Elections Ontario says more than one million people voted in the advance polls. Advance voting was available for 10 days this year, up from five in the last election. Elections Ontario says preliminary figures indicate that 1,066,545 people cast their ballot in advance polls this year, which represents 9.9 per […]
Canada
By Virginie Ann
THE CANADIAN PRESS
THE CANADIAN PRESS
MONTREAL – Dozens of well-wishers bearing balloons and flowers packed a Montreal airport on Sunday to welcome hundreds of Ukrainians fleeing the war in their home country and poised to begin rebuilding their lives in Canada. The second of three flights chartered by the federal government touched down shortly before […]
By Allison Jones
THE CANADIAN PRESS
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Ontario’s autism program has undergone four major revamps in the past six years, and has seen five different ministers in charge, and Alina Cameron just wants her daughter’s over four-and-a-half year wait for treatment to be done. Fiona, 7, has been on the wait list for government-funded therapy since Oct. […]
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Two new suspected cases of monkeypox and one probable case of the virus were re- ported in Toronto on Wednesday, bringing the total number of cases being investigated in the city to four. Toronto Public Health said all three of the newly reported cases are men – two in their […]
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TORONTO – Three of Ontario’s four major political parties are promising to end for-profit long-term care in the province, though they offer differing plans for how to accomplish what would be a huge undertaking. The NDP, Liberals and Greens say the COVID-19 pandemic shone a light on long-term care, and […]
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WASHINGTON – Trans- port Minister Omar Alghabra says he is detecting a positive “shift” in the Biden administration’s approach to Canada following meetings in the U.S. capital. Alghabra spent Tuesday in Washington, D.C., with officials including U.S. counterpart Pete Buttigieg and senior White House adviser Mitch Landrieu. He says Russia’s […]
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Last week NDP candidate for Kenora-Rainy River JoAnne Formanek Gustafson issued the following statement calling out her opponent, the incumbent candidate, Conservative Greg Rickford for inaction over the recent wave of flooding across the riding. “The flooding in communities here in Kenora-Rainy River and across the Northwest is getting worse […]
By Daniel Adam
Staff Writer
dadam@fortfrances.com
Staff Writer
dadam@fortfrances.com
Provincially, the average price for gas was at 200.2 cents per litre over the long weekend. With the provincial election looming, party leaders are discussing solutions on how to reduce the high prices. Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath said in a virtual media availability Friday that her party is the […]
By Jessica Smith
THE CANADIAN PRESS
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Ontario’s four main party leaders are reaffirming commitments to search for burial sites at the province’s former residential schools for Indigenous students one year after ground-penetrating radar unearthed what are believed to be the graves of 215 children at a former such facility in British Columbia. The Progressive Conservatives, New […]
By Nicole Thompson
THE CANADIAN PRESS
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Three of Ontario’s four main parties are pledging to reverse cuts to the province’s student assistance program, but they’ve all attached different price tags to the promise. The program that converted many student loans to grants and made tuition free for some students was turfed by the Progressive Conservatives after […]
By Brittany Hobson
THE CANADIAN PRESS
THE CANADIAN PRESS
WINNIPEG – Kseniia Zinenko stepped outside of the Winnipeg airport Monday evening after a nine-hour flight from Poland to Manitoba’s capital city. The 30-year-old is one of more than 300 Ukrainian nationals who were on a federally chartered flight to bring people fleeing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to Canada. “Very […]
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WAWA, Ont. – The wreckage of a small plane that disappeared last month in northern Ontario with two men aboard has been located in Lake Superior Provincial Park. Ontario Provincial Police say in a news release that one of their helicopters, along with a civilian helicopter, were conducting follow-up searches […]
