Local News from Across the Rainy River District
LONDON – The wine is out of this world. The price is appropriately stratospheric. Christie’s said Tuesday it is selling a bottle of French wine that spent more than a year in orbit aboard the International Space Station. The auction house thinks a wine connoisseur might pay as much as […]
TORONTO – Workers in Ontario will soon be able access three paid sick days to help them self-isolate during the pandemic, but critics said the policy announced Wednesday falls far short of what’s required to curb the spread of COVID-19. Premier Doug Ford’s government had for months resisted intense pressure […]
MONTREAL – Travel company Transat AT Inc. says it has reached a deal with Ottawa to borrow up to $700 million. The money will come through the federal government’s Large Employer Emergency Financing Facility, the same program used to help Air Canada. “The agreement reached with the government of Canada […]
VANCOUVER – Lawyers for Meng Wanzhou are expected to ask a B.C. Supreme Court judge today to delay the final leg of hearings in her extradition case. The court said in a statement last week that the Huawei executive’s application for an adjournment would be heard this morning. The hearings […]
DETROIT – Federal safety regulators have sent a team to investigate the fatal crash of a Tesla in a Houston suburb in which local authorities say no one was behind the wheel. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Monday it has sent a Special Crash Investigation team to Spring, […]
WASHINGTON – North American trade is facing a “critical moment” in the ongoing aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, say Canadian business leaders as they embark on a concerted campaign to fortify ties with the United States. The new Canada-U.S. “road map” partnership is the ideal platform to start reinforcing existing […]
United Airlines says it will train 5,000 this decade, including taking on applicants with no flying experience, and plans for half of them to be women or people of colour. United will borrow an approach used elsewhere, notably at Germany’s Lufthansa, by taking people at the beginning of their flying […]
ISMAILIA, Egypt – The Suez Canal chief said Tuesday that authorities are negotiating a financial settlement with the owners of a massive vessel that blocked the crucial waterway for nearly a week. Lt. Gen. Osama Rabie told The Associated Press he hoped talks with Shoei Kisen Kaisha Ltd., the Japanese […]
NEW YORK – The closing of physical libraries because of the pandemic has slowed but not stopped patrons and others from calling for books to be banned or restricted. On Monday, the American Library Association reported more than 270 challenges to books in 2020, from Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” […]
TORONTO – Two stars of the soon-to-be-finished series “Kim’s Convenience” are each getting their own show, one of which is a spinoff created by the showrunner of the CBC hit comedy. The public broadcaster says Nicole Power and Andrew Phung will star in new, half-hour original comedies set to launch […]
NEW YORK – A graphic novel for children from the wildly popular “Captain Underpants” series is being pulled from library and book store shelves after its publisher said it “perpetuates passive racism.” The book under scrutiny is 2010’s “The Adventures of Ook and Gluk” by Dav Pilkey, who has apologized, […]
One year to get a 12-speed chain. Five hundred days for a new saddle. And up to a two year wait until certain bike models come back in stock. These are the wait times that retailers like Sweet Pete’s Bike Shop in Toronto say customers can expect to wait if […]
