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April 15, 2021 Reading time: 2 min 30 s By Carol Goddard, Special to Seaway News Saint Finnan in Alexandria, North Glengarry has been designated as a minor basilica by Pope Francis, with the decree signed by Cardinal Sarah on behalf of Pope Francis on February 19, 2021. Carol Goddard photo. ALEXANDRIA, Ontario – St. Finnan Church in Alexandria Ontario has been raised to the status of a Minor Basilica by Pope Francis, with the...

Article content Schools in the area will be getting millions of dollars as part of a larger infrastructure investment by the federal and provincial governments. On Wednesday morning, the governments announced $656.5 million in funding for upgrades related to the COVID-19 pandemic. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Millions for COVID improvements at schools Back to video In a release, Leeds-Grenville-Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes MPP Steve Clark ...

The volcano's 1816 eruption triggered a temporary climate change that had catastrophic consequences.

Article content Prince Philip, accompanied by Queen Elizabeth, greets a local woman during a visit to Brantford. Brant Historical Society jpg, BR Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who died on Friday at the age of 99, was supposed to visit Brantford in 1997. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. • Turn to Page B5 for more on Prince Philip. He accompanied the then Princess Elizabeth, two years prior to her coronation, on a visit to the city in 1951. T...

Article content ALEXANDRIA — Pope Francis has designated St. Finnan’s Parish a basilica. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ottawa-Cornwall was recently informed St. Finnan’s Parish, formerly the cathedral for the Diocese of Alexandria-Cornwall, has been designated a minor basilica by the Pope, and it’s a very special designation. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Welcome to Alexandrias St. Finnans Basilica Back to video St. Finnan’s become...

New York to Muddy York April 9, 2021 Literatures, Communities, and Learning: Conversations with Indigenous Writers by Aubrey Hanson If You Discover a Fire by Shaun Robinson Scott McLaren Pulpit, Press, and Politics: Methodists and the Market for Books in Upper Canada.University of Toronto Press (purchase at Amazon.ca) When we imagine those settlers to Upper Canada of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, we might imagine them as Susanna Moodie portrayed them in Roughing It in t...

Here are the latest local, regional and national headlines on the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) for Wednesday, April 7, 2021: There have been 367,602 confirmed cases of COVID-19 across Ontario, an increase of 3,065 cases from the previous day. There have been 333,576 people recovered from the virus while 7,458 have died. The number of Ontario people tested is 12,855,397 of which 29,173 have pending results. Canada’s coronavirus case total is 1,020,893. The country has 23,141 deaths from the vi...

Title Fredonia, or the United States of North America; including also Cabotia, or the Canadian Provinces; the Western Territory to the Pacific Ocean; and the Northern Part of the Mexican States.   1830 (dated)         1 : 570000 Description A fine example of the rare 1830 first obtainable edition of the famous Richard Holmes Laurie Fredonia map of the United States. The map is best known for its advocation of a new name for the United States - Fredonia, which it is argued would buil...

On March 6th, I published a Quillette article describing how Robyn Bourgeois, the newly installed vice-provost for Indigenous engagement at Canada’s Brock University, had been seeking to mobilize her peers against the anonymous operator of an obscure (and by then, defunct) Twitter account called @BrockCivis. On her social-media channels and at the university’s “Two Row Council” (a body tasked with managing Brock’s efforts at “Indigenization, reconciliation, and decolonization”), ...

A Scarborough elementary school will switch to remote-only instruction for at least the next week after a number of classes were required to self-isolate following a positive COVID-19 case involving a staff member.