Author Archives: Adam Riley
Scotiabank announces layoffs
Canada's third largest bank has announced it will be cutting back on its workforce in an effort to restructure. Approximately 2,700 people or three percent of Scotiabank's workforce will be laid off a...
Oct 19, 2023 PiggyBank / Unsplash
Charges upgraded to attempted murder
A Dryden man involved in an incident on Pitt Avenue last month now faces charges of attempted murder. On September 5th officers responded to an assault at the home around 8:30 p.m. which resulted in t...
Oct 19, 2023 An OPP cruiser holds the scene on the morning of September 6th at a Dryden home Wednesday September 6th 2023 after three officers were injured the prior evening. (Listener Submitted Photo)
Alexander Henry receives national designation
A national historic site is now moored in the Pool Six area, the former Canadian Coast Guard Ship Alexander Henry. The ship, which now houses the Transportation Museum of Thunder Bay, received the des...
Oct 18, 2023
OPP's OPERATION RETURN nets more than 300
A region wide campaign from the Ontario Provincial Police to arrest those wanted for violent offences has wrapped, with some positive numbers. Acting Detective Inspector Adam Wilkins says Operation Re...
Oct 18, 2023
$2.2 billion in savings with Universal Pharmacare
A cost estimate is out from the Parliamentary Budget Officer on what a single payer universal drug plan would look like over a five year plan effective January 1st 2024. The report builds upon one pub...
Oct 17, 2023 Screen capture from Parliamentary Budget Officer report
Wanted man arrested with sawed off rifle
Ontario Provincial Police have charged a Cat Lake First Nation man on several weapons related charges following his arrest in Sioux Lookout Friday afternoon. Officers were on patrol in the area of 5th...
Oct 17, 2023 Courtesy - Twitter: @OPP_NWR
Canadian Rangers training at Rinker Lake this week
Another military exercise will be taking place this week in the region, this time with the Canadian Rangers at Rinker Lake, north of Thunder Bay. As Major John McNeil explains Exercise Ranger Tracker ...
Oct 16, 2023 Supplied Photo
Police investigating south side homicide
Thunder Bay Police are considering a weekend death on the south side as a homicide. Police, firefighters and paramedics were called to a home in the 300 block of Ogden Street around 1:50 p.m. Sunday. ...
Oct 16, 2023 Ogden St, police investigation - CJ Goater
Earthquake recovery efforts continue
While much of the world focuses on the turmoil in Gaza and Israel, another country in the region is in recovery, Afghanistan. Over the past week the country has been rocked by four earthquakes which h...
Oct 16, 2023 Source - Twitter: @WFP_Afghanistan
UPDATE-- Police presence in Dryden
UPDATED: Ontario Provincial Police say they have safely apprehended a barricaded person. This comes following a heavy police presence in the Duke Street and Earl Avenue area Monday morning. Police wer...
Oct 16, 2023