Local News from Across the Rainy River District
As Pope Francis ends his self-described “penitential pilgrimage” across Canada, residential school survivors and their advocates are turning up the pressure on the Vatican to release its records pertaining to the schools. “I’ve been in the job for just over a month now, and every single community I’ve been to, […]
MONTREAL – Growing inequality could reverse a decade of progress made in the fight against HIV, the director-general of the World Health Organization told an international AIDS conference in Montreal Monday. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who addressed the AIDS 2022 conference by video, said the “overlapping crises” of COVID-19, inflation and […]
OTTAWA – Despite pandemic slowdowns, Correctional Service Canada is still planning to expand the needle exchange programs currently offered at nine federal prisons, government officials say. At a presentation given to the International AIDS Conference in Montreal on Friday, Henry de Souza, the agency’s director general of clinical services and […]
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Justice says a Saudi-born Canadian citizen was sentenced to life in prison Friday for conspiring to provide support resulting in death to the terrorist organization ISIS. The Department of Justice statement says Mohammed Khalifa, 39, pleaded guilty last December in District Court for the […]
TORONTO – An Ontario nurses union says it fears health-care staffing shortages may worsen in the Toronto area after a hospital network in the city had to use nursing students and medical residents to backstop an emergency department over the weekend. The University Health Network said Monday that it was […]
Toronto police say they’ve opened a homicide investigation after a woman died following an alleged assault. They say officers responded to reports of an assault at a residence in the city’s east end just before 5:30 a.m. Thursday. Police say a man in his 30s was arrested at the scene. […]
OTTAWA – The federal government is proposing $1,337 in compensation for turning in an AR-15 rifle under a mandatory buyback program. Public Safety Canada has released a price list detailing how much money owners of banned firearms can expect to get under the program. At the higher end of the […]
SURREY, B.C. – Two men have been charged with first-degree murder in the death of Ripudaman Singh Malik. Malik, the man acquitted in 2005 for bombings aimed at Air India jets that killed 331 people, was shot in his vehicle outside his business in Surrey, B.C., on July 14. Tanner […]
Pope Francis is hosting a reconciliation-themed mass in Quebec before a congregation made up largely of residential school survivors and other Indigenous people, a day after expressing shame and sorrow for the role played by Catholic institutions in the schools. Organizers say many of the speakers who will deliver readings […]
Parents excitedly logged on to Ontario’s vaccine booking portal Thursday morning to set up long-awaited COVID-19 vaccine appointments for their babies and preschoolers. The booking system for pediatric vaccine appointments for children aged six months to under five years opened at 8 a.m. Toronto mom Isabelle Duchaine said she was […]
Police, a provincial transit corporation and a transport safety agency were investigating Wednesday after a four-year-old child was hit and killed by a GO train in Mississauga, Ont. The child, who police have not identified, was hit by the commuter train on Tuesday night and pronounced dead at the scene. […]
Mayors in parts of eastern Ontario hit by a tornado said Tuesday the resilience of their rural communities was on display as they recover from a third major storm in nearly two months. Environment Canada confirmed that at least one tornado touched down in an area north of Belleville, Ont., […]
