Local News from Across the Rainy River District
Canada is officially buying the F-35 fighter jet, ending the years-long search to replace the aging CF-18 fleet where it first began. Defence Minister Anita Anand announced Monday that Canada reached an agreement with the United States and F-35 maker Lockheed Martin to buy 88 of the aircraft at an […]
Grieving friends and relatives of victims killed during the downing of Flight PS752 called for justice and accountability from the Iranian regime Sunday as Canadians from coast to coast marked three years since the country’s military shot the plane down. At a highly-emotional and politically-charged ceremony in North Toronto, The […]
VANCOUVER – Travellers arriving in Vancouver from Hong Kong said they were relieved to be among the last arrivals before Canada’s new COVID-19 testing requirements took effect, including one woman who changed her flight to avoid the rules. Starting Thursday, from 12:01 a.m. eastern time, Canada will require travellers from […]
Gemma Hickey says when they were in their teens, they went to a faith-based conversion therapy practitioner who had them pray and read literature to try to make them heterosexual. “When I was vulnerable, I went to see someone, because I thought she could help me. And in the end, […]
The funeral for the Ontario Provincial Police officer killed last week is set to be held Wednesday morning at an arena in his hometown of Barrie, Ont. The OPP says the private service for 28-year-old Const. Grzegorz (Greg) Pierzchala will start at 11 a.m. at the Sadlon Arena. His family […]
A global ransomware operator issued an apology and offered to unlock the data targeted in a ransomware attack on Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children, a move cybersecurity experts say is rare, if not unprecedented, for the infamous group. LockBit, a ransomware group the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has called […]
The Winnipeg Police Service says the president of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms is facing charges that include attempting to obstruct justice, following his admission in 2021 that he hired a private investigator to follow a Manitoba judge. Winnipeg police say in a news release that John Carpay, 55, […]
FREDERICTON – Scientists who study the endangered North Atlantic right whale are cautiously optimistic about the current breeding season after nine calves were spotted during its first few weeks. Moira Brown, senior scientist with the Canadian Whale Institute, said fewer than 100 of the 340 surviving animals in the waters […]
Ontarians with 13 common ailments can skip the doctor’s office and head straight to the pharmacist to get a prescription. The provincial government says as of January 1, 2023, pharmacists have the power to prescribe treatments for conditions that include pink eye, hemorrhoids and urinary tract infections. The province says […]
Canada’s requirement of a negative COVID-19 test of travellers from China will not help in preventing new variants or the spread of the virus, say experts. Kerry Bowman, assistant professor at the University of Toronto’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine, called the requirement “absolutely a political move, and not based on […]
People living in tents along about eight blocks of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside roam around on a chilly afternoon as some in the throes of addiction are hunched over on the sidewalk near storefronts. A woman wearing black and white striped pants strides along East Hastings Street yelling, apparently at no […]
OTTAWA – The federal government is “looking at a variety of options” to carry out a planned buyback of banned firearms – including enlisting outside help, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino says. The Liberal government banned some 1,500 models and variants of firearms, including the AR-15 and Ruger Mini-14, through […]
