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EPA to limit toxic 'forever chemicals' in drinking water
March 14, 2023 - 7:47 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed limiting the amount of harmful “forever chemicals” in drinking water to the lowest level that tests can detect, a long-awaited protection the agency said will save thousands of lives and prevent serious illnesses, including cancer.
Russia storms Mariupol plant as some evacuees reach safety
May 03, 2022 - 7:38 PM

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces Tuesday began storming the steel mill containing the last pocket of resistance in Mariupol, Ukrainian defenders said, just as scores of civilians evacuated from the bombed-out plant reached relative safety and told of days and nights filled with dread and despair from constant shelling.
US economy slowed to a 2% rate last quarter in face of COVID
October 28, 2021 - 8:48 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hampered by rising COVID-19 cases and persistent supply shortages, the U.S. economy slowed sharply to a 2% annual growth rate in the July-September period, the weakest quarterly expansion since the recovery from the pandemic recession began last year.
Indonesian divers find parts of plane wreckage in Java Sea
January 10, 2021 - 3:51 AM

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Authorities said they determined the location of the crash site and black boxes of a Boeing 737-500 on Sunday, a day after the aircraft crashed into the Java Sea with 62 people on board shortly after taking off from Indonesia's capital.
'Do our lives count for less?': COVID-19 exposes cracks in disability aid
August 07, 2020 - 2:22 PM

Karyn Keith says she isn't asking for much. All she wants is the same support she'd receive if she was out of a job because of the pandemic, rather than unable to work because of her disabilities.
'Do our lives count for less?': COVID-19 exposes cracks in disability aid
August 07, 2020 - 2:20 PM

Karyn Keith says she isn't asking for much. All she wants is the same support she'd receive if she was out of a job because of the pandemic, rather than unable to work because of her disabilities.
Quebec retailers see slower sales, changed customer behaviour since reopening
May 21, 2020 - 8:47 AM

MONTREAL - More than two weeks after being allowed to reopen following the loosening of COVID-19 restrictions, Quebec store owners are finding that permission to open up doesn't mean a return to business as usual.
Masks and closed fitting rooms: Reopened retail to look vastly different
May 14, 2020 - 8:26 AM

VANCOUVER - Shoppers at recently reopened Sleep Country stores looking to test mattresses or pillows will find a disposable protective barrier between them and the product. When Aritzia stores open soon in Vancouver, customers will be able to ask staff for face masks or gloves to wear while they peruse clothing racks.
Long john producer Stanfield's reacts to COVID-19 with 'pivot' to medical gowns
April 01, 2020 - 1:00 AM

HALIFAX - A historic Canadian undergarment factory famed for long johns and boxer shorts is about to rapidly reinvent itself as a domestic producer of medical gowns.
Trump delays tariffs on some Chinese goods until December
August 13, 2019 - 3:57 PM

WASHINGTON - Responding to pressure from businesses and growing fears that a trade war is threatening the U.S. economy, the Trump administration is delaying most of the import taxes it planned to impose on Chinese goods and is dropping others altogether.
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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

Manitoba government plans to lift ban on homegrown recreational cannabis
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is planning to end its ban on homegrown recreational cannabis — a move that would leave Quebec as the only province with such a restriction. "We're just allowing Manitobans to have the same

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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EPA to limit toxic 'forever chemicals' in drinking water

Russia storms Mariupol plant as some evacuees reach safety

US economy slowed to a 2% rate last quarter in face of COVID

Indonesian divers find parts of plane wreckage in Java Sea

'Do our lives count for less?': COVID-19 exposes cracks in disability aid

'Do our lives count for less?': COVID-19 exposes cracks in disability aid

Quebec retailers see slower sales, changed customer behaviour since reopening

Masks and closed fitting rooms: Reopened retail to look vastly different

Long john producer Stanfield's reacts to COVID-19 with 'pivot' to medical gowns

Trump delays tariffs on some Chinese goods until December

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