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'Big year' for pharmacists with new prescriptive powers, drug shortages: association
VANCOUVER — In a year when pharmacists have stickhandled children's drug shortages and an extra-busy flu shot season, you'd think they might balk at the news in Ontario and B.C. that their prescriptive powers are being expanded.
Jan 2, 2023 2:00 AM
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Experts question Ottawa's negative COVID-19 test for air travellers from China
Canada's requirement of a negative COVID-19 test of travellers from China will not help in preventing new variants or the spread of the virus, say experts.
Jan 1, 2023 4:38 PM
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Feds eyeing 'variety of options' for planned firearm buyback program: Mendicino
OTTAWA — The federal government is "looking at a variety of options" to carry out a planned buyback of banned firearms — including enlisting outside help, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino says.
Jan 1, 2023 3:32 PM
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Premiers' New Year's messages talk economic improvement, health care, cost of living
VANCOUVER — Premiers across the country used their New Year's messages to emphasize everything from housing and affordability to healthy lifestyles.
Jan 1, 2023 1:13 PM
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11 Hydro-Québec customers who lost power in winter storm yet to be reconnected
MONTREAL — Hydro-Québec says almost all of its customers who lost power in a Dec. 23 winter storm have now been reconnected.
Jan 1, 2023 12:58 PM
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Arrest made in death of Réjean Hébert, longtime radio journalist in New Brunswick
SAINT-SIMON, NEW BRUNSWICK — A journalist well-known to listeners of French-language radio in New Brunswick has been killed and police say they're investigating the death as a homicide.
Jan 1, 2023 10:50 AM
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Search resumes for fisherman missing in Quebec's Gaspé region since Friday
CAP-DES-ROSIERS, Que. — Quebec provincial police say the search for a fisherman missing in Quebec's Gaspé region since Friday has resumed. Police spokeswoman Sgt.
Jan 1, 2023 8:43 AM
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Music, countdowns, fireworks and festivities as Canadians ring in the new year
From coast to coast, Canadians rang in the new year Saturday night with parties, fireworks and in some places, a lot of rain.
Jan 1, 2023 2:13 AM
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B.C. poised for drug decriminalization experiment, but will it help stem deadly tide?
VANCOUVER — People living in tents along about eight blocks of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside roam around on a chilly afternoon as some in the throes of addiction are hunched over on the sidewalk near storefronts.
Jan 1, 2023 2:00 AM
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Ottawa to temporarily require negative COVID-19 test from travellers from China
Ottawa plans to temporarily require people flying from China, Hong Kong and Macao to test negative for COVID-19 before leaving for Canada, beginning in early January.
Dec 31, 2022 4:45 PM
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