Local News from Across the Rainy River District
OTTAWA – Almost half of Canadians plan to abandon social distancing during holiday gatherings and hug, kiss and shake hands with friends and family, a new poll shows. The poll by Leger in collaboration with The Canadian Press found that 45 per cent of Canadians say they will “greet others […]
Ontario high schools will shift back to regular semesters no later than February, returning secondary students to a normal schedule for the first time since the onset of the pandemic. School boards will be able to make the change sooner if they have their local public health unit’s support, Education […]
TORONTO – Children aged five to 11 in Ontario will be eligible to book COVID-19 vaccine appointments starting Tuesday. Health Minister Christine Elliott said the province is set to receive a little over 400,000 vaccine doses from the federal government on Monday, followed by another shipment of a little over […]
ORILLIA, Ont. – The province says it is expanding a training program to help those looking for work in a different field. Ontario says there are 300,000 jobs available right now, but the province needs more workers to fill those roles. Premier Doug Ford says with the Second Career Program […]
TORONTO – A new audit has found the Ontario government ignored the public’s rights to consultation on environmentally significant decisions. The auditor general’s annual report on the environment found the Ministry of the Environment and several others deliberately avoided consulting the public on such decisions. Ontarians’ rights to public information […]
TORONTO – The Toronto District School Board is granting temporary exemptions for roughly 290 unvaccinated staff who otherwise would be placed on administrative leave until it can find temporary staff to fill the positions. In a memo sent to families, the school board says it continues to implement its COVID-19 […]
OTTAWA – Members of Parliament return to the House of Commons today for the first time in five months. It’s a new Parliament that looks almost identical to the old one, after an election Sept. 20 that saw only a handful of seats change hands and gave Justin Trudeau’s Liberals […]
British Columbia residents are being told to brace for more rain as an atmospheric river moves south, bringing more precipitation to areas already hit hard by last week’s floods and mudslides. Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement for British Columbia’s North Coast, warning of potential flooding and landslides […]
The first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines for children has arrived in Canada. A UPS plane touched down in Hamilton at around 5:15 p.m. carrying thousands of pediatric doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Health Canada approved the modified shot for use in kids aged five to 11 on Friday, and the […]
Ontario is reporting 711 new COVID-19 cases and five more deaths from the virus today. Health Minister Christine Elliott says 397 of the infected people are not fully vaccinated or have an unknown vaccination status. She says 314 of the cases are in fully vaccinated people. It’s the highest number […]
A late-night evacuation passenger train carrying about 200 people stranded for days by British Columbia’s mudslides and floods left Hope for Vancouver Wednesday. Jonathan Abecassis, a spokesman for Canadian National, said the emergency evacuation train was expected to arrive in Vancouver shortly after 10 p.m. “It’s a joint operation,” he […]
WASHINGTON – Canada and Mexico will redistribute millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses they received from the United States to other Western Hemisphere countries as a part of today’s revived Three Amigos leaders’ summit. Senior U.S. government officials outlined the measure in advance of today’s meeting that President Joe Biden is […]
