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Harvey may not have dealt devastating blow to Texas ranchers
GLEN FLORA, Texas - As John Locke looked down from a helicopter at his roughly 200 cattle struggling with Harvey’s rising floodwaters, he saw about 20 becoming entangled in a barbed wire fence a...
Sep 29, 2017
Planning underway for new Blaine Lake school
An exciting future awaits students, staff and the community of Blaine Lake. The beginning of planning and design of the new $9.5 million Kindergarten to Grade 12 school has been announced by the provi...
Sep 14, 2020
Repeat rent-dodger dubbed 'professional squatter' prompts call for reform
HALIFAX - A Halifax coffee shop owner who says he tried for more than four months to evict a tenant he called a "professional squatter" is calling for reforms to Nova Scotia's tenancy laws. ...
Oct 18, 2019
Manitoba judge rules church can't hold drive-in services forbidden by health order
WINNIPEG - A Manitoba judge rejected a church's request Saturday to hold drive-in services despite the province's COVID-19 restrictions on public gatherings and in-person religious events. "The o...
Dec 05, 2020
Food retailer Loblaw raising handling fee for its largest suppliers
VANCOUVER - The largest suppliers of Loblaw Companies Ltd. will have to pay a new handling fee, the company said. Suppliers using Loblaw’s distribution centres will pay 0.79 per cent on the cost...
Nov 03, 2017
Judge declines to delay South Dakota execution
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - A judge on Thursday denied a South Dakota inmate's request to delay his execution over concerns about the drug that the state plans to use, rejecting the man's contention that it d...
Nov 02, 2019
Chile police declassify World War II-era files on Nazi plots
SANTIAGO, Chile - The Chilean equivalent of the FBI declassified World War II-era files on Thursday that show Nazi agents in the South American country’s main port of Valparaiso plotted to destr...
Jun 22, 2017
Homeless N.L. man lives on $175 a month. Federal housing monitor says it's not enough
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - People on government income support programs are increasingly ending up in tents or homeless encampments, community workers said as they applauded Canada's housing advocate's recent...
Feb 18, 2024
'Absolutely terrifying:' Family faced big medical bill despite travel insurance
CALGARY - The family of a father who fell ill following a hiking trip to Spain to memorialize his soldier son says they were faced with a massive medical bill - despite having travel insurance. Michae...
Sep 24, 2017
Focus on innovation, not more cash, to improve health care in Canada: doctor
VANCOUVER - Squabbling by provinces in the run-up to a new health accord points to the need for an agency that would share regional health-care innovations with the rest of the country, says an editor...
Oct 31, 2016