By Lois Abraham THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Should you worry about eating food if the best-before date on the label has come and gone? That depends on whether it’s a can of tomatoes or a carton of milk. Best-before dates, sometimes called durable-life dates, are required on food with […]
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The Canadian PressTamsyn Burgmann VANCOUVER—In a community laboratory she co-founded, Alaina Hardie isolates and sequences sections of her own DNA though she has no formal education in biology. The Toronto software developer believes that “citizen scientists” like her have potential to make breakthroughs as significant as universities or big corporations. […]
The Canadian PressBob Weber A recently-published study suggests climate change may encourage longer and more frequent blooms of toxic algae along Canada’s Pacific coast. The research on the presence of algae toxins in marine mammals along the Alaska coastline holds a warning for British Columbia, said study author Kathi Lefebvre. […]
The Canadian Press OTTAWA—Tom Mulcair was leaving the national capital—his devastating federal election defeat still stinging—when he realized he wanted to stay on as leader of the NDP. Mulcair, having just wrapped up a post-election event in Ottawa with defeated colleague and “extraordinary friend” Paul Dewar, was returning to his […]
The Canadian PressKeith Leslie TORONTO—A single paragraph buried in the Ontario budget could mean big changes in the lives of some of the province’s most impoverished residents by giving them a guaranteed minimum income. Last month’s provincial budget promised a pilot project to test “that a basic income could build […]
The Canadian PressJoan Bryden OTTAWA—Justin Trudeau has vetoed an out-of-court settlement in the long-running dispute over the NDP’s allegedly improper use of parliamentary resources for partisan purposes, The Canadian Press has learned. Multiple sources, not authorized to speak publicly about the matter, say a proposed deal almost was sealed but […]
The Associated Press WASHINGTON—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau brought “Trudeaumania” to America yesterday and the verdict was a resounding thumb’s up. “Breath of fresh air,” ‘’impressive,” and “very impressive” was how some of the guests at a splashy White House state dinner in Canada’s honour described the country’s new leader. Trudeau […]
The Canadian Press VANCOUVER—Two homeless Saskatchewan men who say they were given one-way bus tickets to British Columbia have arrived in Vancouver. Charles Neil-Curly, 23, has been homeless for about five months and living in a North Battleford, Sask. shelter. But he says the province cut his funding—forcing him to […]
The Canadian PressJoan Bryden OTTAWA—Mauril Belanger no longer is able to talk but he managed to speak volumes yesterday about the desperate need to find a cure for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis as he accepted an unprecedented tribute from his peers in the House of Commons. The long-serving Ottawa MP presided […]
The Canadian PressBill Graveland LETHBRIDGE, Alta.—Three close calls that could have ended in tragedy spurred the Lethbridge Police Service to rethink how it was responding to troubled individuals causing a disturbance. Officers were dispatched to deal with reports of armed persons who were suffering from a mental crisis. In each […]
The Canadian Press CROSS LAKE, Man.—A remote Manitoba First Nation declared a state of emergency yesterday after six suicides in the last two months and 140 attempts in the last two weeks alone. Officials from the Pimicikamak Cree Nation, known as Cross Lake, say health workers on the northern reserve […]
By Lauran Neergaard The Associated Press WASHINGTON Nearly 1 in 3 patients who needs a kidney transplant is especially hard to match, and new research suggests a painstaking treatment to help those patients tolerate an incompatible organ is worth considering. More hospitals have begun offering so-called desensitization therapy to help […]
