Local News from Across the Rainy River District
A few members of the Canadian Armed Forces are on the ground in Bearskin Lake First Nation in northern Ontario to assist the community amid a COVID-19 outbreak that has infected half of its population. A spokeswoman for federal Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair said four Rangers are there to […]
TORONTO – New school guidance from the Ontario government says that only certain students and teachers who show symptoms of COVID-19 will have access to PCR tests when schools reopen to in-person learning next week. The Ministry of Health document says take-home PCR self-collection kits will only be provided to […]
TORONTO – Ontario is reporting 3,220 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 and 477 people in intensive care. There are 250 patients on ventilators due to COVID-19. Twenty-one new virus-related deaths were reported. The province reported 7,951 new cases, but Public Health Ontario says the real number is likely higher due to […]
OTTAWA – A new poll suggests a slim majority of Canadians support the latest round of lockdowns and other government-imposed restrictions as the Omicron variant continue to fuel an explosion in new COVID-19 infections. Fifty-six per cent of respondents in the poll conducted by Leger and the Association of Canadian […]
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden will use a speech in Georgia to endorse changing Senate filibuster rules that have stalled voting rights legislation, saying it’s time to choose “democracy over autocracy.” But some civil rights groups won’t be there, in protest of what they say is administration inaction. Biden […]
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – The Taliban have released a popular university professor and outspoken critic of successive Afghan governments who was arrested over the weekend, a family member said Tuesday. Hasina Jalal, Faizullah Jalal’s daughter, said her father was freed from Taliban custody. The group had accused him of “nonsense […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Phillip Danault, Blake Lizotte and Adrian Kempe scored in the Los Angeles Kings’ 3-1 win over the New York Rangers on Monday night. Trevor Moore had two assists and Cal Petersen made 22 saves for the Kings, who have won four of five. Mika Zibanejad had […]
POTSDAM, Germany (AP) – German prosecutors will drop an animal cruelty investigation into an athlete and a coach who were shown striking a horse during the Olympic modern pentathlon last year. The investigation will be dropped once athlete Annika Schleu and coach Kim Raisner have paid an agreed sum to […]
DENVER (AP) – Nazem Kadri scored the go-ahead goal late in the third period, and the surging Colorado Avalanche rallied to beat the Seattle Kraken 4-3 on Monday night. Nicolas Aube-Kubel had two goals and Devon Toews also scored for Colorado, which beat former goalie Philipp Grubauer to win its […]
BERN, Switzerland (AP) – Olympic snowboard champion Patrizia Kummer will head to the Beijing Games early to spend three weeks in quarantine because she isn’t vaccinated against the coronavirus, she said Tuesday. Chinese authorities require unvaccinated Olympians to enter quarantine upon arrival if they don’t have a valid medical exemption. […]
Widespread testing of patients and staff underway The Northwestern Health Unit and Riverside Health Care Facilities are investigating “Suspect” COVID-19 outbreak at Riverside Health Care Facilities-LaVerendrye General Hospital site as a result of one (1) patient testing positive. To further enhance our Team’s ongoing efforts to prevent the spread of […]
TORONTO – Ontario is reporting 438 people in intensive care with COVID-19 and 2,467 people hospitalized with the virus in total. Health Minister Christine Elliott shared the figures noting that not all hospitals report data from the weekend. The province reported 9,706 new COVID-19 cases, but Public Health Ontario has […]
