Jan Rose
Digital Journalist based in Calgary, AB, Canada.
Joined on Apr 28, 2009
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The recession that lowers prices in some areas is pushing them up on dinner tables. Canadians should brace for higher meat prices in the future.
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Canadians facing higher prices for products with grain can add beef to the list thanks to mother nature in western Canada.
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Alberta is moving incrementally to have a provincially appointed municipal auditor general watching over city or town councils.
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A letter of complaint from the National Farmers Union (NFU) has touched off a row between it and the Federal Minister of agriculture, Gerry Ritz.
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The Canadian Wheat Board foecasts that chilly weather in Western Canada is expected to drop major crop production in Western Canada by 20 per cent.
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Alberta's medical superboard is under fire from New Democrat Party leader Brian Mason for its decision to consolidate a service that analyzes pap smears.
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Pipeline giant Enbridge of Calgary, Alberta, admits that is footing the bill for a northern advocacy group in British Columbia to generate community support for its proposed $4.5 billion pipeline project.
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Talking points in an internal memo prepared for Conservative members of the Alberta legislative assembly reveals a growing division between federal and provincial Tories.
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In wealthy Alberta, Canada's richest province, emergency care at a hospital is compromised by a lack of beds to send patients to.
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The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society has been given intervenor status before the United States Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to fight a proposed dam that threatens to submerge a river valley in the province of British Columbia, Canada.
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Despite an offer recently from Canada Safeway at the eleventh hour, the only laser surgery for enlarged prostates was removed from the Rockyview Hospital in Calgary, Alberta. The grocery chain offered to pay $100,000 or more to keep the machine running.
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Even as Parks Canada entices Canadians with an advertising campaign to visit national parks this year, former park wardens are warning there is inadequate protection.
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Canada and the United States could get a very black eye should Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park be designated a World Heritage Site in Danger.
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Like it or not Canadian consumers could unknowingly be eating genetically modified Atlantic salmon in the future developed by a US company.
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Job seekers take note: a new interview method developed at McMaster University that is difficult to ace might appear in the corporate world.
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The Harper government is being accused by top Canadian scientists of politicizing science funding and jeopardizing climate research.
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Eighty groups have called on the federal government to stop the introduction and field testing of genetically modified alfalfa by Monsanto.
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Parks Canada is freezing national gate fees. The freeze includes Jasper and Banff, to entice Canadians to visit more often.
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Wal-Mart Canada is to build a 400,000-square-foot grocery distribution centre in Balzac, Alberta, just north of Calgary, at a cost of $115 million.
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A former businessman with ties to the oil and gas industry in the Canadian province of Alberta will head a multi-million dollar climate change technology fund.
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