Author Archives: Adam Riley
Toronto police make city's largest ever drug bust
A three month long investigation in to drug trafficking in Toronto, Project Finito, has yielded an impressive result. "This total of 992 kilograms of illicit drugs has an estimated street level value ...
Nov 17, 2023 551 kilograms of cocaine and 441 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine are displayed during a press conference on November 17,2023 by the Toronto Police Service, which represents the largest seizure in the service's history (Youtube: Toronto Police Service)
New partnership to 'open doors'
Following eight months of negotiations a new partnership has emerged between the Dryden Native Friendship Centre and Dryden District Senior Services. DDSS Chair Martin MacKinnon explains the proposed ...
Nov 17, 2023 File Photo
Youths arrested on mischief charges
City police have arrested four youths in connection to reports of bullet holes in windows in the north core Thursday morning. As part of the investigation officers reviewed security footage from the a...
Nov 17, 2023 (Acadia Broadcasting File Photo)
2 sent to hospital following transport collision
A pair of tractor trailer units which collided on the Kenora bypass has sent two people to hospital with non life threatening injuries. According to the Ontario Provincial Police it occurred around 2:...
Nov 17, 2023
Highway 61 collision claims life
One person has been killed following a collision on Highway 61 Tuesday morning. Ontario Provincial Police and Superior North EMS were dispatched to the area south of Loch Lomand Road around 8:00 a.m. ...
Nov 17, 2023
2 charged following elder abuse investigation
City police have arrested two people following an investigation into what they are calling a serious case of elder abuse in Thunder Bay. The abuse is alleged to have occurred over a one year period fr...
Nov 16, 2023 Acadia Broadcasting File Photo
Air Force Major faces firearms and smuggling charges
A member of the Canadian Armed Forces has been charged with almost 30 firearms and smuggling related offences following an investigation by the Canada Border Services Agency. The CBSA says in August a...
Nov 16, 2023 Items seized as part of an investigation into firearms smuggling by a member of the Canadian Armed Forces (Source: CBSA)
Bag of tools joins orbital debris
There is a new object orbiting the Earth, its not a space station or satellite....its a tool bag. In a blog post NASA says the bag floated away during a spacewalk at the International Space Station on...
Nov 16, 2023 Astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O'Hara conduct a spacewalk on November 1st 2023 at the International Space Station (Youtube: NASA TV)
Funding support advised by staff
City council in Dryden is being advised by staff to support an application for connecting link funding. Public Works Manager Blake Poole explains the scope of the project. "From Gordon Road for 1500 m...
Nov 15, 2023 Dryden City Hall, September 2023, Acadia News photo
Israeli hospital raid on 'Utterly unacceptable' ; WHO Director General
The health situation in Gaza continues to decline and a military operation targeting one of the largest and few remaining hospitals in the area has drawn condemnation. A raid conducted by Israeli forc...
Nov 15, 2023 World Health Organization Director General Doctor Tedros Adhannom Ghebreyesus provides an update on the health situation in Gaza on November 15th 2023 (WHO Youtube Screenshot)