Local News from Across the Rainy River District
IQALUIT, Nunavut – Former laboratory technologists in Iqaluit say their not receiving a bonus given to Nunavut nursing staff led them to resign after years of burnout and a lack of support. Four of the techs who left spoke to The Canadian Press on the condition that they would remain […]
OTTAWA – Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly says Canada will join allies in imposing severe sanctions on Russian officials if the country takes further military action to compromise Ukrainian sovereignty. Russia has positioned about 100,000 troops across Ukraine’s borders along with tanks and other heavy artillery, stoking fears across Europe […]
A snowstorm that closed schools in parts of southern Ontario and Quebec on Monday will keep many of them dark for another day, while some parts of the Prairies that were already hit with freezing rain are now contending with plunging temperatures and snow. Several boards in the Toronto area, […]
TORONTO – Ontario is reporting a record 4,183 people in hospital with COVID-19, including 580 people in intensive care. That’s up from 3,887 in hospitals on Monday, though not all hospitals report data from the weekends. There are 37 new COVID-19 deaths being reported today. Ontario is reporting 7,086 new […]
TORONTO – Half of Ontarians who died of an opioid overdose in the early stages of the pandemic had interacted with the health-care system in the month before their deaths, a new report shows. And one in four had seen a doctor, gone to an emergency department or been discharged […]
OTTAWA – Newly released documents show the Finance Department last year warned that the pace of price increases could gain speed, even as the Liberal government and central bank maintained that inflationary pressures were temporary. In a briefing note to Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland from the spring, officials outlined “the […]
Three children from one family died in a house fire in northwestern Ontario Thursday night as firefighters raced against time and unusable hydrants, a First Nation chief said Friday. Sandy Lake First Nation Chief Delores Kakegamic said the fire began around 11:30 p.m. Thursday. She said the eldest of three […]
Most Ontario school boards have returned to in-person learning today; a handful are grappling with a winter storm which hit parts of southern Ontario. The province shifted to online learning after the winter break, so schools not shuttered by snow will be reopening for the first time in nearly a […]
TORONTO – Most Ontario long-term care workers have just under two weeks to get their third COVID-19 vaccine doses, but union and industry groups say more time is needed to meet the government’s target as staff infections reach record levelsand workers struggle to access appointments. The government has mandated booster […]
OTTAWA – Canada is advising residents against taking non-essential trips to Ukraine because of the buildup of Russian troops near the country’s border. The change in risk level comes amid fears of a Russian invasion. Ottawa says Russia’s military presence has been increasing since last fall and advises Canadians who […]
EDMONTON – Hospital emergency rooms in Alberta are likely to assess complaints from First Nations people as less urgent than those from other patients, even when their problems are the same, says a new study that looked at millions of such visits. “If people have a long bone fracture, you […]
IQALUIT, Nunavut – Eric Lawlor was in a meeting about a tuberculosis outbreak in his community in December when he got a call from Nunavut’s top doctor telling him a resident had just tested positive for COVID-19. The mayor of Pangnirtung says the COVID-19 case quickly became his biggest concern. […]
