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Green tea party? State licenses Boston's 1st marijuana shop
Boston's first retail pot shop and Massachusetts' first minority-owned marijuana business was approved Thursday, more than a year after the first shops opened elsewhere in the state. The state's Canna...
Feb 08, 2020

Walmart shooting suspect charged with federal hate crimes
WASHINGTON - The man accused of killing 22 people and wounding two dozen more in a shooting that targeted Mexicans in the border city of El Paso, Texas, has been charged with federal hate crimes. Patr...
Feb 08, 2020

NewsAlert: Flight from Wuhan carrying 176 passengers lands in Vancouver
A plane carrying Canadian citizens home from the centre of the global novel coronavirus outbreak has landed in Vancouver. The evacuation flight organized by the federal government departed from&n...
Feb 08, 2020

Wild weather causes 1,250 road accidents across Quebec, dumps 40 centimetres of snow
MONTREAL - Quebecers woke up Saturday to a massive snowfall that helped trigger more than 1,200 road accidents across the province, including a 70-car pileup east of Montreal that closed part of ...
Feb 08, 2020

Privacy czar asks court to declare Facebook broke law governing personal info
OTTAWA - The federal privacy czar is asking a judge to declare that Facebook broke Canada's law governing how the private sector can use personal information. Privacy commissioner ...
Feb 08, 2020

Health officials investigating Imperial Tobacco ad campaign on vaping
MONTREAL - Health Canada and its provincial counterpart in Quebec are investigating a widely disseminated Imperial Tobacco advertisement on vaping to see whether it violates advertising laws...
Feb 08, 2020

Family says controversial professor Jordan Peterson recovering from addiction
Jordan Peterson`s daughter says the controversial Toronto author and professor is recovering from an addiction to benzodiazepine in Russia. Mikhaila Peterson says in an online video statement tha...
Feb 08, 2020

Olympic berth on the line for Canadian women as they face Costa Rica in California
CARSON, Calif. - Coach Kenneth Heiner-Moller is throwing out the form chart as eighth-ranked Canada takes on No. 37 Costa Rica in the semifinals of the CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Championship...
Feb 08, 2020

Ins and outs of travel insurance amid novel coronavirus outbreak
VANCOUVER - Travellers nervous about globe-trotting during the novel coronavirus outbreak may be eligible to receive a refund for cancelling their travels, say insurance experts, but it depends o...
Feb 08, 2020

Quebec school board renounces federal funding for its Bill 21 court challenge
MONTREAL - A Montreal school board on Thursday said it would renounce the money it was slated to receive from the federal government for a court challenge against Quebec's seculari...
Feb 08, 2020