Local News from Across the Rainy River District
Ontario’s main political parties are promising to hire more doctors and nurses and increase the number of spaces at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine to address the need for health-care workers in the region — a problem that a hospital president says requires both immediate and long-term solutions. The […]
Three of Ontario’s four major political parties are promising to take steps to lower the price of food, but an expert says some of the main factors leading to rising costs are out of the province’s hands. The issue of affordability has been top of mind for Ontarians throughout the […]
Elections Ontario says more than one million people voted in the advance polls. Advance voting was available for 10 days this year, up from five in the last election. Elections Ontario says preliminary figures indicate that 1,066,545 people cast their ballot in advance polls this year, which represents 9.9 per […]
Ontario’s autism program has undergone four major revamps in the past six years, and has seen five different ministers in charge, and Alina Cameron just wants her daughter’s over four-and-a-half year wait for treatment to be done. Fiona, 7, has been on the wait list for government-funded therapy since Oct. […]
TORONTO – Three of Ontario’s four major political parties are promising to end for-profit long-term care in the province, though they offer differing plans for how to accomplish what would be a huge undertaking. The NDP, Liberals and Greens say the COVID-19 pandemic shone a light on long-term care, and […]
Last week NDP candidate for Kenora-Rainy River JoAnne Formanek Gustafson issued the following statement calling out her opponent, the incumbent candidate, Conservative Greg Rickford for inaction over the recent wave of flooding across the riding. “The flooding in communities here in Kenora-Rainy River and across the Northwest is getting worse […]
Provincially, the average price for gas was at 200.2 cents per litre over the long weekend. With the provincial election looming, party leaders are discussing solutions on how to reduce the high prices. Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath said in a virtual media availability Friday that her party is the […]
Ontario’s four main party leaders are reaffirming commitments to search for burial sites at the province’s former residential schools for Indigenous students one year after ground-penetrating radar unearthed what are believed to be the graves of 215 children at a former such facility in British Columbia. The Progressive Conservatives, New […]
Three of Ontario’s four main parties are pledging to reverse cuts to the province’s student assistance program, but they’ve all attached different price tags to the promise. The program that converted many student loans to grants and made tuition free for some students was turfed by the Progressive Conservatives after […]
TORONTO – Two of the leaders of Ontario’s four major political parties have been sidelined with COVID-19 with two weeks left to election day. Both NDP Leader Andrea Horwath and Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner have tested positive, with Horwath’s result coming Thursday morning and Schreiner’s coming the previous evening. […]
KINGSTON, Ont. – Ontario’s New Democrats and Liberals committed Wednesday to bringing in a law to fight Islamophobia and other forms of hate if elected to form government next month. Speaking to reporters in Kingston, Ont., NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said addressing racism and hate is a priority for people […]
Kenora-Rainy River We invited the provincial candidates in Kenora Rainy River to submit a few words to voters, to introduce themselves and their goals, ideas and values. Today, we’re printing the first six. Check in next week for the remaining submissions. Election Day is June 2 Early voting is available […]
