Local News from Across the Rainy River District
TORONTO – Ontario plans to spend up to $324millionto boost hospital capacity and extend working hours to tackle a waitlist for surgeries that’s expected to grow as the province recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic. Health Minister Christine Elliott and the CEO of Ontario Health on Wednesday announced details of the […]
TORONTO – Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott says more than 80 per cent of people in the province aged 12 and older have now received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. That means one of three conditions the province has set for moving beyond Step 3 of its […]
Chief Vern Janvier, members of Chipewyan Prairie First Nation, and supporters of the cause, are making the long walk to Ottawa with hopes of changing the Indian Act. They began their trek to the capital in Sudbury on July 18 and move 20 kms per day until they reach parliament […]
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden took quick action after his inauguration to start shifting federal inmates out of privately run prisons, where complaints of abuses abound. “It is just the beginning of my administration’s plan to address systemic problems in our criminal justice system,” Biden promised in January as […]
TROOZ, Belgium (AP) – Visions of cars being swept away in a raging current keep coming back to trouble Eric Mouque. His wife, Cindy, gets triggered by the slightest noise. So when her husband turns on the hose to clean a few things, all she can think about are those […]
Police briefs (FORT FRANCES, ON) – On July 25, 2021 at 5:14 p.m. members of the Rainy River District Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) received a report of an assault with a weapon that occurred at a local business located at the #400 Block of Portage Ave. Police and Ambulance […]
HOUSTON (AP) – ZZ Top’s Dusty Hill, the long-bearded bassist for the million-selling Texas blues rock trio known for such hits as “Legs” and “Gimme All Your Lovin’,” has died at age 72. In a Facebook post Wednesday, guitarist Billy Gibbons and drummer Frank Beard said Hill died in his […]
WINNIPEG – A First Nations advocacy group in Manitoba is urging RCMP across the country to open criminal investigations into all former residential schools following a decade-long investigation into allegations of sexual abuse at a former residential school in the province. The Southern Chiefs’ Organization says investigations are warranted and […]
$47,500 awarded for demonstrating leadership and mentorship within school and community Mélanie-Rose Frappier and Alison Lewis, both fourth-year medical students at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM), are the inaugural recipients of newly established CIBC Indigenous Learner Leadership Awards. The awards recognize self-identified Indigenous learners at NOSM who demonstrate […]
THUNDER BAY — The first graduates from the Ascend Accelerator program in Lakehead University’s Ingenuity initiative are being celebrated. The program provided support for the development of student-based business ideas while providing opportunities to learn how to overcome the challenges of starting a business and making it a viable enterprise. […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is allowing the problem-plagued factory of contract manufacturer Emergent BioSolutions to resume production of COVID-19 vaccine, the company said Thursday. The Baltimore factory was shut down by the FDA in mid-April due to contamination problems that forced the company to trash the equivalent of […]
When Zach Hyman visited Edmonton with his wife about a week ago, he quickly realized that signing with the Oilers as a free agent would be a “no brainer.” The couple liked the city and could see their seven-month-old son, Theo, growing up there. Hyman loved the rink – and […]
