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November 28, 2018 / 9:36 pm | story:
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According to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, two brands of tahini-based products have been recalled due to possible contamination with salmonella.

The agency announced Wednesday that seven Achva tahini products sold in packs of 500 grams and 18 kilos had been recalled, as well as 18 kilogram containers of pure tahini from S & F.

It states that tahini has been sold in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario and Quebec, and may have been distributed in other provinces.

The CFIA reported reporting cases of illness badociated with the consumption of these products, but did not specify the number of cases.

He advises people to discard the recalled products or bring them back to the store where they were purchased.

The agency says that Salmonella-contaminated foods may not look or feel spoiled, but can still make you sick.

Young children, pregnant women, and people with weakened immune systems can get serious or life-threatening infections. Symptoms include fever, headache, vomiting, nausea, abdominal cramps, and diarrhea.

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Nov 28, 2018 / 7:55 pm | story:
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Global Affairs Canada says another Canadian diplomat in Cuba has fallen ill, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 13.

This includes diplomats at the Canadian Embbady in Havana, as well as their dependents, who have contracted a mysterious illness that causes vertigo, headaches and difficulty concentrating.

Global Affairs said the government is continuing its research into the cause of the unknown disease, adding that the health and safety of diplomatic personnel and their families is a top priority.

According to the ministry, the person who has fallen ill most recently "receives the necessary medical care".

It is said that Canadian diplomatic personnel can return to Canada as they wish.

The government also plans to hold a teleconference Thursday to provide more details about the investigation.

The Canadian press –
Nov 28, 2018 / 6:46 pm | story:
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A sanctuary of Manitoba farms invites people to meet a nice giant after the viral photo of a beef Australian dominant other cows.

Knickers the Holstein is in the headlines of Down Under because it is a little under two meters high and weighs about 1.4 tons.

But Dozer, the direction near Steinbach is about 2.5 centimeters longer.

And this is not a bull.

Karl Schoenrock, of Kismet Creek Farm, hosted Dozer last spring, from an Alberta landlord who wanted a better quality of life for his enormous leadership.

Schoenrock says the farm takes animals to live their natural lives.

"Everyone is smaller than Dozer, and even our horses and everything else can not be compared," he said on Wednesday.

"He's so calm, with his behavior."

Dozer currently shares a pasture with two other steers and a horse.

The Canadian press –
Nov 28, 2018/17 pm | story:
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Union leaders and politicians who are talking about saving a General Motors plant in Oshawa, Ontario, are selling "false hope," Doug Ford, the union leader representing the affected auto workers, said on Wednesday. the Prime Minister to undermine efforts to fight work. cuts.

Ford held a press conference after an emergency cabinet meeting on GM closing Wednesday afternoon. The Prime Minister has accused Unifor President Jerry Dias, as well as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other politicians, of "indictment" when they pledged to fight the closure .

"When we hear about these people, all we hear is a group of very powerful people," Ford said. "They are busy fighting and raising false hopes, but privately they know that the GM factory will not come back."

Ford said the upcoming fight for the 2,500 auto workers affected by the imminent plant closure will consist of finding new jobs, and he promised to help them in this task.

He added that he thought GM was considering this change for a long time and had speculated that, if he had been prime minister before the June elections, the closure might have been avoided .

"GM has not decided that in the next six months that Doug Ford has taken over," Ford said. "In fact, if Doug Ford had been there for five years, they probably would not have left because I would have reduced their taxes, their electricity rates … and made it attractive that businesses stay here. . "

At the press conference, Ford asked Trudeau to abandon his plan to impose a carbon tax on the provinces to boost job creation in Ontario and overall from the country. He invited Trudeau, whom he will meet at a conference of prime ministers in Montreal next week, to abandon the carbon pricing plan.

"You can not campaign for an employment-damaging carbon tax Monday and sit down and ask yourself why jobs in the manufacturing and automotive sectors are disappearing on Tuesday."

Dias fought back at Ford on Wednesday, saying the prime minister's reaction to the situation was against his public reputation as a fighter – and his slogan of running a government "for the people".

