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Feds dead set against 'ridiculous' quotas to replace steel, aluminum tariffs
WASHINGTON - Canada is not about to agree to quotas or other limits on its exports in order to get the United States to lift punishing tariffs on steel and aluminum, says a source close to the ongoing...
Oct 19, 2018
Hong Kong man sentenced after admitting to voyeurism, child porn charges
LETHBRIDGE - A 19-year-old Hong Kong national has been handed a one-year jail sentence, after admitting that he recorded people - including children - using the men's change room at the University of ...
Oct 19, 2018
Cardi B hands out free winter coats in New York
NEW YORK - Hundreds of people have lined up in New York City as rapper Cardi B handed out free winter coats. The Bronx-born rapper met with residents and fans on Thursday evening at the Marlboro House...
Oct 19, 2018
Here's a list of September inflation rates for selected Canadian cities
OTTAWA - Canada’s national annual inflation rate was 2.2 per cent in September, Statistics Canada says. The agency also released rates for major cities, but cautioned that figures may have fluct...
Oct 19, 2018
Here's a list September inflation rates for Canadian provinces, territories
OTTAWA - Canada’s national annual inflation rate was 2.2 per cent in September, Statistics Canada says. Here’s what happened in the provinces (previous month in brackets): - Newfoundland a...
Oct 19, 2018
Castor senior killed in crash on Highway 12
CORONATION- RCMP are investigating a fatal crash in Paintearth County on Thursday morning. At approximately 10 a.m., Coronation RCMP responded to a two vehicle collision on Highway 12. Preliminary inv...
Oct 19, 2018
Annual pace of inflation slows to 2.2 per cent in September: Statistics Canada
OTTAWA - The annual pace of inflation slowed more than expected in September as increases in the price of gasoline continued to ease. Statistics Canada said Friday the consumer price index in Septembe...
Oct 19, 2018
Study of U.S. hospital figures links pot use with increasing risk of stroke
MONTREAL - New research based on U.S. hospital statistics suggests that recreational cannabis users are increasingly at risk of stroke. In findings presented Friday at the World Stroke Congress in Mon...
Oct 19, 2018
Mayor came home to try to improve poor California town
HURON, Calif. - Beyond the boarded-up buildings and patchwork fences that others view as eyesores, Huron Mayor Rey Leon sees potential in this tiny central California farm town that has been mired in ...
Oct 19, 2018
Impoverished farm town is left behind in California
HURON, Calif. - A rooster signals the start of the day as workers wearing sombreros and ball caps emerge from the shadows and shuffle past boarded-up businesses in this tiny farm town. They converge o...
Oct 19, 2018