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Massive U.S. aircraft carrier visits Halifax: 'This is a floating city'
HALIFAX - The FA-18 Super Hornet revs its engines to maximum thrust, and the jet fighter’s nose wheel is locked into a steam-powered catapult on the aircraft carrier’s flight deck. The thu...
Jun 28, 2017
Fibre-optic device can detect stray cancer cells, improve tumour removal: study
TORONTO - A fibre-optic probe can detect errant cancer cells within healthy tissue during brain tumour surgery with close to 100 per cent accuracy and sensitivity, reducing the risk of recurrence and ...
Jun 28, 2017
Second inmate in two years dies of prescription drug overdose at N.S. jail
HALIFAX - Another inmate has died from a drug overdose in Nova Scotia’s largest jail, making it the second case in two years of a prisoner dying after taking prescription drugs obtained in the f...
Jun 28, 2017
Calgary Police lay over 40 drug and weapons charges
CALGARY – Two people are facing dozens of charges after tips from the public about alleged trafficking led to the seizure of a variety of drugs, guns, ammunition and cash. The charges follow an ...
Jun 28, 2017
Pence: Trump will repeal Obama's health law by summer's end
CLEVELAND - Vice-President Mike Pence on Wednesday reiterated a promise to repeal former President Barack Obama’s health care reforms by the end of the summer despite uncertainty over whether a ...
Jun 28, 2017
MISSING: 55-year-old Gordon Denton of Blackfalds
BLACKFALDS- RCMP are asking to the public's assistance in locating a missing 55-year-old local man. Gordon Denton was last seen on June 25, in Vernon, British Columbia at the local RCMP detachment. Bl...
Jun 28, 2017
Paddington bear creator Michael Bond dies at 91
LONDON - It was a last-minute Christmas gift for his wife that inspired Michael Bond to create Paddington bear, the marmalade-loving teddy in a duffel coat and floppy hat. Bond would go on to see his ...
Jun 28, 2017
Lionel Desmond not turned away by hospital, family says after briefing on deaths
ANTIGONISH, N.S. - A former Canadian soldier was not turned away from a Nova Scotia hospital in the days before he killed three members of his family and himself, relatives said Wednesday after meetin...
Jun 28, 2017
US pending home sales slip for 3rd straight month
WASHINGTON - Americans signed fewer contracts to buy homes in May, the third straight monthly decline and evidence that a shortage of homes for sale has suppressed home-buying. The National Associatio...
Jun 28, 2017
ABC, meat producer settle in $1.9B 'pink slime' libel suit
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - ABC and a South Dakota meat producer announced a settlement Wednesday in a $1.9 billion lawsuit against the American network over its reports on a lean, finely textured beef produc...
Jun 28, 2017