Local News from Across the Rainy River District
Picture this: You step into your garden, and the beds are brimming with flowers that thrive on benign neglect. You seldom need to water them, and they don’t require much in the way of fertilizer, either. What’s more, you feel like Snow White as birds, bees and butterflies congregate around […]
LONDON (AP) — Health officials say they have detected more cases of a mysterious liver disease in children that was first identified in Britain, with new infections spreading to Europe and the U.S. Last week, British officials reported 74 cases of hepatitis, or liver inflammation, found in children since January. […]
OTTAWA – Canadian human rights organizations say the 40th anniversary of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms is an opportunity to acknowledge its shortcomings and call for change. Sen. Marilou McPhedran, who was involved in campaigning for stronger gender protections through Section 28 of the Charter, hosted a news conference […]
HALIFAX – Two years after her father was gunned down by a man disguised as a Mountie, Charlene Bagley remains convinced he would be alive today had the Nova Scotia RCMP issued a provincewide alert early in the killer’s rampage. “He usually would check the news on Facebook,” Bagley said […]
TORONTO – As Ontario hospitals grapple with staffing pressures from the latest wave of COVID-19 cases, the provincial Opposition voiced concerns Wednesday that surgeries could again be cancelled, though health-care officials stressed that the current situation is manageable. The New Democrats asked what further steps the province would take to […]
TORONTO – Canada’s largest school board is asking staff and students to wear masks amid a resurgence of COVID-19 in Ontario, while another board in the province looks to reinstate a mask mandate. The Toronto District School Board says that although it takes its direction from the provincial government, which […]
OTTAWA – Members of the Canadian Armed Forces will depart from an Ontario military base in the coming days to help with the care, co-ordination and resettlement of Ukrainian refugees in Poland. Defence Minister Anita Anand says up to 150 troops will soon deploy from Canadian Forces Base Trenton after […]
VANCOUVER – Canada’s finance minister says it’s not the federal government’s job to build all the houses Canadians need, but it will try to remove roadblocks with a $4-billion fund earmarked to help boost housing construction announced in the budget. Chrystia Freeland told the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade on […]
TORONTO – Ontario won’t be reinstating its mask mandate despite a sixth wave that won’t peak for several more weeks, the province’s top doctor said Monday as he announced expanded eligibility for COVID-19 PCR testing and antiviral treatments. Public health indicators have been worsening recently, including the percentage of tests […]
MONTREAL – At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, retired teacher Lois Armstrong said local health officials where she lives in Kings- ton, Ont., provided daily up- dates about outbreaks, cases and deaths in the community. Now, Armstrong, 68, said the public is being asked to take a bigger role […]
HALIFAX – Nova Scotia RCMP say one man who was pulled from the waters around Peggy’s Cove has died and another taken out of the ocean has suffered life-threatening injuries. RCMP say the two men slipped off the rocks in the area southwest of Halifax at about 8:30 p.m. Monday. […]
Ontario’s top doctor is set to provide an update on COVID-19 in the province Monday for the first time since early March, as a report suggests several pandemic indicators have been on the rise since the province lifted its masking mandate. Dr. Kieran Moore is also expected to discuss access […]
