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Hookworm-related skin infection a risk with travel to tropics: expert
TORONTO - The experience of a Windsor, Ont., couple who returned from a Caribbean vacation with their feet severely infected with parasitic worms is a cautionary tale of what travellers to some warm-w...
Jan 30, 2018
B.C. Supreme Court shuts down first unlicensed pot shop in Victoria
VICTORIA - A British Columbia court has granted Victoria an injunction to shut down a marijuana dispensary, marking the first court-ordered closure of a pot shop in the city. Victoria was the second c...
Jan 30, 2018
Notley says B.C. 'grasping at straws' with move to limit bitumen shipments
Alberta Premier Rachel Notley is slamming British Columbia’s proposal to restrict diluted bitumen ships. She says it would be illegal and would endanger jobs and the economy. She accuses the B.C...
Jan 30, 2018
Innisfail town council backs solar farm proposal
If all goes according to plan, solar energy could be powering all homes in Innisfail by the end of 2019. This week, Innisfail town council provided a letter of intent to Temporis Developments, who is ...
Jan 30, 2018
Zero-tolerance on sexual misconduct: Alberta Opposition leader Jason Kenney
EDMONTON - The leader of the United Conservatives in Alberta says the party will rigorously vet prospective candidates for conduct related to sexual harassment or aggression. Jason Kenney, a former fe...
Jan 30, 2018
Canadian international defender Dejan Jakovic joins Los Angeles FC
LOS ANGELES - Expansion Los Angeles FC has signed Canadian international defender Dejan Jakovic. The 32-year-old centre back played in the NASL for the New York Cosmos last season. He spent five seaso...
Jan 30, 2018
Ex-Mississippi Gov. Barbour arrested with gun at airport
JACKSON, Miss. - Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said he will pay a fine after being arrested with a loaded handgun in his briefcase as he went through an airport security checkpoint in early Ja...
Jan 30, 2018
Investigation: Arizona lawmaker broke sex harassment rules
PHOENIX - An Arizona House lawmaker violated the chamber’s sexual harassment policies and has been permanently removed from all committee assignments, the House speaker announced Tuesday. The mo...
Jan 30, 2018
Canadian defender Allysha Chapman goes to North Carolina in NWSL dispersal draft
Canadian international defender Allysha Chapman went 10th overall to the North Carolina Courage in Tuesday’s dispersal draft of Boston Breakers players. The Breakers officially folded Sunday, re...
Jan 30, 2018
Final phase of all-weather road for isolated First Nation about to begin
WINNIPEG - The final phase of construction is about to begin on an all-weather road for an isolated Indigenous community separated from the outside world more than a century ago. Freedom Road will pro...
Jan 30, 2018