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Biden's budget proposal for a second term offers tax breaks for families and lower health care costs
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) - President Joe Biden on Monday released a budget proposal aimed at getting voters' attention: It would offer tax breaks for families, lower health care costs, smaller deficits a...
Mar 11, 2024
B.C. begins offering in-province immunotherapy treatment for lymphoma, leukemia
VANCOUVER - British Columbia is beginning to offer an immunotherapy cancer treatment in the province for some patients who haven't had success with standard chemotherapy or radiation. Chimeric antigen...
Mar 10, 2024
Review finds states’ rules often put the burden of enforcing open government on private citizens
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) - Dana Holladay-Hollifield has worked as a nurse in Alabama for years, but never was her pay as low as it was at Huntsville Hospital. She wondered what executives at the not-for-...
Mar 09, 2024
Nationwide review finds patchwork, ‘broken’ systems for resolving open records disputes
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) - Dana Holladay-Hollifield has worked as a nurse in Alabama for years, but never was her pay as low as it was at Huntsville Hospital. She wondered what executives at the not-for-...
Mar 09, 2024
West Virginia lawmakers OK bill drawing back one of the country's strictest child vaccination laws
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - West Virginia's GOP-controlled state Legislature voted Saturday to allow some students who don't attend traditional public schools to be exempt from state vaccination requirem...
Mar 09, 2024
B.C. class action alleges menstruation cycle tracking app breached users' privacy
VANCOUVER - A British Columbia Supreme Court judge says a class-action lawsuit can move forward over alleged privacy breaches against a company that made an app to track users' menstrual and fertility...
Mar 08, 2024
B.C. RCMP announce seizure of millions of dollars worth of contraband cigarettes
SURREY, B.C. - Police in British Columbia say they've seized more than 27 tonnes of contraband cigarettes worth more than $24 million in a pair of investigations over the past year. Assistant RCMP Com...
Mar 08, 2024
San Francisco mayor touts possibilities after voters expand police powers, gets tough on drug users
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Mayor London Breed on Thursday pledged even more improvements under a pair of controversial public safety proposals voters approved this week that expand police powers and force s...
Mar 07, 2024
B.C. health authority warns of possible privacy breach after police recover documents
VERNON, B.C. - An RCMP investigation has revealed a possible privacy breach for thousands of employees who worked or work at a health authority in British Columbia's Interior. Interior Health says pol...
Mar 07, 2024
Manitoba plans buffer zones to restrict protests near abortion clinics
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government plans to restrict protests near clinics and hospitals where abortions are performed, as well as at the homes of abortion providers. The NDP government introduced a b...
Mar 07, 2024
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Sarah Mills: Floor crossing should be a choice between sitting as an independent or running in a byelection
Sarah Mills says floor crossing from any party in the House of Commons just one year into a mandate shouldn't be allowed...
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