Local News from Across the Rainy River District
OTTAWA – The police presence in downtown Ottawa is growing as efforts to begin clearing a three-week long occupation around Parliament Hill appear imminent but the antigovernment demonstrators aren’t buckling. With rain and sleet falling on the nation’s capital, workers began erecting fencing around Parliament Hill and several other buildings […]
OTTAWA – The Conservative party is turning to a one-time chief of staff to former prime minister Stephen Harper to head the committee setting the rules for the party’s leadership race. Ian Brodie, now an associate professor at the University of Calgary, will chair the leadership election organizing committee that […]
TORONTO – Ontario is reporting 1,550 people in hospital with COVID-19 and 384 people in ICU. That’s down from 2,254 hospitalizations and 446 intensive care patients one week ago. There are 19 more COVID-19 deaths being reported today. Ontario is reporting 1,593 new COVID-19 cases, though limits on access to […]
TORONTO – A Toronto school board has launched its own investigation into a school shooting that left an 18-year-old student dead. A Grade 12 male student was shot and killed inside David and Mary Thomson Collegiate Institute in eastern Toronto around 3 p.m. Monday, shortly after school ended for the […]
OTTAWA – The federal move to invoke the Emergencies Act could allow authorities to forbid more large trucks from rolling into the gridlocked area around Parliament Hill. The Liberal government’s decision Monday to use the law for the first time also gives officials more muscle to shut down gatherings likely […]
HALIFAX – The public inquiry investigating the 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia that claimed 22 lives is facing intense criticism from victims’ relatives one week before the proceedings are to begin. The law firm that represents most of the family members issued a statement late Monday saying its clients […]
OTTAWA – The committee of MPs and senators which oversees federal security policy has uncovered gaps in Canada’s cyberdefences that could leave many agencies vulnerable to state-sponsored hackers from countries like China and Russia. In a new report, the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians says cyberthreats to government […]
TORONTO – Ontario is ending its vaccine certificate system on March 1, when capacity limits will lift as well, Premier Doug Ford announced Monday, though he said masking requirements will remain for now. Ford insisted the step is not a result of pressure from anti-vaccine mandate protesters. “Today’s announcement is […]
TORONTO – Ontario continues to see a decline in the number of COVID-19 cases, deaths and admissions to provincial hospitals and intensive care units. The province says there were 1,540 people in hospital due to the virus on Saturday, of which 402 were in intensive care. That’s down from the […]
WINDSOR, ONTARIO – Commercial trucks and other vehicles are flowing normally over the reopened Ambassador Bridge today, with police keeping a close watch on the busy international border crossing. Traffic resumed on the key trade route just before midnight after it was blocked for nearly a week due to a […]
Ottawa’s mayor has set a deadline of noon today for truckers encamped in the capital’s core to move out of residential streets in a bid to pare down the size of the protest’s footprint. Mayor Jim Watson outlined the proposal in a letter released on Sunday as part of a […]
EDMONTON – The federal government has bowed to provincial and industry lobbying in weakening proposed standards for coal mining effluent, critics say. A discussion document for draft regulations, released earlier this year, would double the amount of toxins – such as selenium – the mines are allowed to release and […]
