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Automated cars could kill wide range of jobs, federal documents say
OTTAWA - More than one million jobs could be lost to the coming boom in automated vehicles with ripple effects beyond the likeliest victims, internal government documents warn. The documents from Empl...
Oct 15, 2018
Manitoba mulling a ban on public consumption of edible cannabis products
WINNIPEG - Manitoba’s Progressive Conservative government is looking at expanding its ban on smoking cannabis in public places to also include consumption of edible products. Two days before the...
Oct 15, 2018
Toronto FC playmaker Victor Vazquez done for the season after knee surgery
TORONTO - Its playoff hopes gone, Toronto FC has shut down Spanish playmaker Victor Vazquez for the remaining three games of the MLS regular season. The 31-year-old midfielder underwent arthroscopic k...
Oct 15, 2018
Bruins' Bergeron, Leafs' Rielly, Canes' Aho named NHL's three stars of the week
NEW YORK - Boston Bruins centre Patrice Bergeron, Toronto Maple Leafs defenceman Morgan Rielly and Carolina Hurricanes right-wing Sebastian Aho have been named the NHL’s three stars of the week....
Oct 15, 2018
B.C. receives 173 cannabis shop applications but only one store opening Oct. 17
VICTORIA - Only one government-approved marijuana store will open in British Columbia on Wednesday when pot sales become legal across Canada, but the province’s public safety minister doesn̵...
Oct 15, 2018
Study shows parasite spread by cats threatens Quebec's endangered belugas
MONTREAL - Endangered beluga whales in the St. Lawrence River already facing plenty of adversity now have an unlikely foe to contend with - the common house cat. A new study suggests the belugas are b...
Oct 15, 2018
Trudeau takes political gamble with legalized pot for Canadian adults
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is reassuring Canadians the country is indeed ready to become the first G7 member to greenlight legal recreational pot - a campaign pledge that will become reali...
Oct 15, 2018
'Panicked' six-year-old girl one of two dead in Calgary transit train accidents
CALGARY - A six-year-old girl on her way to school was one of two people who died Monday in separate accidents involving Calgary’s light-rail transit trains. The girl was hit by a train at an in...
Oct 15, 2018
Canada Day sexual assault suspect to face prelim
A young man accused in the sexual assault of a young girl in Red Deer on Canada Day will face a preliminary hearing. Darrien Francis Nepoose, 18, is charged with aggravated sexual assault. He was char...
Oct 15, 2018
In posthumous message, Hawking says science under threat
LONDON - Stephen Hawking spoke from beyond the grave Monday to warn the world that science and education are under threat around the world. The words of the scientist, who died in March at 76, were br...
Oct 15, 2018