Local News from Across the Rainy River District
THUNDER BAY, ONT. — Immigrants arriving in Northwestern Ontario to resettle and find employment through the federal Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot (RNIP) are facing a provincial tax barrier that could hinder them from purchasing a home. The 25 per cent non-resident speculation tax applies to foreign nationals who are […]
Tiny Crew is the sole survivor of a vicious dog attack on him and his siblings. He’s been left with a broken hip and is in need of extensive medical care. He’s had a rough start, but he’s currently in the care of Best for Kitty, and will be up […]
OTTAWA – The Liberal government is aiming to address evolving national security concerns by proposing several changes to Canada’s investment screening law, including giving broader powers to the industry minister. Proposed amendments to the Investment Canada Act would require foreign investors to notify the federal government about investments in certain […]
LONDON (AP) – George “Johnny” Johnson, the last known survivor of Britain’s daring World War II “Dambusters” bombing raid on German infrastructure, has died. He was 101. Britain’s national news agency, PA, said Johnson died peacefully at a care home in the Bristol area of southwest England on Wednesday night. […]
James Boyd had a lot more runway this time. Moved from last December and January to August because of COVID-19, the postponed and reimagined 2022 world junior hockey championship presented unique challenges. For the head of Hockey Canada’s management group, it was a daily battle just to figure out which […]
DOHA, Qatar (AP) – Qatar is investigating the death of a migrant worker who reportedly was killed while doing repairs at a resort that had served as the Saudi team’s training base during the World Cup. Nasser Al Khater, the head of Qatar’s organizing committee for the World Cup, expressed […]
NEW YORK (AP) – The Mendelson family would love to find the envelope where their father, Lee, scribbled some lyrics to jazz musician Vince Guaraldi’s composition “Christmas Time is Here” for an animated TV special featuring the “Peanuts” gang in 1965. The producer always said it had taken less than […]
Whether in cardboard, wood or porcelain, little villages – with houses, shops, miniature figures and snowy fir trees – have long been part of many families’ holiday decorating tradition. They’re also popular now as part of an ongoing love of the cozy and the do-it-yourself. “ Nostalgia is at the […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Comedian Jerrod Carmichael will host next month’s Golden Globe Awards, presiding over a boozy celebration of TV and film that is trying to make a comeback after being knocked off the air by scandal. Carmichael, who won an Emmy this year for his intimate HBO special […]
WASHINGTON (AP) – Russia freed WNBA star Brittney Griner on Thursday in a dramatic prisoner exchange, as the U.S. released notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout but failed to win freedom for another American, Paul Whelan, who has been jailed for nearly four years. The swap, at a time of […]
CALGARY – Canada’s junior hockey team is getting another big boost from the NHL. Hockey Canada says the Seattle Kraken have loaned forward Shane Wright to the team before the start of its selection camp in Moncton, N.B., for the upcoming world junior championship. The Kraken picked Wright fourth overall […]
NANTUCKET, Mass. (AP) – A bylaw that allows anyone, regardless of gender, to go topless on Nantucket’s beaches has been approved by the Massachusetts attorney general’s office. The Gender Equality on Beaches bylaw amendment passed 327-242 at the resort island’s town meeting in May, but the attorney general’s office had […]
