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Canada marks immunization week
It's National Immunization Week across Canada. National Immunization Week aims to spread awareness about the importance of vaccines to good health. For Dr. Mandiangu Nsungu, area lead medical health o...
Apr 25, 2019 (File photo/paNOW Staff)
Relay for Life Team Captain Meeting
Relay For Life 2019 - Teams (Team Captain) Meeting Monday April 29th - 7:00 pmCoronet Hotel (formerly Travelodge) - 3551 2nd Ave WestPhone 306-764-4808 for more informationIf you have a team registere...
Apr 25, 2019
US expands probe into air bag failures to 12.3M vehicles
DETROIT - U.S. auto safety regulators have expanded an investigation into malfunctioning air bag controls to include 12.3 million vehicles equipped with bags that may not inflate in a crash. The probl...
Apr 25, 2019
Singh says childhood abuse steeled him for scrutiny and stress of politics
OTTAWA - Political life means signing up for a high degree of public scrutiny, but NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says the pain he endured in his childhood - including an experience with...
Apr 25, 2019
New era of Canadian soccer kicks off with the Canadian Premier League
Allan Gorman and his fellow Forge FC supporters have spent hours painting a 15-by-12-metre banner welcoming their team and the Canadian Premier League. Songs have been learned and ...
Apr 25, 2019
Last member of Vancouver baseball team that fought racism helps unveil new stamp
BURNABY, B.C. - A new Canada Post stamp honours an amateur Japanese-Canadian baseball team that used sport to battle racism and discrimination. The Vancouver Asahi formed in 1914 and thrilled fans in ...
Apr 25, 2019
Jays callup Guerrero joins list of hyped international baseball prospects
Top Blue Jays prospect Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is expected make his long awaited Major League Baseball debut when Toronto plays the Oakland Athletics on Friday at the Rogers Centre. As one of the most h...
Apr 25, 2019
Budget watchdog says carbon-price revenues to be $2.6B this year
OTTAWA - Canada's budget watchdog says revenues from the federal carbon price will be more than $2.6 billion this year and exceed $6 billion a year within five years. The new analysis by the parliamen...
Apr 25, 2019
U.S. takes Canada off priority watch list on intellectual property
OTTAWA - The United States is moving Canada off a priority watch list of countries that it says have failed to enforce intellectual-property rights. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is, how...
Apr 25, 2019
Canadian privacy watchdogs find major shortcomings in Facebook probe
OTTAWA - Facebook's ineffective safeguards allowed unauthorized access to the information of millions of the social-media giant's users - including data later used for&nb...
Apr 25, 2019
