A prominent member of the business community lost his life over the weekend, following a tragic accident on Rainy Lake. Brian Craig Sanders of Fort Frances, owner of the Place, succumbed to injuries sustained after two personal watercrafts collided on Rainy Lake, according to Rainy River District OPP. On July […]
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Steve Gushulak, left, of Fort Frances General Supply pulled the winning ticket for the Fort Frances Kiwanis Club’s Trip of the Month draw for August this morning alongside Kiwanis member Karla Rogozinski and her grandkids Kiplin and Aspen Avis. Sarah Olson is the winner of a trip to Arizona, valued […]
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Members from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) would like to remind everyone to please do your homework prior to giving any personal information or sending money, cryptocurrency or prepaid gift cards to anyone. Every year thousands of Canadians are victimized, and millions of dollars are lost through many forms of […]
THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA – Some travellers keen to get their passports will now be able to request their mail-in applications be transferred to any of the more than 300 local Service Canada centres for processing. They can also now do so even if their need for a passport is slightly less urgent, […]
By Paola Loriggio
THE CANADIAN PRESS
THE CANADIAN PRESS
People who call for an ambulance in Ontario may have to wait longer for one to arrive as health-care staffing shortages and recent temporary emergency room closures slow down emergency services’ response, a paramedics’ group said Friday. Ambulance offload delays – when paramedics wait in an emergency department for a […]
By Holly McKenzie-Sutter and Maan Alhmidi
THE CANADIAN PRESS
THE CANADIAN PRESS
TORONTO – Ontario parents expressed excitement and relief Thursday as the province opened COVID-19 vaccine bookings for babies and preschoolers, with shots for some set to be administered later in the day. Appointments for children aged six months to under five years were available through the province’s online booking portal, […]
By J.P. Antonacci
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The Hamilton Spectator
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The Hamilton Spectator
As Pope Francis ends his self-described “penitential pilgrimage” across Canada, residential school survivors and their advocates are turning up the pressure on the Vatican to release its records pertaining to the schools. “I’ve been in the job for just over a month now, and every single community I’ve been to, […]
By Jacob Serebrin
THE CANADIAN PRESS
THE CANADIAN PRESS
MONTREAL – Growing inequality could reverse a decade of progress made in the fight against HIV, the director-general of the World Health Organization told an international AIDS conference in Montreal Monday. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who addressed the AIDS 2022 conference by video, said the “overlapping crises” of COVID-19, inflation and […]
By Marie-Danielle Smith
THE CANADIAN PRESS
THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA – Despite pandemic slowdowns, Correctional Service Canada is still planning to expand the needle exchange programs currently offered at nine federal prisons, government officials say. At a presentation given to the International AIDS Conference in Montreal on Friday, Henry de Souza, the agency’s director general of clinical services and […]
THE CANADIAN PRESS
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Justice says a Saudi-born Canadian citizen was sentenced to life in prison Friday for conspiring to provide support resulting in death to the terrorist organization ISIS. The Department of Justice statement says Mohammed Khalifa, 39, pleaded guilty last December in District Court for the […]
By Jessica Damiano
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
As I write this, I can hear a cardinal trilling in the backyard. I don’t have to look out the open window to confirm the source of the sounds that come through it; I’ve come to recognize the songs and their singers. I know it’s the mourning dove whose cooing […]
By Matt Rourke and Shawn Marsh
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NATIONAL PARK, N.J. (AP) – Researchers believe they have uncovered in a mass grave in New Jersey the remains of as many as 12 Hessian soldiers who fought during the Revolutionary War, officials announced Tuesday. The remains, found at the site of Fort Mercer and the 1777 Battle of Red […]
