Local News from Across the Rainy River District
Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives have pledged to set up a $500-million critical mineral processing fund to invest in “strategically located” facilities to develop the province’s vast resources of lithium, graphite, zinc, cobalt and other key minerals and metals. The fund, a central economic plank in the party’s re-election platform released on Monday, is […]
KENORA – Anicinabe Park will continue to be run by a private contractor, city councillors decided last week. City administration had proposed putting management of the park near Wauzhushk Onigum Nation back in municipal hands, but the proposal had its critics at Tuesday’s council meeting. Coun. Graham Chaze was among […]
The Phragmites Working Group Lake Bernard has several suggestions for the next Ontario Government on how to better tackle invasive plant species. Spokesperson Marilee Koenderink says the Sundridge-area group — also known as Phrag Fighters — wants to see more adequate funding for agencies that take on non-native plants. This […]
The federal government is investing more than $1.5 million into Manitoba’s tourism industry, as the feds look to see more Canadians and Manitobans taking trips in their own backyard. “Every trip, from a quick weekend getaway or a long-awaited cross-country vacation helps create jobs, sustain livelihoods, and boost the businesses […]
The City of Brandon has joined a growing chorus of Manitoba municipalities and organizations asking for bail reform and for the justice system to keep repeat offenders behind bars and off the streets. “For us, it is a real drain on our police resources to have our police continuously having […]
Health officials confirmed 11 more measles cases in Norfolk residents over the weekend, bringing the current tally to 68 — surpassing the 64 cases reported in Ontario for all of last year. Since January, the highly contagious virus has hit 55 children and 13 adults in the Grand Erie region, […]
A Winnipeg firm that owns several northern airlines has announced it plans to buy Canadian North, the airline that serves the Arctic. Exchange Income Corp. said it made a deal to buy Bradley Air Services Ltd., which operates as Canadian North, for $205 million from the two Inuit organizations that […]
The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) has invoked its mandate in relation to separate incidents that took place in the City of Kenora and Pikangikum First Nation On February 16, 2025, at 5:00 a.m. in the City of Kenora, members of the Kenora Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) responded […]
KENORA — The federal government’s appointment of a longtime advocate for victims’ rights as chief adviser on human trafficking was great news to the coordinator of Treaty Three Police Service’s Maanaji’win Project. Gary Anandasangaree, the minister of Crown-Indigenous relations, announced Jennifer Richardson’s appointment to the adviser position, with a three-year […]
A decision by the Ministry of Natural Resource to allow a high-voltage power line to go through a portion of a protected area just west of Thunder Bay may be challenged at an Ontario Land Tribunal hearing. “We are currently filling out the paperwork to request a hearing, which we […]
Connecting the Toronto-Quebec City corridor with high speed rail could shave 39 million tonnes of carbon pollution in the coming decades, the equivalent of taking nine million gas powered cars off the road for a year, according to project documents. Transportation experts interviewed by Canada’s National Observer said a high-speed rail network […]
The business of running a cemetery should be on the shoulders of the province and country instead of municipalities, Tay Township Deputy Mayor Barry Norris said during a recent committee of the whole meeting. A report costing out the cemetery operations for 2024 was discussed at the meeting, as it […]
