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Help heads to NYC as experts predict over 100,000 US deaths
March 31, 2020 - 8:41 PM

NEW YORK - With refrigerated morgue trucks parked on New York City's streets to collect the surging number of dead, public health officials projected Tuesday that the coronavirus could ultimately kill more than 100,000 people across the U.S. Some states that have become hot spots warn they're running low on ventilators, while two cruise ships pleaded for Florida to allow them to dock to carry off the sick and dead.
Siemens, Alstom deal to create 'European champion' in trains
September 26, 2017 - 2:57 PM

FRANKFURT - German industrial equipment maker Siemens AG said Tuesday it has agreed to merge its train-building business with French rival Alstom, creating a "new European champion" in the face of rising competition from China.
China releases new list of items banned for export to NKorea
January 26, 2017 - 4:12 AM

BEIJING - China has released a new list of items banned for export to North Korea, ranging from wind tunnels to plutonium, following a new round of United Nations sanctions and complaints from U.S. President Donald Trump that Beijing was not doing enough to pressure its communist neighbour.
Molson Coors hopes Olympic fridge in Sochi will boost beer brand back at home
February 13, 2014 - 12:28 PM

MONTREAL - Molson Coors can't replicate the buzz from the Vancouver Winter Games, but the brewer hopes its red fridge in Sochi will do more than just quench the thirst of Canadian Olympic supporters.
New $20 plastic bank notes still indigestible for many vending machines
January 06, 2013 - 1:00 AM

OTTAWA - Thousands of vending machines still can't digest those plastic $20 bank notes the government released two months ago, with machine owners blaming the Bank of Canada for their problems.
Bank ready to show Vimy Ridge $20 bill can stand the heat and cold
November 06, 2012 - 6:11 PM

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada is taking no chances with the new plastic $20 bill.
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THOMPSON: Junk drawers: No method to my indefensible organizational madness
OPINION Maybe everyone has that drawer, you know, the one where you stick things because you don’t know where else to put it. I hope - for your sake - you don’t have what I have, multiple drawers. I

Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

Advocacy group calls on Vancouver to 'embrace' cannabis tourism after 4-20 'debacle'
VANCOUVER - The head of a B.C. cannabis growers group says the City of Vancouver's choice to discourage instead of sanction a marijuana celebration over the weekend was a costly "missed opportunity." The BC Craft Farmers Co-Op

Tranquille developer blames province after multiple ALC denials
The province's Agricultural Land Commission has heard multiple pleas from the owner of a historic Kamloops property who wants to build an agricultural suburb on the massive site. Each time Ignition Developments goes to the commission, i

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Help heads to NYC as experts predict over 100,000 US deaths

Siemens, Alstom deal to create 'European champion' in trains

China releases new list of items banned for export to NKorea

Molson Coors hopes Olympic fridge in Sochi will boost beer brand back at home

New $20 plastic bank notes still indigestible for many vending machines

Bank ready to show Vimy Ridge $20 bill can stand the heat and cold

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