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Staff photo The huge COVID caseload in Thunder Bay keeping paramedics vigilant. Superior North EMS Chief Wayne Gates tells us they get their inspiration from other areas of the province which have also gone through a spike in cases like Windsor, Peel Region, and Toronto. “And they all have weathered the storm well…the credit goes to…those front line boots on the ground…who really do care about our community,” notes Gates. The EMS chief is optimistic the vaccine will ease our COVID crisis adding “I think in the next few months we’ll really start seeing our numbers really…go dow...

Still no positive COVID-19 cases among members of Superior North EMS. Chief Wayne Gates says his members have been diligent in their use of personal p...

Everyone knows we need more vaccines. Our parents and grandparents are being forced to live in fear.

THUNDER BAY — The number of opioid-related overdoses in the Thunder Bay area increased significantly from 2019 to 2020. The Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre reports that it treated 262 patients for opioid overdoses last year. That's an increase of 39 per cent from 2019, when the hospital handled 188 cases. Statistics relating to opioid-related deaths last year are not fully reported yet. However, between January and September 2020 there were 34 confirmed and 5 suspected deaths in the Thunder Bay area, for a total of 39. By comparison, in the same period in 2019 there were 29 o...

Shawn Gladders was horrified upon entering his brother's room in Niagara Fall's Greycliff Manor for the first time.