A large tree on 4th Street East was just one of the casualties from Sunday night’s storm. The system saw extensive damage throughout town, from broken branches to toppled trees. Sioux Narrows/Nestor Falls was hit especially hard by the storm, with extensive property damage and power outages. It is being […]
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By Fernando Arce
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
New Canadian Media
Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
New Canadian Media
Canada’s urgent healthcare worker shortage may be due in part to the lack of accurate data about internationally educated healthcare professionals who have moved here. World Education Services, a nonprofit organization that provides credential evaluations for international students and immigrants planning to study or work in Canada and the U.S., […]
THE CANADIAN PRESS
A Canadian Red Cross official in Manitoba estimates close to 2,000 people have been evacuated from a First Nation threatened by a wildfire over the last several days using planes, helicopters and trains. Jason Small says fewer than 30 people remained at the Mathias Colomb Cree Nation in northwestern Manitoba […]
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Fort Frances is seeing an uptick in confirmed COVID-19 cases, including two outbreaks. Rainycrest Long-Term Care and La Verendrye Hospital are both in outbreak status. To mitigate the spread, Riverside has restricted visitors, and isolated those impacted. There are currently 20 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Fort Frances. That number […]
By Melissa Lambarena
Nerdwallet
Nerdwallet
When times are tough, credit card debt may be inevitable if you’re learning to manage credit or are forced to make risky financial decisions due to hardships. For Lydia Senn and her husband , who are Alabama residents, this was their reality during the Great Recession in 2008 after she […]
By Susie Blann
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Russian missiles struck cities and villages in eastern and southern Ukraine Tuesday, hitting homes, a school and a community center as Russian President Vladimir Putin was in Iran to discuss a U.N.-backed proposal to unblock exports of Ukrainian grain. In Kramatorsk, a city in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk province that is […]
By Bob Edme And John Leicester
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
French investigators probing the suspected deliberate lighting of what has become a raging wildfire in the country’s southwest detained a man for questioning, as firefighters and water-bombing planes on Tuesday fought the ferocious flames fueled by a heat wave smashing temperature records in Europe. Two huge fires feeding on tinder-dry […]
By Lyndsay Armstrong
THE CANADIAN PRESS
THE CANADIAN PRESS
The Nova Scotia mass killer used “illegitimate or suspicious means” to amass cash and enjoy a lifestyle well beyond his reported $40,000 annual income, the inquiry into his 2020 murders has found. But the inquiry says in a document published Tuesday it found no evidence the gunman was involved in […]
THE CANADIAN PRESS
Canada’s western provinces are dealing with a number of wildfires caused by warmer and drier weather. The B.C. Wildfire Service is keeping an eye on the Nohomin Creek Fire, which measures more than 20 square kilometres and is burning just west of the Village of Lytton. It says lower humidity […]
(KENORA, ON) Members of the Kenora Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and the Sioux Narrows-Nestor Falls Fire and Rescue were dispatched to Caliper Lake Provincial Park after a report of a significant weather event. On Monday July 18, 2022, at 12:03 a.m. the OPP were dispatched to a […]
A towering tree at Rose Manor was no match for raging winds in a storm which swept through the District on Sunday night. The storm brought heavy rain and high winds, bringing down many large trees, closing Caliper Lake Provincial Park. – Submitted photo
This is an update to the July 11, 2022 communication. The First Floor of La Verendrye hospital and the West Wing of Rainycrest have been added to the list of COVID-19 Outbreak locations. To further enhance our team’s ongoing efforts to prevent the spread of COVID-19, additional precautions are being […]
