Local News from Across the Rainy River District
KENORA – A “critical shortage” of physicians has the Lake of the Woods District Hospital’s emergency department on the brink of closure, hospital officials say. The hospital has gone from having 20 physicians who worked in emergency in early 2022 to just nine part-time ER docs today, according to a […]
MORRISBURG – Back-to-school means new restrictions are in place for students when it comes to cell phones and smoking. Announced last spring, the provincial government is restricting cell phone use by students during school hours. This includes access to certain websites and applications on school internet networks like Facebook, Instagram, […]
With the risk for new wildland fires remaining in the high range in rural areas near Thunder Bay, some affected municipalities are reminding residents to put off brush-burning and lighting camp fires until dusk. A bulletin posted on Tuesday on Shuniah’s Fire and Emergency Services department website was to-the-point: “No daytime burning […]
As parents prepare to send their kids back to school some oppose new rules that will ban cell phones from Manitoba classrooms and intend to send their kids to school with their phones. “Yes, my children will still be bringing their devices, and no I do not believe they should […]
Ottawa, ON – September 4, 2024 – The Tourism Industry Association of Canada (TIAC) is urging the federal government to take the necessary steps to prevent a looming labour disruption at Air Canada. The potential strike comes at a time when the Canadian tourism industry is still reeling from recent […]
A Tyendinaga man accused of unprecedented drug and gun crimes has been denied bail. A bail hearing for Matthew Boldrick took place on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024, before Justice of the Peace Deanne Chapelle at the Ontario Court of Justice on Dundas Street in Napanee. Of the four Boldrick family […]
THORNBURY — The Ontario government is investing up to $6 million in the Ontario Craft Cider Marketing Fund over the next six years to help provincial craft cideries market their products to more consumers and stimulate growth across the sector. “Our government is supporting Ontario cideries in reaching more local […]
Nobody in a canoe that capsized Monday in St. Thomas resulting in one man’s death was wearing life-jackets, city police said. Three adults were canoeing on Lake Margaret – a small lake created by gravel mining in the city’s south end – when the canoe tipped about 8 a.m. Two […]
Police Believe There May Be More Victims (ORILLIA, ON) – A 10-month interprovincial human trafficking investigation has resulted in two arrests and numerous charges. In September 2023, the Provincial Human Trafficking Intelligence-led Joint Forces Strategy (IJFS) launched Project Nebula, in response to reports of suspected human trafficking in eastern Ontario. […]
POLICE BRIEFS (NIPIGON, ON) – The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is advising the public that one individual has been apprehended and the Lockdown/Hold and Secures at Nipigon and Red Rock schools have been lifted. On September 4, 2024 at approximately 1:03 p.m., the OPP received a report of a threat […]
Fort Frances Express Oil Change owner Trevor Bowles pulled the winning ticket for the 2024 Fort Frances Kiwanis Club’s British Isles Trip of the Month draw for September on Tuesday, September 3, 2024. Angel McCormack and Brittany Corrigal are the winners of a Devon and Cornwall trip, valued at $4,100. […]
A perceived lack of nursing support formed a wedge between the doctors of Rainy River and Riverside health Care. However, Riverside maintains that their staffing choices were appropriate to the community, with more changes in the works moving forward. According to Dr Joe Ennett, the physicians had requested a second […]
