024-2025 […]
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s massive tree-planting promise from the 2019 election has yet to be allocated a single dime. Trudeau pledged a year ago that the government would plant two billion more trees by 2030, or about 200 million extra trees per year. Canada plants about 600 million […]
Just hours after Marie-Jo Duchesne had shared laughs with her older brother, who’d been out hiking on a sunny Saturday in Quebec, the heartbreaking call came informing her of Francois Duchesne’s death in Quebec City. She received the news from a sibling. “The police came to another one of my […]
