Local News from Across the Rainy River District
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is set to meet Sunday with leaders of rural, remote and northern communities to discuss their housing challenges as issues of rapid price growth and lack of supply are felt far beyond urban borders. The talks come after the premier and Municipal Affairs and Housing Minister […]
TORONTO – Ontario is set to start sharing data about school absences today, a week after in-person learning resumed without public reporting of classroom COVID-19 exposures. The province moved its schools to remote learning at the end of the winter break as Omicron cases surged to unprecedented levels and overwhelmed […]
An organization representing Ontario home-care providers says the same factors leading to staffing shortages throughout the workforce have left the already beleaguered sector in crisis. Home Care Ontario says that before the COVID-19 pandemic, providers fulfilled requests for care 95 per cent of the time. As of Dec. 31, 2021, […]
TORONTO – Health Minister Christine Elliott says the first shipment of an antiviral COVID-19 treatment has arrived in Ontario. The oral antiviral drug Paxlovid is meant to protect against hospitalization and death. Elliott has previously said Ontario was set to receive 10,000 courses of treatment in January, and she says […]
WASHINGTON – A Florida man is set to appear in U.S. court today, charged with sneaking migrants across the Canada-U.S. border in a perilous human-smuggling scheme that cost the lives of four people, including an infant. Steve Shand, 47, will appear by video before a Minnesota judge for a detention […]
OTTAWA – A federation representing truckers across Canada has denounced a series of planned protests against the federal government’s cross-border travel vaccine mandate, arguing such demonstrations aren’t a safe or effective way of resisting the policy. The Canadian Trucking Alliance spoke out against the pending protests in a statement issued […]
IQALUIT, Nunavut – Nunavut has become the latest jurisdiction to sign onto the federal government’s $10-a-day child-care program. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the $66-million deal virtually this morning with Nunavut Premier P.J. Akeeagok joining from a daycare in Iqaluit. Trudeau says the deal means Nunavut’s daycare fees will be […]
MONTREAL – The senior military officer once tasked with overseeing Canada’s COVID-19 vaccination drive will be in a Quebec courtroom today to face allegations of sexual misconduct. Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin was charged with one count of sexual assault in August 2021, related to an alleged incident in 1988. Fortin has […]
Halifax artist Jessica Wiebe served eight years in the Canadian Armed Forces as an artillery gunner, often the lone woman in a male-dominated environment. Now she draws on that experience, and her mental and physical struggles after leaving the military, to create her art. “I really want to bring awareness […]
A study on indoor air quality and housing characteristics in isolated First Nations communities found elevated rates of respiratory infections and wheezing in young children, which authors associate with poor conditions within their homes. Researchers analyzed factors that could affect respiratory health in four First Nations communities in the Sioux […]
TORONTO – Ontario is reporting 4,061 people in hospital with COVID-19 and 594 people in intensive care units. That’s the second day in a row that the number of hospitalizations has fallen, from a peak Tuesday of 4,183, though the ICU occupancy is still rising. The province reports that another […]
TORONTO — With key public health and health care indicators starting to show signs of improvement, the Ontario government, in consultation with the Chief Medical Officer of Health, today released details of steps to cautiously and gradually ease public health measures, starting on January 31, 2022. “The evidence tells us […]
