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Trick-or-treat shifts to skate-or-swim as cities strive for healthy Halloween October 22, 2017 - 7:00 AM

REGINA - The gleeful "trick or treat" that children shout when they call at houses on Halloween is getting a healthier response in some cities across Canada.
5 things to know about new travel booking platform October 22, 2017 - 7:06 PM

The man behind Apple News wants to shake up the travel industry and give travellers a cut of commissions from online hotel bookings.
Oregon day care shuttered after 2nd death in 2 years October 22, 2017 - 10:32 AM

PORTLAND, Ore. - Regulators in Oregon have shuttered a day care after a second baby died there in as many years, an unprecedented number of deaths at a single day care centre for the state.
Successful lawyers more likely to experience mental health problems October 22, 2017 - 8:13 AM

TORONTO - New Canadian research suggests lawyers are more likely to experience mental health struggles the more successful they are in their field.
Bavarian town honours horses' patron saint in procession October 22, 2017 - 4:52 AM

WARNGAU, Germany - Townspeople and farmers in the small Bavarian town of Warngau have donned traditional costumes for their annual procession in horse-drawn carriages to a local church in honour of St. Leonard, considered the patron saint of horses and livestock.
Honolulu store owners say thieves are targeting cans of Spam October 21, 2017 - 3:58 PM

HONOLULU - Cans of Spam have become a common item that's being stolen from Honolulu stores and then sold on the streets for quick cash, according to authorities.
UK paper sorry for airbrushing out Solange Knowles's braids October 21, 2017 - 11:56 AM

LONDON - Britain's Evening Standard newspaper has apologized to Solange Knowles for digitally altering an image of the singer on the cover of its magazine.
FDA approves better vaccine against painful shingles virus October 20, 2017 - 4:52 PM

U.S. regulators have approved a new, more effective vaccine to prevent painful shingles, which is caused by the chickenpox virus.
Officials: Jambalaya at fundraiser sickens more than 100 October 20, 2017 - 3:56 PM

COLUMBIA, La. - Louisiana's health department says salmonella from the chicken and sausage jambalaya at a softball team's fundraiser may have killed one person and apparently has made more than 100 people ill.
Recalls this week: wind-up toys, ottomans, wood chippers October 20, 2017 - 11:33 AM

More than a half-million windup toys are being recalled this week because a piece poses a choking hazard to young children. Other recalled consumer products this week include off-highway vehicles and wood-chippers.
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ALBAS: Ethics and taxes make strange bedfellows
OPINION On Monday of this week the Liberal Government announced that it will be abandoning some of the proposed tax changes that had generated a considerable amount of concern and opposition throughout our region. Alt

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