Local News from Across the Rainy River District
People risk their lives battling forest fires, but Ontario’s government is treating them unfairly. That’s the message Thunder Bay-Superior North MPP Lise Vaugeois and others brought to a news conference Wednesday at Queen’s Park. Wildland firefighters are not getting the “supports and respect” they deserve, said Vaugeois, who is the […]
IGNACE – The Green Party of Ontario has dropped its opposition to nuclear power, and that has energized advocates for a nuclear waste repository in Northwestern Ontario. A resolution passed at the party’s 2024 convention in Kingston this past weekend embraces Canadian reactors as part of a mix of low-carbon-emission […]
The buzz of hundreds of children fell to silence Tuesday morning as a bagpipe player marched with a dozen uniformed military personnel behind him at the Brandon Municipal Cemetery. The annual No Stone Left Alone ceremony took place on the frosted grass at the cemetery Tuesday morning. Hundreds of children […]
The federal government has issued its first call for proposals for a new program dedicated to national Holocaust remembrance, which is also designed to address the rising threat of antisemitism across Canada. Ya’ara Saks, the associate federal minister of health, announced the project at the Toronto Holocaust Museum on behalf […]
Mississauga Fire’s Station 125 is up and running, but with a unique approach previously not seen in other municipal buildings in the city. Setting it apart from others constructed in recent years, the latest facility is designed around a model to achieve a net zero emissions footprint. Station 125, located […]
The Reeve of a rural Manitoba community hopes the federal government and local law enforcement have plans in place for a possible surge in illegal border crossings now that Donald Trump has won back the White House, because he said that responsibility can’t fall on individual border communities. “My sincere […]
Weechi-it-te-win Family Services will be wrapping up its annual Women’s Wellness Gathering with a Country Hoedown dance, which is free and open to everyone. A Country Hoedown Dance will be held on Friday, Nov. 8 at the Copper River Inn with doors opening at 7 p.m. “The Country Hoedown Dance […]
TORONTO – The Ontario government announced a $200 treat on Halloween for residents – a rebate that will be sent out in early 2025. Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy formally made the announcement when delivering his government’s fall economic statement. “At a time when the cost of living remains stubbornly high, […]
Researchers at the University of Guelph are taking a unique approach to environmental conservatorship: studying local fish species at the cardiovascular level. Master’s student Liz Manchester is currently studying how the hearts of zebrafish, a commonly used lab animal, are affected by hypoxia, a decreased level of oxygen in the […]
Amanda Colvin has experienced firsthand what it is like to watch an elderly family member suffer from isolation and loneliness. The Niagara-on-the-Lake home builder, along with her husband, Scott Colvin, has moved into the tiny home business, which they see as an opportunity to help ease the housing crunch and […]
THUNDER BAY – It seems that the public is getting fatigued by the council composition review process. Krista Power, director of legislative services and city clerk, told Newswatch, “we are finding that people are fatigued in having the conversation and potentially have given us their feedback. And they are not […]
Tributes continue to pour in for Murray Sinclair and one woman said it was the influential judge’s decision in a Winnipeg court room decades ago that helped her to turn her life around. “When I was a teenager, I was charged with a very violent crime and when it came […]
