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By AFP
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Day two of legal recreational cannabis in Canada on Thursday saw more long lineups outside pot stores and supply shortages in parts of the country.
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Canada will host a G7 multistakeholder conference on artificial intelligence on December 6, as part of the Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) conference, the government has announced.
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By AFP
Ottawa -
Canada on Wednesday became the world's first major economy to fully legalize cannabis, sparking celebrations as the nation embarked on the controversial experiment in drug policy.
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By AFP
Ottawa -
Nearly a century of marijuana prohibition came to an end Wednesday as Canada became the first major Western nation to legalize and regulate its sale and recreational use.
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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has issued an updated recall for Abbott brand liquid nutrition products in 235 mL metal cans due to possible bacterial contamination.
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By AFP
Ottawa -
Pot stores across much of Canada were poised to throw open their doors Wednesday as the sale and recreational use of cannabis is made legal for the first time by a major Western country.Stores in St.
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By AFP
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When Donald Trump insisted on renaming the updated North American Free Trade Agreement, the "America first" president pointedly listed the US before the other countries, calling it the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
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By AFP
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As Canada prepares on Wednesday to become only the second country in the world to legalize the use of marijuana, experts in Uruguay say its pioneering move three years ago helped to reduce drug trafficking in the South American nation.
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By AFP
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Canada's foreign minister called Monday for a full and transparent probe on the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, during a telephone conversation with her Saudi counterpart.
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Ottawa -
On October 17 across Canada, legal marijuana will be available to the public, if you're old enough, but many Canadians will be disappointed to learn they may not be able to buy and consume legal weed then.
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By AFP
Ottawa -
Canada's top medical journal warned Monday that the imminent legalization of cannabis for recreation use poses a major health concern despite broad support for ending the prohibition.
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By AFP
Ottawa -
Canada will end its pot prohibition Wednesday with the goals of curbing the black market and use by youth, amid concerns around the public health and safety merits of legalization.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suggested Saturday morning the incoming Quebec government's plan to raise the legal age for smoking cannabis to 21 could leave an opening for organized crime.
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By AFP
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A near miss involving an Air Canada plane which almost landed on a crowded taxiway instead of a runway at San Francisco airport last year could have been the "worst aviation accident in history," according to an official report.
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By AFP
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Canada on Friday will become the second country in the world to legalize cannabis -- with the provinces left to work out the details of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's landmark measure.
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Cannabis industry companies have several "deficiencies" in their disclosures to investors, including insufficient information in their financial statements, Canadian securities regulators say.
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By AFP
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An explosion and fire ripped through Canada's largest refinery Monday in what the company that owns it called a "major incident."Local media said there were only minor injuries reported from the blast and fire at the Irving Oil refinery in St.
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The origins of Canadian and American Thanksgiving are unique, and while there are many similarities, as for example, celebrating the harvest season and eating turkey, there are also many differences.
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The supply of legal pot in Canada will only meet 30 percent to 60 percent of demand after legalization, keeping the black market very much alive and stunting the government’s tax take, according to a new study.
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Eight cannabis growers have been charged with marijuana trafficking after local residents complained to police about cannabis farms where more pot was allegedly grown than legally allowed, York Regional Police say.
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By AFP
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Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi became the first person to be stripped of honorary Canadian citizenship on Tuesday over her refusal to call out atrocities by her nation's military against the Rohingya Muslim minority.
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By AFP
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Canada's Donna Strickland, the first female Nobel Prize winner in physics since 1963, said Tuesday that women have "come a long way" since the previous laureate, Maria Goeppert Mayer."When I get on my soapbox if I'm teaching them, I talk about Mary.
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By AFP
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Canada's Quebec province elected, for the first time Monday, a centre-right nationalist party with no designs on independence, that promised to cut government and immigration, turning the page on nearly 15 years of liberal rule.
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By AFP
Ottawa -
Canada's Justin Trudeau Monday hailed a new continental trade pact with the United States and Mexico as "profoundly beneficial" for Canadians -- but the prime minister must now sell the deal to skeptical dairy farmers, unions and voters.
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By AFP
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US President Donald Trump sought to patch up any lingering bitterness with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Monday, calling him a "good man" after they agreed on a new trade accord.
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By AFP
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President Donald Trump on Monday hailed the 11th-hour trade deal struck between the United States, Mexico and Canada to replace the quarter-century old NAFTA accord, calling it the biggest in US history.
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By AFP
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called the new continental trade agreement with the United States and Mexico "a good day for Canada," but must now sell it to dairy farmers, unions and voters.
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By AFP
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Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has given his blessing to the new US-Canada-Mexico trade deal, his future foreign minister said Monday, as officials indicated it would be signed just before he takes office.
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By AFP
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Canadian dairy farmers castigated Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government Monday for yielding to US demands for greater access to Canada's protected milk and cheese market as part of a new continental trade pact, but auto workers were pleased.
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By AFP
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President Donald Trump on Monday hailed a US trade pact with Canada and Mexico, which replaces the old NAFTA deal, as a historic agreement set to turn North America back into a "manufacturing powerhouse" and fuel US economic expansion.
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Part of Traboulay Trail, a 14 km biking and hikinng route that runs through Colony Farm in Port Coquitlam, BC.
PC Organics Apple, Blueberry & Green Pea strained baby food product is shown. CFIA
Fire station in Mission, BC, close to Stave Lake.
Rally to for the Government Support Refugee Claimants. Yvonne Chiu, Multicultural Health Brokers.
Researchers are testing the waters of the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick, Canada, hoping to discover cancer-fighting bacteria. Michael Sprague (msprague)/Flickr.com
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Figurines parade, German part of European Festival performance, Burnaby, BC, Canada
A moment of tranquility at the Middle Joffre Lake, Pemberton, BC, Canada.
A roof and wall architecture with rich colours at the International Buddhist Temple, Richmond, BC.
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Muskrat in Toronto's Tommy Thompson Park
A Canadian soldier undergoing medical treatment after recieving mustard gas burns from a German chemical weapons attack during the first World War. Note the bullae - which are characteristic of mustard gas injuries - on the neck, armpit and hands. Library and Archives Canada
Ice crystals formed around autumn still green leaves and plant debris.
Wax figures of famous people populate Louis Tussaud's Waxworks in Niagara Falls, Ontario.
St. Patrick's Day parade in downtown Vancouver.
The Byward Market in Ottawa is Canada's oldest continuously operating farmers' market.
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