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Manitoba premier says grain-drying would be exempt from a Manitoba carbon tax
BRANDON, Man. - Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister is pitching his plan for a carbon tax to agricultural producers as a much better alternative than the current federal one. Pallister told an agricultur...
Jan 21, 2020
Malaysia returns 150 containers of garbage, including 11 to Canada
OTTAWA - Malaysia says it returned 11 shipping containers of plastic garbage to Canada after they arrived on its shores illegally last year. But Canadian officials, citing privacy laws, refu...
Jan 21, 2020
Chilako fire homeowners asked to tear down 'nuisance' home
PRINCE GEORGE-Owners of a home that went up in flames last fall, killing one and injuring three are now being asked to tear down the home.In last night's (Jan.21) council meeting, Council approved rem...
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NewsAlert: Jean Charest won't seek Tory leadership
MONTREAL - Former Quebec premier Jean Charest has decided not to seek the federal Conservative leadership. In an interview with Radio-Canada today, he says the odds are stacked against someone from ou...
Jan 21, 2020
US gets 1st case of mysterious new Chinese illness
SEATTLE - A U .S. citizen who recently returned from a trip to central China has been diagnosed with the new virus that has sparked an outbreak and stringent monitoring around the world. The man retur...
Jan 21, 2020
River Ice restricts flow on Nechako
PRINCE GEORGE - The dramatic swing in temperatures over the past week is the suspected cause of an ice jam on the Nechako River. Large sheets of ice can be seen lodged up against the Foothills bridge ...
Jan 21, 2020
Canadian baseball star Walker believes he'll come up shot in Hall of Fame vote
Former Colorado Rockies and Montreal Expos star slugger Larry Walker says he doesn't expect to be elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame on Tuesday night. The native of Maple Ridge, B.C., is in h...
Jan 21, 2020
Lawyer says 'loving' emails' are key to Weinstein defence
NEW YORK - Defence lawyers want to use a trove of intimate email correspondence between Harvey Weinstein and his accusers to try to convince a jury that any contact was consensual, one of the attorney...
Jan 21, 2020
Chetwynd drug bust leads to arrest
CHETWYND - A 29-year-old woman was arrested following a drug bust in Chetwynd over the weekend.North District RCMP Cpl. Madonna Saunderson says it follows the execution of a search warrant Sunday in t...
Jan 21, 2020
Violence in northern Syria kills 17, including whole family
BEIRUT - Airstrikes on rebel-held parts of northwestern Syria and the shelling of government-held areas killed at least 17 people Tuesday, including an entire family, Syrian opposition activists said....
Jan 21, 2020