Local News from Across the Rainy River District
Annual Race for the Fallen to finish out the year, September 4 and 5. Mother Nature bested our Weekend Warriors one more time this season as the clouds opened up Friday and Saturday and made the grounds of the Emo Speedway too damp to welcome drivers of any kind. With […]
This week we sat down with driver of the #28 Emo Street Stock, Doug Derendorf. What is your favourite race track food? Hamburgers and cheeseburgers. When did you start racing? 1973 in the V8 car class. There were no modified or street stocks then, just V8 cars and V6 cars. […]
It’s been a rough couple of years in the sports world, but the Superior International Junior Hockey League is pleased to reveal the details of the 2021-22 Regular Season schedule which will mark the league’s 20th Anniversary. The seven active teams in the SIJHL, including the Fort Frances Lakers, will […]
Ontario has dropped runny noses and headaches from the list of COVID-19 symptoms that require children to stay home from school or daycare and get tested for the virus. The province’s updated online screening tool now lists five categories of symptoms “most commonly associated with COVID-19” – fever and chills, […]
The Fort Frances Lakers were excited to commemorate the first Lakers Power Play Pogo sold with a keepsake photo. Jackson Olsen was their first customer for the new fundraising enterprise. The Lakers were gifted the Odd Fellows “Odd Dog” recipe and fryer, and have since revived them as Lakers Power […]
WINDSOR, Ont. – A southwestern Ontario hospital says it has opened a pediatric clinic as it expects a recent surge of COVID-19 cases in children to continue. The Windsor Regional Hospital says the Paediatric Urgent Medical Assessment Clinic is intended for COVID-19 assessments for those aged 17 and younger. The […]
TORONTO–Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice has certified a class-action lawsuit against fourteen insurance companies that denied business interruption claims related to COVID-19. The class action, launched by several small businesses including a suit store, a smoothie shop and a dance studio, claims businesses across Canada suffered billions of dollars in […]
TORONTO – Ontario is reporting 525 new cases of COVID-19 today and five more deaths, including three deaths that took place months ago. Health Minister Christine Elliott says that 434 of the new infections are in people who are not fully vaccinated or have an unknown vaccination status. She says […]
OTTAWA – Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau says an estimated 1,250 Canadian citizens, permanent residents and family members are still in Afghanistan following the withdrawal of all U.S. troops on Monday. Garneau revealed the figure during a news conference this morning in which he and Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino announced […]
OTTAWA – A new poll suggests the Conservatives and NDP have momentum heading into the second half of the federal election campaign, while the Liberals are bleeding support. Thirty-four per cent of decided voters who took part in the Leger survey said they support Erin O’Toole’s Conservatives – ahead of […]
WASHINGTON (AP) – The United States has completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan, ending America’s longest war and closing a chapter in military history likely to be remembered for colossal failures, unfulfilled promises and a frantic final exit that cost the lives of more than 180 Afghans and 13 U.S. service […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) – Louisiana communities beginning the huge task of clearing debris and repairing the damage inflicted by Hurricane Ida are facing the dispiriting prospect of weeks without electricity in the oppressive, late-summer heat. Ida ravaged the region’s power grid, leaving all of New Orleans and hundreds of thousands […]
