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Premier Prentice announces new measures to prevent floods, speed up flood claims

CALGARY — Premier Jim Prentice announced new measures Friday to clean up outstanding claims from last year’s disastrous southern Alberta …

Election 2015: Will Harper spring forward or fall back on set date?

OTTAWA—In exchange for a $25 donation, the Conservative party recently offered its supporters a Stephen Harper calendar “to help count …

Maternal health in, climate change out: A look at Canada’s changing UN speeches

UNITED NATIONS—A scan of Canadian speeches at the United Nations General Assembly reveals a shift in priorities during the years …

New health minister promises change but says he won’t radically alter the system

EDMONTON—Alberta’s new health minister says there won’t be massive reforms to the province’s health care system but there will be …

Why Winnipeg? How Canada’s national lab became an Ebola research powerhouse

TORONTO—When Dr. Frank Plummer talks about the first experimental Ebola drug used in an outbreak, he pronounces it “Zed Map.” …

U.S. girls who organized integrated prom to see Winnipeg museum exhibit

WINNIPEG—A 19-year-old who last year helped organize her Georgia high school’s first racially integrated prom will come to Winnipeg to …

B.C. teachers ratify six year contract, pull down pickets for school to start

VANCOUVER—Half a million British Columbia students will start their school year next week after the province’s strike-weary public school teachers …

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford to undergo first round of chemo in coming days

TORONTO—Toronto Mayor Rob Ford will spend the next few days undergoing his first round of chemotherapy after being diagnosed with …

It’s decision day in B.C. teachers’ labour dispute with provincial government

VANCOUVER—More than half a million pubic-school students in British Columbia should know by the end of the day whether they’ll …

Nova Scotia’s fishing industry tops provincial list of workplace deaths

HALIFAX—Nova Scotia’s best-known industry is also its deadliest. Stuart MacLean, CEO of the Workers’ Compensation Board of Nova Scotia, says …

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