Local News from Across the Rainy River District
The national women’s curling championship will take place over the next week at Thunder Bay’s Fort William Gardens as planned – but with virtually no live spectators, at least at the outset. The tournament was given the go-ahead last week from the Ontario Health Ministry, following a modified plan proposed […]
Priorities for local MP include propping up the tourism industry, tackling the drug overdose crisis and recruiting more medical doctors As 2022 takes off in full swing, Thunder Bay-Rainy River MP Marcus Powlowski has several big-ticket items on his parliamentary plate that he’s keeping an eye on. In conversation with […]
Like the year before it, 2021 was in many ways ruled by the COVID-19 pandemic, and not everyone was impacted the same way – something our Member of Parliament is well aware of. Speaking with the Fort Frances Times to both look back on the year that was and look […]
TORONTO – Breanna Reid-Clarke has attended all her university classes over the last two years from her bedroom and it’s taking a toll. Studying from home as a result of the pandemic has meant feeling isolated, and has brought challenges in building strong connections with colleagues and instructors, says the […]
TORONTO – More than 300 Ontario schools reported staff and student absences of more than 30 per cent by the end of last week, after students returned for in-person learning following the latest pandemic-related shutdown. But the data includes all absences, not just those that might be related to COVID-19, […]
OSLO (AP) – Every member of Norway’s men’s cross-country skiing team is isolating ahead of next month’s Beijing Olympics because a coach has contracted the coronavirus. Sprint team head coach Arild Monsen tested positive for COVID-19 after returning to Norway from the Italian Alpine resort of Seiser Alm, the Norwegian […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
