Local News from Across the Rainy River District
Pandemic lockdowns will be remembered for the amount of time they forced us to stay indoors. For many teachers trying to keep young minds alert and educated over the last two years, they decided to do the opposite. When public health measures were put in place to slow the spread […]
BARRIERE, B.C. – The mayor of a small community in British Columbia’s southern Interior is calling for flexibility around which first responders are allowed to take patients to hospital after an infant reportedly died while waiting for an ambulance. Mayor Ward Stamer said his community of Barriere, B.C., has a […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – In Mississippi’s capital, emergency officials are going to distribute bottled water to residents, a local university is using temporary restrooms for students and people who do have water are boiling it to wash dishes as a longstanding water crisis exacerbated by recent flooding is causing low-water […]
Elon Musk and Twitter lobbed salvos at each other Tuesday in the latest round of legal filings over the billionaire Tesla CEO’s efforts to rescind his offer to buy the social media platform. Musk filed more paperwork to terminate his agreement to buy Twitter, this time based on information in […]
TORONTO – Danny Jansen, the ninth hitter in the Toronto Blue Jays lineup, has turned into a late-game RBI machine. Jansen belted a three-run homer in the seventh to spirit the Blue Jays comeback on Monday and completed the deal with a walk-off single to left field in the 11th […]
Hockey Canada’s board of directors says it is supporting president and chief executive officer Scott Smith and his executive team amid calls for leadership change at the organization. Hockey Canada interim board chair Andrea Skinner announced the backing of the organization’s executive in a statement posted Monday on its website. […]
NEW YORK (AP) – When Serena Williams won the 1999 U.S. Open for her first Grand Slam title at age 17, she wore white beads in her hair. On Monday night, when Williams won her first match of the 2022 U.S. Open at age 40, her daughter, Olympia, was courtside, […]
The federal government is expanding and extending a program that helps create a pathway to permanent residency for skilled foreign workers wanting to live in the region. On Friday, Sean Fraser the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship announced the changes to the Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot. Thunder Bay […]
A participant in the Seven Generations Creativity Camp assembles a ribbon skirt in the school’s Makerspace. The weekly camps have been teaching participlants a wide variety of skills throughout the summer. Look for a story on the Creativity Camps in this Wednesday’s Times. – Daniel Adam photo
A new report on opioid-related deaths in Ontario is just the latest alarm bell in Sudbury’s ongoing opioid and overdose crisis. According to the report from Ontario’s Office of the Chief Coroner, Sudbury, like other cities across Northern Ontario, has seen a significant increase in the number of opioid-related deaths […]
Ontario’s science table advising the provincial government on the COVID-19 pandemic will be disbanded early next month, the group said, a day after issuing a back-to-school note on how to deal with a virus set to affect its fourth school year. “The COVID-19 pandemic continues, and it contributes to Ontario’s […]
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called for political leaders to take a united stance against threats of violence and intimidation on Sunday, days after his deputy was confronted in Alberta by a man who repeatedly yelled profanity at her and called her a traitor. A video circulating online over the weekend […]
