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Various packaged vegetable products recalled over listeria concern
OTTAWA - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says numerous packaged vegetable products have been recalled over concerns about listeria contamination. The agency says 26 Mann’s products, two Comp...
Oct 20, 2017
Mother of missing woman says police said daughter was probably drinking
WINNIPEG - Feeling abandoned by police, the family of a Manitoba Indigenous woman who disappeared in 2008, has been digging through fields, ditches and garbage dumps for any sign of her. The effort ha...
Oct 20, 2017
Support in wake of Gord Downie's death 'helps with the sadness': brother Mike
TORONTO - The outpouring of public support in the days since Gord Downie’s death has brought comfort to the Tragically Hip frontman’s family, his brother said Friday. “It helps with ...
Oct 20, 2017
Pollution more deadly than smoking, AIDS and war, new report says
OTTAWA - Pollution kills more people around the world than war and infectious diseases, says a new report - proof, environmental lobbyists say, of why Canada needs enforceable national air quality sta...
Oct 20, 2017
Premier vows to address 'systemic racism' as N.S. releases report on inquiry
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia has suffered from institutional racism, Premier Stephen McNeil acknowledged Friday as the government released a report outlining its role in an inquiry into decades of abuses at ...
Oct 20, 2017
B.C. SPCA says noteworthy singing pig tips the scales in search of forever home
VANCOUVER - A pig with personality is searching for a forever farm after being seized during a cruelty investigation in British Columbia. The B.C. Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals says Lyl...
Oct 20, 2017
Forestry Open House tonight
Three local forestry companies will talk about their future plans at an open house tonight. Weyerhaeuser's Traci Carter says this is the public's chance to ask questions. "We have Weyerhaeuser, Canfor...
Oct 20, 2017
Toronto FC looks forward to Atlanta test in MLS regular season finale
TORONTO - With a record crowd and motivated opponent, Sunday’s MLS regular-season finale in Atlanta is just what Toronto FC wants ahead of the playoffs. Iron sharpens iron. And Atlanta United, a...
Oct 20, 2017
U.S. doctor not impartial enough to testify in Ontario life support case: judge
BRAMPTON, Ont. - An American doctor who says he doesn’t believe in brain death will not be allowed to serve as an expert witness in the case of a woman whose family is fighting to keep her on li...
Oct 20, 2017
Single vehicle collision in Clairmont
Grande Prairie RCMP says one man has non-life threatening injuries after a single vehicle crash Thursday afternoon in Clairmont. Witnesses and callers tell us it happened along Highway 2 between the H...
Oct 20, 2017