Local News from Across the Rainy River District
OTTAWA – More than 155,000 public servants are now on strike after the country’s biggest federal public-sector union and the government failed to reach a deal by a Tuesday evening deadline. Federal departments and agencies have released a list of services that may be disrupted during the strike. Here’s an […]
NEW YORK (AP) — After Ben Affleck and Matt Damon test screened their Nike drama “Air,” the film executives at Amazon Studios threw them a curveball. “They said, ‘What do you guys think about a theatrical release?’” Damon says. “It wasn’t what we expected when we first made the deal.” […]
TORONTO – Ontario is proposing to lower the minimum age for lifeguards to 15, in part to address staff shortages many municipalities experienced last summer. Regulations in the province’s Health Protection and Promotion Act currently say all lifeguards, assistant lifeguards, aquatic instructors and coaches must be at least 16 years […]
OTTAWA – The Opposition Conservatives are asking Twitter to apply a “government-funded” label on accounts associated with the CBC, even as other broadcasters decry the tag for not making clear their editorial independence. On Tuesday, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre tweeted a copy of a letter addressed to the company making […]
OAKVILLE, Ont. – Ford Motor Co. has revealed some details of its plan to spend $1.8 billion on its Oakville Assembly Complex to turn it into an electric vehicle production hub. The automaker said Tuesday that it will start retooling the Ontario complex in the second quarter of 2024 and […]
OTTAWA – The Canadian economy added 35,000 jobs in March amid strong population growth, keeping the unemployment rate steady at near record lows, even as the economy wrestles with high interest rates. In its latest labour force survey, Statistics Canada said Thursday the unemployment rate came in at five per […]
In American writer Mark Twain’s autobiography, he quotes — or perhaps misquotes — former British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli as saying: “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” In a marvellous leap forward, artificial intelligence combines all three in a tidy little package. ChatGPT, and other […]
TORONTO – RBC says Canadians are continuing to spend on holidays and non-essential services, but are cutting back on restaurants and goods. The bank’s latest spending tracker report says while overall spending was steady in March, there were some signs of weakness in goods spending, mirroring a pullback in auto […]
VICTORIA – British Columbia’s minimum wage will increase to $16.75 an hour, a boost that the government said would fulfill a promise to tie the benchmark pay level to inflation. The new minimum wage will kick in on June 1, representing a 6.9 per cent increase from the current $15.65 […]
TORONTO – A lawyer for Canadian pop star Danny Fernandes says the singer is confident he will be able to rebuild his career after the CBC published an investigation that alleged he took thousands of dollars from aspiring musicians. “He is confident through our joint efforts in rehabilitation and restitution […]
TORONTO – Scott Griffin is shaking up the Canadian poetry landscape for the second time in a year, lending his name to the Writers’ Trust poetry prize and more than doubling its purse. The move, which turns the Latner Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize into the Latner Griffin Writers’ Trust Poetry […]
The former head of a Michigan medical marijuana licensing board has agreed to plead guilty to accepting $110,000 in bribes to influence his decisions when he led the panel over a two-year period, authorities said Thursday. Charges against Rick Johnson and three other men were announced by U.S. Attorney Mark […]
