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Is your vaporizer safe?
A recent story out of Texas in which a vaporizer exploded in a man's hand, sending shrapnel into his body and later causing his death, has a local vape expert speaking out.Jesse Huber, manager at Vita...
Feb 08, 2019
Ottawa objects to giving Quebec power to force immigrants to settle in regions
MONTREAL - The federal government is objecting to a Quebec proposal that it be allowed to determine where in the province immigrants settle as a condition of their gaining per...
Feb 08, 2019
‘It is far from over’: Push for reform continues one year after Stanley verdict
It was a bitterly cold February night when a jury, after deliberating for 13 hours, shuffled into a Queen's Bench courtroom in Battleford and acquitted Gerald Stanley in the shooting death of Colten B...
Feb 08, 2019
Finance Minister says feds focused on money laundering fight in B.C., globally
VICTORIA - Finance Minister Bill Morneau says fighting money laundering in Canada and abroad is on the federal government's agenda. He says the federal government is working together with British Colu...
Feb 08, 2019
Volunteers ready US aid set for Venezuela as Maduro digs in
CUCUTA, Colombia - Dozens of volunteers prepared sacks of rice, canned tuna and protein-rich biscuits for malnourished children at a warehouse on the Colombian border on Friday as Venezuela's oppositi...
Feb 08, 2019
Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques' helps repair leaky space toilet: NASA
MONTREAL - As proof that life as an astronaut isn't always glamorous, Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques' duties aboard the International Space Station recently included fixing...
Feb 08, 2019
Paul Dewar, former NDP foreign affairs critic, dies of cancer at 56
OTTAWA - Paul Dewar, a teacher and union leader from Ottawa who became the New Democratic Party's foreign affairs critic, died Wednesday after contending with brain cancer for a year. Despite struggli...
Feb 08, 2019
SIIT relocates, invests in the Battlefords
An investment in the future of not only the students, but the City of North Battleford.The grand re-opening of the Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies (SIIT) North Battleford Career Centre t...
Feb 08, 2019
Some workers still unpaid after shutdown, dread what's next
Nearly two weeks after the end of the longest government shutdown in U.S history, many federal workers still have not received their back pay or have only gotten a fraction of what they are owed as go...
Feb 08, 2019
Alberta strikes working group to make recommendations to ban conversion therapy
EDMONTON - The Alberta government has created a working group to determine the most effective way to ban conversion therapy. Health Minister Sarah Hoffman says the practice is both damaging and h...
Feb 08, 2019