By Lindsey Tanner The Associated Press CHICAGO — Soccer injuries are sending soaring numbers of U.S. kids to emergency rooms, a trend driven in part by young players with concussions seeking urgent medical care, a study has found. The findings, based on 25 years of data, partly reflect soccer’s growing […]
Canada
The Canadian PressJoan Bryden OTTAWA—Scores of suffering Canadians who have been excluded from the federal government’s restrictive eligibility criteria for medical assistance in dying are lining up to join a constitutional challenge to the new law. The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, which is spearheading the challenge, has been “overwhelmed” […]
The Canadian PressAlexander Panetta WASHINGTON—Canadian diplomats will be pushing for the adoption of border legislation as the current U.S. Congress convenes for its final few months of business. The embassy in Washington wants U.S. lawmakers to deal with border reforms before a new president and Congress are sworn in next […]
By Matthew Perrone The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The federal government Friday banned more than a dozen chemicals long-used in antibacterial soaps, saying manufacturers failed to show they are safe and kill germs. “We have no scientific evidence that they are any better than plain soap and water,” said Dr. […]
The Canadian Press REDWATER, Alta.—An Alberta woman says she has been sore and sleep deprived since she spent hours clinging to the sides of an abandoned well near Edmonton earlier this week. Trieva McBeth plunged more than two metres into the grass-covered hole while she was walking her dog near […]
The Canadian PressAllison Jones TORONTO—Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives won a provincial byelection yesterday in northeast Toronto, but it may have come at a cost. City councillor Raymond Cho won the Scarborough-Rouge River riding—defeating the Liberals in a seat they have held since it was created in 1999. It’s the third-straight byelection […]
The Associated PressChris Carola ALBANY, N.Y.—Two-and-a-half centuries after their military ancestors fought and died in two 18th-century North American wars, members of the British army’s Scottish regiment will embark on a canoe trip from Montreal to New York City that will trace the water route many of their forbearers travelled. […]
The Canadian Press COUTTS, Alta.—The Canada Border Services Agency says it recently seized 11 undeclared guns in less than a day from three American vehicles entering the country at the Coutts crossing in Alberta. The seizures last Friday and Saturday came just days after the federal agency launched a campaign […]
The Canadian PressAlexander Panetta HOLTVILLE, Calif.—In this election year, in this place, in the rare event someone mentions Canada, it’s liable to be as a joke. John Hernandez offers an example of the genre. He greets a visitor to the southern tip of California and, upon learning he’s Canadian, Hernandez […]
The Canadian PressCamille Bains VANCOUVER—A study by the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS is calling for more doctors across Canada to be formally trained to diagnose and treat patients addicted to drugs. Dr. Evan Wood, co-author of the study published in the current edition of the Journal of […]
The Canadian Press TORONTO—All Ontario high school, college, and university students will have to participate in work co-op programs if the government keeps its promise to implement the recommendations from a panel of business and education experts. The “highly-skilled workforce expert panel” was set up last December to develop an […]
The Canadian Press PENTICTON, B.C.—Mounties in Penticton, B.C. say they got quite an eyeful last week after a man peeled off his clothes and began washing himself with milk after inadvertently spraying bear spray down his pants. RCMP spokesman Cpl. Don Wrigglesworth said officers were called to a local gas […]
