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Rumours run amok in Smiths Falls, Ont., following unexplained disappearances and the death of a man earlier this week who was known to live in a house where police say drugs were sold.
Outside of the urban centers, when you make an emergency call to the Ontario Provincial Police it goes to Smiths Falls, in Eastern Ontario. But the O.P.P. has announced that is will be closing its East Region communications center over the next year affecting around 100 civilian employees who will potentially be offered transfers. Call taking and dispatch duties for all of Eastern Ontario will move to Orillia in Central Ontario – 330 kilometers away from Smiths Falls and almost 500 kilometers from SD&G. An O.P.P. spokesman insists that after a “comprehensive review” that “there will b...
Can you repeat that? Why COVID-19 face masks make it so hard to hear Different mask materials impact speech more than others. The best ones, Wilson said, are the disposable medical masks (blue masks) Dec 29, 2020 5:00 PM By: Yona Harvey When Renfrew resident Christina Edgar visited the emergency department a few weeks ago, the doctor asked questions, but Edgar couldn’t understand a word. “The doctor was impossible to understand through her mask and face shield,” she said, so the doctor finally wrote questions on a piece of paper. At 101 years of age, Edgar ...