Local News from Across the Rainy River District
TORONTO – Muslim leaders are calling on Ontario to take action against Islamophobia. Imam Aarij Anwer of the London Muslim Mosque said Monday that the province should tackle the issue now and not wait for the results of next year’s election. A Muslim family from Anwer’s mosque was killed after […]
OTTAWA – Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole is restoring popular MP Pierre Poilievre to his role as the party’s finance critic today as he releases his new list of critics for the next Parliament. But O’Toole is leaving out former leadership rival Leslyn Lewis and Ontario MP Marilyn Gladu, both of […]
WHITEHORSE – The Yukon government has declared a state of emergency and announced a series of public health rules aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19, including a proof-of-vaccination requirement that’s set to take effect this Saturday. The territory says it is “moving rapidly” to implement a proof-of-vaccination system for […]
NEW YORK (AP) – Thanksgiving is Jonatan Mitchell’s favorite holiday, usually spent with his wife co-hosting up to 20 loved ones. He’d been looking forward to the gathering this year after calling it off in 2020 due to the pandemic, but one of the most pressing issues of the times […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – An American who faces criminal charges for participating in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol is seeking asylum in Belarus, the country’s state TV reported on Monday – a move that may further heighten the tensions between the turbulent ex-Soviet nation and the United […]
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Political appointees in the Trump administration relied on faulty science to justify stripping habitat protections for the imperiled northern spotted owl, U.S. wildlife officials said Tuesday as they struck down a rule that would have opened millions of acres of forest in Oregon, Washington and California […]
Today, Greg Rickford, Minister of Indigenous Affairs, issued the following statement marking Indigenous Veterans Day: “Today, we honour the bravery, service, and sacrifice of First Nation, Inuit and Métis veterans who served during the First World War, Second World War, Korean War, and subsequent Canadian Forces’ actions around the globe. […]
Friday in Dryden the Fort Frances Muskies upset the previously unbeaten Dryden Eagles 14 – 3 to win the NORWASSA football championship. The Muskie defense shut down Dryden’s high flying passing attack throughout the game. The Eagles scored a single on the opening kickoff. In the second quarter and took […]
OTTAWA – Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh led his caucus in marking the sacrifices of Indigenous veterans this morning, as well as the discrimination they faced after returning from war. Singh and his members of Parliament were at the National Aboriginal Veterans Monument in downtown Ottawa, where they laid a […]
WASHINGTON – For the first time in nearly 20 months, non-essential traffic is once again moving in both directions across the Canada-U.S. land border. Shortly after midnight, Customs and Border Protection agents began letting fully vaccinated vacationers, visitors and day-trippers drive into the United States for the first time since […]
IQALUIT, Nunavut – The hunters and trappers association in the community closest to an iron ore mine on the northern tip of Baffin Island doesn’t want to see the mine expand its operations, saying the effects have already been palpable. Baffinland Iron Mines Corp. is seeking to expand its Mary […]
OTTAWA – Newly named Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller says he wants to get to the bottom of why Ottawa abandoned its appeal of a ruling releasing the Catholic Church from its settlement obligations to residential school survivors. “I am as puzzled as everyone,” he told The Canadian Press in […]
