Gates at odds with Oosterhoff over Niagara’s vaccine shortage
Niagara Falls NDP MPP Wayne Gates is demanding answers from the provincial government regarding Niagara’s vaccine shortage.
Sean Vanderklis, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Niagara Falls Review
Project Share’s Coldest Night of the Year event raises record sum
On Saturday, more than 150 people in Niagara Falls walked for the Meridan Credit Union Coldest Night of the Year event to support Project Share in ending the struggle against poverty and empowering people in need.
Niagara school boards to start targeted COVID-19 testing
Niagara’s school boards are preparing for student testing for COVID-19.
DSBN to create equity, inclusion and anti-racism committee
District School Board of Niagara has announced the creation of an equity, inclusion and anti-racism advisory committee.
First snow day of the year for Niagara students
One week after in-class learning resumed, Niagara school boards elected to shut down on Tuesday, but for a different reason.
Niagara teachers offer mixed grades to plan to move back March break
The province’s decision to push back March break until April is getting only middling grades from Niagara teachers’ union representatives.
Red dresses hang in the trees at Niagara’s post-secondary institutions to symbolize missing and murdered Indigenous women
In conjunction with Niagara College, Brock University is hosting a weeklong event to bring attention to the violence that plagues Indigenous women. The REDress Project, originated at University of Winnepeg in 2011 by Métis artist Jamie Black, has since been replicated nationwide. Empty red dresses signify the loss of life of thousands of Indigenous women, … Read more
No ‘mass testing’ plan as Niagara students set to return to class
Minister of Education, Stephen Lecce, confirmed Niagara students would return to in-class learning next week, but school boards are still waiting to hear the plan for targeted asymptomatic testing.
Schools in four more Ontario public health units to reopen for in-person learning
TORONTO — Schools in four more public health units in southern Ontario will reopen for in-person learning on Monday, but students in several other regions will continue to learn online.
Niagara students will not be heading back to the classroom next week
The Ontario government has announced schools in four more public health units in southern Ontario will reopen for in-person learning on Monday — Niagara will not be one of them.