Local News from Across the Rainy River District
In recent years, the town of St. Andrews in south- western New Brunswick – at one point home to 13 deer per square kilometre – has approved an annual nuisance deer hunt, but it takes place on private land during the regular hunting season. HALIFAX – Fed up with nuisance […]
TORONTO – Students and staff in Ontario schools will each eventually get two rapid tests to use if they develop COVID-19 symptoms, but won’t be notified if their peers and colleagues are off sick until a third of the school is absent. The province anticipates many staff will have isolate […]
OTTAWA – A new report suggests Canada is not doing enough to adapt to and prevent the effects of climate change and is lacking the critical data it needs to do so. “I mean, 2021 has really now been a wake-up call that these are no longer sort of one-off […]
MONTREAL – Quebec’s announcement that it would tax unvaccinated residents sparked strong reaction and pushed Canadian premiers to take a position on it, but the province’s official Opposition says it’s unconvinced the government will go ahead with its threat. Describing Quebec Premier Francois Legault’s plan as a “trial balloon,” Liberal […]
TORONTO – Ontario students will return to school classrooms on Jan. 17, Premier Doug Ford’s office told The Canadian Press. The government had previously said schools would move to online learning until “at least” that date amid widespread transmission of the Omicron variant, but the premier’s office now says they […]
A few members of the Canadian Armed Forces are on the ground in Bearskin Lake First Nation in northern Ontario to assist the community amid a COVID-19 outbreak that has infected half of its population. A spokeswoman for federal Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair said four Rangers are there to […]
TORONTO – New school guidance from the Ontario government says that only certain students and teachers who show symptoms of COVID-19 will have access to PCR tests when schools reopen to in-person learning next week. The Ministry of Health document says take-home PCR self-collection kits will only be provided to […]
TORONTO – Ontario is reporting 3,220 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 and 477 people in intensive care. There are 250 patients on ventilators due to COVID-19. Twenty-one new virus-related deaths were reported. The province reported 7,951 new cases, but Public Health Ontario says the real number is likely higher due to […]
OTTAWA – A new poll suggests a slim majority of Canadians support the latest round of lockdowns and other government-imposed restrictions as the Omicron variant continue to fuel an explosion in new COVID-19 infections. Fifty-six per cent of respondents in the poll conducted by Leger and the Association of Canadian […]
TORONTO – Ontario is reporting 438 people in intensive care with COVID-19 and 2,467 people hospitalized with the virus in total. Health Minister Christine Elliott shared the figures noting that not all hospitals report data from the weekend. The province reported 9,706 new COVID-19 cases, but Public Health Ontario has […]
VANCOUVER – Hospitals in several parts of Canada are straining under the weight of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, with Quebec hospitalizations reaching an all-time high on Sunday and Ontario’s admissions to intensive care units surging past the 400 mark. New Brunswick’s hospitals also hovered near their highest levels since […]
EDMONTON – Alberta doesn’t have a good grasp of the overall environmental impacts of the oilsands a decade after implementing monitoring that was supposed to provide it, internal government documents suggest. In July, Alberta Environment and Parks surveyed doz- ens of scientists and other participants in the Oilsands Monitoring Program, […]
