The Associated Press NEW YORK—A New York City museum is offering visitors a chance to sit on a golden throne—but only in private. As part of his “America” exhibit at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan replaced the toilet in the museum’s fourth-floor restroom with a fully-functional […]
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The Canadian Press WINNIPEG—Lab tests are being done on samples taken from hundreds of drug doses seized in Winnipeg this week to determine whether a dangerous opioid 100 times more powerful than fentanyl has arrived in the city. Police say officers discovered upwards of 1,500 doses at a west-end hotel […]
By Maria Cheng The Associated Press LONDON — Men with early prostate cancer who choose to closely monitor their disease are just as likely to survive at least 10 years as those who have surgery or radiation, finds a major study that directly tested and compared these options. Survival from […]
The Canadian Press KAMLOOPS, B.C.—A British Columbia family’s difficult summer has been relieved by an unexpected lottery windfall. Sarah Ross of Lumby, B.C. won $1 million in Saturday’s Lotto 6/49 draw—a few months after her family lost their home to a fire in June. The 33-year-old mother of two said […]
The Canadian Press CHURCHILL, Man.—A study suggests food from the land is not going to save polar bears. The study, published in the journal “Physiological and Biochemical Zoology,” was undertaken by the University of Alberta and the Manitoba and federal governments. Researcher Andrew Derocher, a biological sciences professor at the […]
The Canadian Press OTTAWA—Peter MacKay has decided against joining the Conservative leadership race. “After much soul-searching, advice from trusted friends, and weighing of the impact on my young family, I have decided not to seek the leadership of the party,” the former cabinet minister from Nova Scotia said in a […]
The Canadian Press VANCOUVER—The youngest royal will arrive in British Columbia later this month for her first international appearance alongside her brother and parents, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Princess Charlotte will be 16 months old when she and three-year-old Prince George begin a week-long trip starting Sept. 24 […]
The Canadian PressBob Weber The second ship from Sir John Franklin’s doomed 19th-century search for the Northwest Passage has been located—right where an Inuit hunter said it would be. “The ship is in remarkable condition,” Adrian Schimnowski of the Arctic Research Foundation, one of the groups involved in the search, […]
By Candice Choi THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — An analysis of newly uncovered documents shows the sugar industry began funding research that cast doubt on sugar’s role in heart disease in part by pointing the finger at fat as early as the 1960s. A sugar industry group paid Harvard […]
The Canadian Press TORONTO—A new report suggests people living in remote Northern Ontario communities spend more than half their income on food to meet basic nutritional needs. The report from Food Secure Canada looked at the cost of certain food items in three Northern Ontario reserves: Moose Factory, Fort Albany, […]
The Canadian Press GANDER, N.L.—Motorcycle engines rumbled on the tarmac of a Newfoundland and Labrador airport yesterday as Canadians and Americans gathered to reflect on the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and this small town’s unexpected connection to it. A group of motorcycles and emergency vehicles provided an […]
The Canadian PressKeith Leslie TORONTO—Ontario home owners, farmers, and small businesses will get some relief from soaring electricity prices starting in January when the provincial portion of the harmonized sales tax is removed from hydro bills. The Liberal government announced the plan in the throne speech opening the fall session […]
