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Descrease article font size Increase article font size Moose Lake RCMP say a 15-year-old youth from a nearby First Nation has been charged in connection with a Saturday morning shooting in the northern Manitoba community. Officers arrived at a home in Moose Lake, Man. just before 3 a.m. Saturday and …
Read More »‘Extremely concerning’: Two northern Ontario safe consumption sites fear closure
SUDBURY, Ont. — Anxiety is mounting over the future of two supervised consumption sites in northern Ontario as funding for them is set to run out at the end of the year. The northern cities of Sudbury and Timmins — where opioid overdose rates are well above the provincial average …
Read More »‘Almost died a few times’: Northern Ontario city of Sudbury grapples with opioids
GREATER SUDBURY, Ont. — Crystal Plume sits in the shade of a tree near a busy intersection in downtown Sudbury and carefully injects fentanyl into a vein on the back of her hand before licking the speck of blood left behind. The 36-year-old who regularly panhandles in the northern Ontario …
Read More »Victims rushed to hospital after 2 a.m. stabbing near Northern Hotel, Winnipeg cops say – Winnipeg
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Winnipeg police say they’re investigating an early morning stabbing near a Main Street hotel. Officers were called to the area near the Northern Hotel around 2 a.m., where two victims were found and rushed to hospital in unstable condition. No arrests have …
Read More »Manitoba RCMP to return to northern community to search for man presumed dead – Winnipeg
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Manitoba RCMP say they’re continuing to look into the disappearance of a Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation man two years after he first disappeared. The disappearance of 22-year-old Rico Linklater, who was last seen in October of 2021, is considered a homicide investigation by …
Read More »Members from several First Nations rally against northern Ontario mining plans
TORONTO — Members of several First Nations rallied outside the Ontario legislature Thursday to raise concerns about mining exploration they say is happening on their lands against their will. Indigenous leaders and community members said they weren’t consulted as mining prospectors staked claims on their territories. They also pushed back …
Read More »1 dead, 1 injured in northern Manitoba boat accident – Winnipeg
Descrease article font size Increase article font size A man is dead after he was thrown from a boat near Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation in northern Manitoba Monday evening. Nelson House RCMP were called to the Notigi Boat Launch in the community, located about 90 kilometres west of Thompson, around 6 …
Read More »Raging wildfires prompt new evacuation orders in northern Quebec
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted June 23, 2023 11:27 am Descrease article font size Increase article font size A Cree community in northern Quebec is being evacuated Friday morning because of heavy smoke from a nearby forest fire. The Cree Nation of Mistissini said on its Facebook page that …
Read More »Northern Ontario museums shut out of funds for summer staff
Four museums in the Temiskaming Shores and Cobalt area have been unsuccessful this year in obtaining funding through the Canada Summer Student Jobs program. The Bunker Military Museum, the Cobalt Mining Museum, the Haileybury Heritage Museum and the Little Claybelt Homesteaders Museum all have to find other ways to fund students …
Read More »Body of missing man identified near northern Manitoba river, RCMP say – Winnipeg
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Police in The Pas, Man., have determined that a body found near the Saskatchewan River on Monday afternoon is that of missing 22-year-old Jayden Mercredi. The body was found just off 1st Street East in the northern Manitoba community. RCMP and the …
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