Local News from Across the Rainy River District
Opioids killed more people in Ontario in the second year of the pandemic compared to the first, but the province saw a drop in those deaths this past March, newly released data shows. About eight people per day died from opioids in the second year of the pandemic, preliminary data […]
Hudson and Georgia Yellowega along with their cousins Stella & Scarlett Anderson hosted a lemonade stand to help passers-by beat the heat. -Brittany Anderson
Ontario education workers including librarians, custodians and administrative staff could walk off the job as early as October, after their union set a strike vote. The Canadian Union of Public Employees, which represents 55,000 workers, will open voting for members from Sept. 23 to Oct. 2 on whether to set […]
Riverside Health Care in conjunction with the Northwestern Health Unit has declared the COVID-19 Outbreak at Rainycrest Long Term Care Home over. Riverside continues to have our detailed safety procedures and infection prevention control practices in place, which are designed to ensure the health and safety of our staff, the […]
OTTAWA – It sounds like a caper from a movie: a thief seems to have swapped out the famous portrait of a scowling Sir Winston Churchill, photographed by Yousuf Karsh in 1941, with a signed copy. A staff member at Ottawa’s Chateau Laurier noticed on Friday that the frame in […]
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the German chancellor are visiting the western Newfoundland town of Stephenville later today, where they’re set to sign a green energy deal. A local company has plans to build a zero-emission plant that will use wind energy to produce hydrogen and ammonia for […]
When Guatemalan investigators raided the home of the alleged leader of a migrant smuggling ring in mountains near the Mexican border, they found some $51,000 in coins, nearly 100 slot machines and late-model vehicles purchased with cash. They arrested David Coronado Perez and nine others, three of whom were lawyers […]
Schools in Bangladesh will close an additional day each week and government offices and banks will shorten their work days by an hour to reduce electricity usage amid concerns over rising fuel prices and the impact of the Ukraine war. The reduced hours take effect Wednesday. In Bangladesh, most schools […]
A man has died after falling from a peak in the Austrian Alps as he was trying to take a photo of a companion with whom he had reached the summit, police said Tuesday. The 77-year-old German and his companion, a 63-year-old Spanish woman, hiked to the Greitspitze – a […]
Ken Dryden didn’t want to write about the 1972 Summit Series. The Hall of Fame goalie has, over the past 50 years, helped with projects about the historic games between Canada and Russia, but whenever someone asked him to pen a book on the subject, he politely declined. The stories […]
Under threat of Russian attacks in a war that stopped all soccer in Ukraine in February, a new league season starts Tuesday in Kyiv with the goal of restoring some sense of normal life. The elegant Olympic Stadium has staged the biggest European soccer games in the past decade though […]
As of July 29, there were 803 cases of monkeypox recorded here in Canada, with most of those cases, 726 of them, in Ontario and Quebec. The Bancroft Times speaks with Dr. Golden Gao, a medical consultant with Hastings Prince Edward Public Health about what people should know about Monkeypox […]
