Local News from Across the Rainy River District
This article was originally published on The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. We are facing a mental health crisis. Teenagers and young adults are more depressed, suicidal, anxious and lonely than ever before. Depression rates among teens have been increasing since […]
Family and students at the Fort Frances Nursery School had a special guest last week, when the Easter Bunny stopped by for a visit. The families shared a pancake breakfast, and lots of Easter fun.
VANCOUVER – A growing trend of online encrypted drug dealing needs more attention by police, a new study by British Columbia researchers says. Richard Frank, an associate professor of criminology at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C., said the encrypted markets are attractive to buyers and sellers for lower prices, […]
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A high school along Florida’s Atlantic Coast has removed a graphic novel based on the diary of Anne Frank after a leader of a conservative advocacy group challenged it, claiming it minimized the Holocaust. “Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation” was removed from a library at […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has begun sharing with a bipartisan group of lawmakers known as the Gang of Eight classified documents found in the possession of former President Donald Trump, President Joe Biden and former Vice President Mike Pence, according to five people familiar with the matter. Top […]
So this moose walks into an medical building… While that could be a setup to a bad joke, it actually happened in Anchorage on Thursday. A young moose trudging through the snow looking for a meal spotted green plants in the lobby of a medical building in the Providence Alaska […]
WREXHAM, Wales (AP) — Ryan Reynolds punched the air before turning to embrace Rob McElhenney as the Hollywood stars moved a big step closer to their dream of leading Welsh soccer team Wrexham to promotion. The pair celebrated at the end of a game that had all the thrills of […]
Thunder Bay, Ont. — A partnership between Supercom Industries LP and TBT Engineering is augmenting rail safety in Northwestern Ontario with a device called a Spring Drain or S-Drain. In 2020, inventor Gord Maki, a geotechnical engineer with TBT Engineering, designed and patented the S-Drain that can stabilize railbeds in […]
The morning Greg Ritchie died, he was on his way to the grocery store to purchase cake mix in an effort to cheer up his brother and sister-in-law. Chantel Ritchie, his sister-in-law, said it was a tradition of theirs to bake together. The three, who lived together, had been having […]
OTTAWA – John Scully has been living with a major depressive disorder diagnosis for four decades, and despite trying nearly every treatment known to medicine, from shock therapy to trans-magnetic stimulation, his condition has not improved. The 82-year-old says he wants that suffering to end. He wants to do it […]
OTTAWA – One of the longest House of Commons committee filibusters in the last 10 years was the recent marathon attempt by the Liberals to prevent the prime minister’s chief of staff from testifying about foreign interference. Throughout February and March, government members of the procedure and House affairs committee […]
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 […]
