Halifax health workers set six am picket start
About 2900 workers represented by the Nova Scotia Government Employees Union will begin picket lines at 6 a.m. Wednesday after reaching a legal strike position. Union president Joan Jessome said the move protects patients as employers prepare.
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Halifax
Joan Jessome
Nova Scotia Government Employees Union
Jessome
Suspect in Montreal highway shooting to face murder charge
A 42-year-old RCMP officer will be charged with murder for a highway shooting that killed Lucie Gelinas and wounded three others. Gelinas, 37, of Laval, was the victim and ex-girlfriend of the suspect. The officer’s name will be released on Tuesday. The incident occurred on a major Montreal highway late Saturday night.
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Montreal
RCMP
Cpl
Jean Finet
Quebec
Lucie Gelinas
Laval
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Alliance Party Splinter Threat Looms Over Canadian Right
Alliance members warn the right may split into three parties as Stockwell Day leads, with nine dissident MPs meeting in Calgary to discuss forming a new party. They fear leadership battles and a potential failure to unite against the Liberals. Conservative Joe Clark is seen as an obstacle to uniting the right.
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House of Commons
Association
B.C
Skeena
Andy Burton
Stockwell Day
Burton
West Coast
Dmonton
Canada
Alliance Party
Jim Stevenson
Day
Stevenson
Art Hanger
Calgary North
Hanger
Calgary
Edmonton
Stockwell
Reform
Edmonton Southwest
James Rajette
Liberals
Rajette
Northern Alberta
Canadians join Mars habitat drill in Arctic rehearsal
Vancouver physicist Steve Braham will live eight weeks in a two-storey cylinder with five colleagues on Devon Island's Haughton Crater simulating Mars operations. The crew will test science in a small habitat, manage water mass against morale, and endure seven minute radio delays as they study crew behavior and robotics in a dress rehearsal for real missions.
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Steve Braham
Vancouver
Mars
Braham
Canadian Arctic
Simon Fraser University
Red Planet
NASA
Mars Society
Haughton Crater
Devon Island
Mars Arctic Research Station
Darlene Lim
University of Toronto
Society
Robert Zubrin
Earth
Zubrin
Mission Control
Canada
Arctic
Link Between Livestock Antibiotics and Resistant Bacteria Found
Researchers at the University of Illinois traced tetracycline-resistant genes from two large hog facilities to nearby soil and groundwater, showing a transfer of resistance into the environment. Darrin Qualman of the National Farmers Union warns the issue worsens as confinement livestock grows.
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Winnipeg
Darrin Qualman
National Farmers Union
University of Illinois
Rustam Aminov
Illinois
United States
Aminov
Canadians split on legalized marijuana poll results
A Leger Marketing poll of 1,507 Canadians from June 5 to 13 shows 46.8 percent in favor of legal marijuana for personal use and 47 percent opposed, with regional support ranging from 36.9 percent in Alberta to 52.7 percent in Quebec.
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Leger
Jean-Marc Leger
Leger Marketing
Quebec
British Columbia
Ontario
The
Maritimes
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
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