The gastroenteritis and respiratory outbreaks at Rainycrest Long Term Care Home are still in effect as of today. All admissions, transfers, discharges and social activities are cancelled until further notice. Visitors to the home are restricted to family members and caregivers only. Riverside Health Care continues to ask family members […]
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Council will vote on an updated smoking bylaw that addresses where cannabis and tobacco can be smoked or vaporized during tonight’s meeting. The revised bylaw says no person shall smoke cannabis or tobacco or inhale vapour from any vapour product in or on any municipal building or vehicle owned or […]
The Canadian Press CALGARY — Onex Corp. has signed a friendly deal to buy WestJet Airlines Ltd. in an all-cash transaction it valued at $5 billion, including assumed debt. Under the agreement announced Monday, Onex will pay $31 per share for WestJet, which will operate as a privately held company. […]
By Joseph Pisani The Associated Press NEW YORK — Amazon, which is racing to deliver packages faster, is turning to its employees with a proposition: Quit your job and we’ll help you start a business delivering Amazon package. The offer, announced Monday, comes as Amazon seeks to speed up its […]
By Ashok Sharma The Associated Press NEW DELHI — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been skewered by the opposition for going ahead with an airstrike in Pakistan on the mistaken belief that cloudy skies would help India’s air force avoid radar detection. In a television interview broadcast Saturday, Modi […]
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Riverside Health Care in conjunction with the Northwestern Health Unit has declared the respiratory and gastroenteritis outbreaks over at Rainycrest Long Term Care Home, effective today. All social events and activities at Rainycrest have resumed. All visitors are now welcome. We are still urging people to refrain from visiting the […]
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Today Borderland Pride revealed the official event schedule for the second installment of the region’s annual LGBTQ2 Pride festival. This year’s program has been branded PRIDE WEEK+, as a nod to inclusion and in recognition of the added events for the 2019 celebration. The festival will span more than a […]
By Joan Bryden The Canadian Press OTTAWA—Lynn Beyak cast herself as a defender of free speech and a victim of political correctness moments before senators voted summarily yesterday to suspend her without pay from the Senate for refusing to delete derogatory letters about Indigenous people from her website. The suspension […]
The Associated Press EVANSTON, Ill. — An escaped pet snake that apparently slithered into a suburban Chicago family’s washing machine ended up smelling like fabric softener after going through the wash. Sanela Kamencic tells WMAQ-TV she was “totally creeped out” when the snake turned up Wednesday in the washing machine […]
The Associated Press BERLIN–A creative attempt by a downtown Berlin park manager to keep drug dealers away from families and joggers has been met with an emphatic “nein” from German officials. Cengiz Demirci demarcated certain areas in the popular Goerlitzer Park with pink spray-painted lines for the dealers to stand […]
Tonight will be clear to partly cloudy with a low of minus-one C (30 F). Tomorrow will turn cloudy with a high of 12 (54) and a low of four (39). Saturday will be mostly cloudy and breezy with a high of 15 (59) and a low of five (41). […]
The Canadian PressLaura Kane VANCOUVER–Retailers across Canada are struggling with a shortage of all cannabis, but there’s one product they’re especially desperate to keep on shelves: cannabidiol or CBD, a non-intoxicating extract vaunted for its purported health benefits. The extract, most commonly sold as oil, has been promoted as a […]
