The Canadian Press WINNIPEG—The owner of a controversial medical marijuana shop that was raided earlier this week says he hopes his arrest will shed some light on the struggle patients have obtaining the product. Glen Price, 54, the owner of Your Medical Cannabis Headquarters, has been charged with a number […]
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The Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea—North Korea said today it will establish its own time zone next week by pulling back its current standard time by 30 minutes. Local time in North and South Korea and Japan is the same—nine hours ahead of GMT. It was set during Japan’s rule […]
The Canadian Press VANCOUVER—The powerful opioid fentanyl, recently linked to an outbreak of overdose deaths in Western Canada, appears to be flowing along a well-worn drug trafficking route—killing some of its users in the same way tainted ecstasy did before. Authorities theorize the potent pain-killer is being imported from Asia […]
The Canadian Press BAYFIELD, N.S.—Another group of beached whales in Nova Scotia has been helped back out to sea—marking the second time this week that concerned residents joined together to save a stranded pod. “They’re still in shallow-ish water but we’re hoping that they will eventually sort of continue their […]
The Canadian PressDavid Paddon TORONTO—Canada’s economy added about 6,600 jobs last month—essentially reversing a similar decline in June but having too little effect to change a national unemployment rate that has been stuck at 6.8 percent for six months in a row. Statistics Canada’s monthly job report provides a fresh […]
The Canadian Press OTTAWA—Whatever impressions Canadians might have had about Stephen Harper, Tom Mulcair, and Justin Trudeau were thoroughly confounded yesterday in the first televised leaders’ debate of the 2015 election campaign. Harper, the hyper-partisan of the House of Commons, was nowhere to be seen and neither was “Angry Tom” […]
