Local News from Across the Rainy River District
TORONTO – Ontario will keep capacity limits in place for at least a month longer than planned in some settings where proof of vaccination is required, following a rise in COVID-19 cases. Night clubs, strip clubs, sex clubs and bathhouses were expected to remove caps on the number of patrons […]
TORONTO – Ontario Premier Doug Ford is highlighting the contribution of Canadian soldiers who served in Afghanistan in a Remembrance Day ceremony this morning. Speaking outside the Ontario legislature, Ford noted this year marks 20 years since the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center and the start […]
THE CANADIAN PRESS More than 213,000 Ontarians have received a third dose of a COVID-19 vaccine so far as the province takes a phased approach to boosters, making them available first to people who are at higher risk of contracting the virus. Eligibility expanded to several new groups – about […]
CALEDON, Ont. – Ontario Premier Doug Ford wants municipalities to wait for his government to strike a deal with Ottawa on child care instead of trying to start their own negotiations, saying they might undermine provincial efforts. “I’m pleading with the municipalities: don’t divide and try to conquer. It just […]
Doug Ford says Ontario’s pit bull ban isn’t going to change right now as he expresses sympathy for a boy bitten by a dog that had drawn the attention of the premier. The dog was seized by Vaughan Animal Services a month ago on suspicion of being a pit bull […]
WASHINGTON – Canada, the United States and Mexico are getting the band back together. U.S. President Joe Biden will host Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador at the White House next week, the first gathering of the so-called Three Amigos since the dawn of the […]
OTTAWA – Donning masks alongside poppies in the November chill, Canadians returned to cenotaphs and monuments across much of the country on Thursday morning to remember and pay their respects to those who fought and died in service of the country. This year’s Remembrance Day ceremonies stand in stark contrast […]
IQALUIT, Nunavut – A flowing river that turns to solid ice in October, freezing pipes and frosty arctic temperatures are all routine for Nunavummiut. But those issues were a first for a water treatment system previously used by the Canadian Armed Forces in places, including Haiti after the 2010 earthquake […]
TORONTO – The Ontario government says it will not seek to take a legal fight over post-secondary student fees to Canada’s highest court. A spokesperson for the minister of colleges and universities says the province will not file an appeal with the Supreme Court of Canada after its directive making […]
TORONTO – COVID-19 cases are on the rise again in Ontario in a trend experts attribute to cooling temperatures, lifting capacity limits and less stringent precautions among the public. “We’re definitely out of the honeymoon phase and back in the fourth wave,” Dr. Peter Juni, scientific director for Ontario’s COVID-19 […]
Ontario is reporting 441 new COVID-19 cases and three more deaths from the virus. Health Minister Christine Elliott says 268 of the new infections are in people who are not fully vaccinated or whose vaccination status is unknown. She says 173 of the new cases are in fully vaccinated people. […]
TORONTO – Muslim leaders are calling on Ontario to take action against Islamophobia. Imam Aarij Anwer of the London Muslim Mosque said Monday that the province should tackle the issue now and not wait for the results of next year’s election. A Muslim family from Anwer’s mosque was killed after […]
