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Federal Court rules hearing can proceed on pesticides blamed for bee deaths
OTTAWA - A Federal Court decision allowing a lawsuit over pesticides blamed for decimating bee populations could affect dozens of common agricultural chemicals, environmentalists say. “This case...
Apr 12, 2018
Harder accuses Tories of sabotaging move to independent, less partisan Senate
OTTAWA - The government representative in the Senate is accusing Conservative senators of deliberately trying to sabotage Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s efforts to turn the upper house into a l...
Apr 12, 2018
Clearview Public Schools staff lend a hand at Ronald McDonald House
STETTLER- In 2016-17 Clearview Public Schools created a wellness fund to help support staff health and wellness initiatives at schools and worksites. Each year schools and sites apply for funding to e...
Apr 12, 2018
Anchorage voters are 1st in US to defeat 'bathroom bill'
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Voters in Alaska’s largest city have become the first in the U.S. to defeat a so-called bathroom bill referendum that asked them to require people to use public bathrooms and...
Apr 12, 2018
Guitar makers hit hard by new regulations on prized rosewood
CONCORD, N.H. - An international crackdown on illegal logging in tropical forests has ensnared the makers of some guitars and other musical instruments, whose top-end products require small amounts of...
Apr 12, 2018
In opioid epidemic, some cities strain to afford OD antidote
BALTIMORE - On a Baltimore street corner, public health workers hand out a life-saving overdose antidote to residents painfully familiar with the ravages of America’s opioid epidemic. But the tr...
Apr 12, 2018
Second Cup sets its sight on converting some coffee shops into pot dispensaries
TORONTO - Second Cup wants to serve up a different kind of buzz by converting some of its coffee shops into cannabis dispensaries and, when legal, pot lounges. Shares in the Canadian restaurant operat...
Apr 12, 2018
Red Deer RCMP target seatbelt use in March, focus on speed for April
RED DEER- Throughout March, the Red Deer RCMP traffic unit and Community Peace Officers (CPOs) operated a number of campaigns targeting the correct use of seatbelts, which have been proven time and ag...
Apr 12, 2018
RCMP investigating after three suspects rob Breton Esso
Breton RCMP are investigating after a break and enter to the local Esso gas station. Police say in the early morning hours of March 24 Mounties were notified of a break and enter to the gas station. A...
Apr 12, 2018
Russian meddling? Resignation? Zuckerberg notes have answers
WASHINGTON - Here’s what Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wanted members of Congress to know about the scandal in which Cambridge Analytica used the massive social platform to access 87 million user...
Apr 12, 2018