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Hemp industry looks to Ottawa for regulation changes
OTTAWA -- Health food and hemp industry groups want Ottawa to change the regulations for C-B-D to treat the cannabinoid as a natural health product rather than a drug.The Canadian Health Food Associat...
May 17, 2019 Photo credit to Agriculture Canada

12 arrested in downtown Lethbridge 'targeted enforcement project'
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Police officers in Lethbridge have arrested one dozen people after conducting what they call a 'targeted enforcement project' in downtown Lethbridge. On May 16, 2019, members of the D...
May 17, 2019 Lethbridge Police

Toronto FC waiting on Altidore's health -- and next transfer window
Toronto FC ends a stretch of five games in 15 days Saturday when it faces Real Salt Lake City at Rio Tinto Stadium with a question-mark over key forward Jozy Altidore. The U.S. international's fi...
May 17, 2019

Huawei hit by US export controls, potential import ban
In a fateful swipe at telecommunications giant Huawei, the Trump administration issued an executive order Wednesday apparently aimed at banning its equipment from U.S. networks and said it was subject...
May 17, 2019

LPS seeking the public’s help to find missing high-risk female youth
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Lethbridge Police are looking for the public's help to locate a missing 14-year-old high risk female. Ashley Marburg was reported missing on May 14, and she was reported to be in the ...
May 17, 2019

Business manager sentenced for defrauding Ne-Yo, McKnight
NEWARK, N.J. - A New Jersey man who served as business manager for Ne-Yo has been sentenced in Ohio to more than seven years in prison for defrauding the R&B singer in a sports beverage scheme. Ke...
May 17, 2019

RCMP video brings home reality in a 'visceral way': former TRC chairman
OTTAWA - Former Truth and Reconciliation commissioner Murray Sinclair says a video of a Mountie interrogating a young Indigenous woman disclosing sexual abuse in B.C. foster care brings home...
May 17, 2019

Woodstock 50 festival: Investment bank is lining up money
NEW YORK - Organizers of the Woodstock 50 festival are signalling progress toward resolving a financial crunch after a falling-out with backer Amplifi Live. The festival announced Friday that investme...
May 17, 2019

University gets horror filmmaker George Romero's archives
PITTSBURGH - The University of Pittsburgh is getting a spooky addition: the archives of late iconic horror filmmaker George A. Romero. Romero's horror flicks date back to the 1968 film "Night of the L...
May 17, 2019

Canadian company pleads guilty to peddling vast database of personal information
OTTAWA - The RCMP says a Canadian-based company that peddled an illicit trove of 1.5 billion user names and associated passwords has pleaded guilty to criminal charges. In a news r...
May 17, 2019