Local News from Across the Rainy River District
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrived Tuesday at one of NATO’s military bases on the Russian border after telling three Baltic leaders that Canada will stand with them to fight the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine and its cyberattacks on their countries. “You are literally on the front lines of this challenge […]
LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Buses carried civilians out of one embattled Ukrainian city Tuesday and supplies toward another, as officials tried to rescue people away from a Russian onslaught and ease the dire humanitarian situation for those still stuck. But reports of renewed Russian attacks on the port of Mariupol […]
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced sanctions against 10 more prominent Russians Monday as he stood shoulder to shoulder with his British and Dutch counterparts and condemned Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. The new sanctions came on the first stop of a four-country tour of Europe, as Trudeau meets allies from across […]
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his British and Dutch counterparts displayed a show of solidarity with besieged Ukraine on Monday at a historic military base that helped defend Britain during the Second World War. “We want to stand with the Ukrainian people and push back hard against Russia,” Trudeau said […]
A group of Quebec doctors have created a series of virtual training materials on life-saving procedures for Ukrainian health-care workers suddenly working in a war zone. Trauma surgeon Dr. Dan Deckelbaum, who is the surgical and procedural skills director at McGill University’s Steinberg Centre for Simulation and Interactive Learning in […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are opening lower on Wall Street but keeping their losses in check as an early spike in crude oil prices abated. The price of U.S. crude was up 1.8% to $117 a barrel Monday, but off its earlier high of $130 a barrel as talk […]
LONDON (AP) — U.K. lawmakers are set to pass a bill on Monday aimed at toughening sanctions on Russia and rooting out ill-gotten money from the British economy. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the Economic Crime Bill will let British authorities ”pursue (Russian President Vladimir) Putin’s allies in the U.K. […]
LONDON (AP) — Car factories idled, beer stopped flowing, furniture and fashion orders ceased, and energy companies cut their pipelines. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has thrown business plans into disarray and forced a growing number of the world’s best known brands — from Apple to Mercedes-Benz and BP — to […]
LONDON — Countries are snapping up the rights to “Servant of the People” — a comedy series starring the Ukrainian President, as the Ukrainian President. Back in 2015, former actor and comedian Volodymyr Zelenskyy played Vasiliy Petrovich Goloborodko, a high school teacher propelled to the presidency after a student’s video […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces have seized a strategic Ukrainian seaport and besieged another as part of efforts to cut the country off from its coastline, even as Moscow said Thursday it was ready for talks to end the fighting that has sent more than 1 million people fleeing […]
Faced with threats of withdrawals and growing animosity in the Athletes Village, organizers of the Winter Paralympics on Thursday reversed course and expelled athletes from Russia and Belarus. The about-face came less than 24 hours after the International Paralympic Committee announced it would allow Russians and Belarusians to compete when […]
The Town of Fort Frances has installed a Ukrainian flag in front of the Civic Centre, in a show of solidarity with the people of Ukraine, and our Ukrainian-Canadian population. Ukraine has endured seven days of fighting from invading Russian forces. The majority of the world has backed Ukraine, by […]
