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Creating proposed online harms regulators estimated to cost $200 million: PBO
OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget officer estimates that staffing up the new regulators in the Liberals' Online Harms Act will cost around $200 million over five years. The federal government wants to...
Jul 04, 2024
Watch: Opening ceremonies for Jim Pattison Children's Hospital
Nearly five years after a historic groundbreaking, the Jim Pattison Children's Hospital officially opens today. Patients will be moved in at a later date.Many say it will usher in a new, state-of-the-...
Sep 05, 2019
US retail sales barely rise at start of holiday shopping
WASHINGTON - Americans increased their retail spending just slightly in November, a possible sign of lacklustre holiday shopping. Retail sales rose only 0.1 per cent in November, after a downwardly-re...
Dec 14, 2016
Canadian retailers worry as Trump pushes for higher cap on duty-free goods
Donald Trump may have unwittingly resurrected an issue that has been hotly contested for years in Canada’s retail industry when he unveiled his list of objectives for the upcoming NAFTA renegoti...
Jul 18, 2017
Washington state reaches $149.5 million settlement with Johnson & Johnson over opioid crisis
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - The Washington state attorney general announced a $149.5 million settlement Wednesday with drugmaker Johnson & Johnson, more than four years after the state sued the company ...
Jan 24, 2024
City administration proposes new budget with 5.12 per cent property tax increase
The City of North Battleford's administration has proposed its 2024 budget with a 5.12 per cent property tax increase.The draft is only administration's proposal. Before city council can vote on the b...
Nov 17, 2023
Canada's Leylah Fernandez knocked out of China Open
BEIJING - Leylah Fernandez, of Laval, Que., is out of the China Open after being upset by American Peyton Stearns on Friday. The unseeded Stearns, a 22-year-old from Cincinnati, took down the 20th-see...
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Rebuilding shattered Aleppo will take billions - and peace
ALEPPO, Syria - Fighting has ended in Aleppo, and now talk is beginning to turn to the question of how to rebuild Syria’s largest city, where entire blocks have been smashed to rubble in scenes ...
Feb 02, 2017
780 overdose deaths have B.C. officials urging people to not use drugs alone
VANCOUVER - British Columbia’s health officials are considering plans to offer an overdose reversing drug online and urging drug users not to use alone after an 88 per cent increase in deaths. C...
Aug 04, 2017
Amazon, Buffett and JPMorgan join forces on health care
Three of corporate America’s heaviest hitters - Amazon, Warren Buffett and JPMorgan Chase - sent a shudder through the health industry Tuesday when they announced plans to jointly create a compa...
Jan 30, 2018