"There are many who describe him as an award-winning fighter," he said. "But just before entering the arena, they faint, it would be him, I'm just fascinated by the weakness of his role in all that."

Dias accused Ford of being "intimidated" by General Motors and said his comments since the announcement of job cuts have undermined efforts to fight GM's decision.

"If he's not ready to fight, he should just stay silent and stand aside," he said.

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Nov 28, 2018 / 17h22 | story:
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A smartphone and a television receive visual and audible alerts to test Alert Ready, a national public alert system in Montreal, May 7, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS / Ryan Remiorz

This was not perfect, but officials say the second test of the new national public alert system for mobile devices in Canada has gone better than the initial test of there. to six months.

Mobile phones, TVs and radios were boiling across the country Wednesday as the Alert Ready system sent test alerts at 13:55. local time, with the exception of Quebec where the test was conducted one hour later.

"In terms of evolution, I would say it's a significant improvement over May," said Tim Warmington, spokesperson for Public Safety Canada.

"Alerts were issued in every province and territory of the country on television, radio and wireless."

Only 60% of wireless users in Manitoba received an alert when testing the system last May. In Ontario, some test alerts were heard and felt on mobile devices, but many wireless subscribers received no signals.

The first test was not audible in Quebec because of a coding error, which, according to the system operator, was corrected in a few hours.

Warmington said there was no data yet on the number of Canadians who received the last warning. But he said you can rest badured that it's higher than last time.

"The question was well documented in Quebec, where a quarter of the population lives.The mere fact that the alarm was triggered in Quebec means that it will be absolutely better."

A Pelmorex official, who manages the National Aggregation and Warning System (NAAD), said the test was successful in all provinces.

"We quickly validate and disseminate these alerts to TV and radio broadcasters and wireless service providers for broadcast to the public," said Martin Belanger, Director of Public Alerts.

"We can confirm that the NAAD system, integrated with Alert Ready, has worked as expected for all current test messages."

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Nov 28, 2018/14 h 26 | story:
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A grizzly bear expert said that deadly attacks, such as that perpetrated against a woman and her baby in the Yukon, are unusual and that it is important to conduct a thorough investigation into what has happened.

According to the Yukon Coroner Service, 37-year-old Valérie Theoret and her 10-month-old baby Adele Roesholt died Monday in the Einarson Lake area near the NWT border.

The service said that a call arrived around 3:45 pm. from a trapper, Gjermund Roesholt, who claimed to have been charged by a grizzly bear about 100 meters from a cabin that Roesholt had shared with his wife and baby.

He said he shot the bear before finding his wife's and baby's bodies just outside the cabin.

Chris Servheen, coordinator of the Grizzly Bear Recovery for the US Fish and Wildlife Service for 35 years, said that it was unusual to see a deadly attack of grizzly bear.

"It's very unfortunate, especially when a woman and a child have been involved," he said in an interview with Missoula, Mount. "It's a very sad situation – something nobody likes to see happen – and that's why it's important to understand what's going on here.

"It would be helpful to try to understand why it happened, if it can be determined by careful recreation of events."

"It could be a surprise meeting, maybe they were walking around the cabin and a bear was approaching from a corner and they were surprising a bear to a teddy bear. bearing, "he said. "It could be a case where a bear would be hungry and look for food around the cabin, perhaps looking for something to eat. attack and take it to him.There have been cases like this in the past. "

Servheen said that investigators should also consider the state of the bear.

"Was he in bad shape, was he old, had bad teeth?" he said. "These kinds of things can give you information about the potential motivation of the bear."

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Nature Canada has released a new report that time spent in front of a screen has a major negative impact on the health of Canada's children.

According to the report, the vast majority of Canadian children exceed the recommended screening duration for their age and 85% of children aged 5 to 17 do not follow sleep or physical activity guidelines.

The report is entitled "Time spent in front of a screen against green weather: the effects of too many screens on health" and calls for the participation of medical professionals and doctors. the research.

"We are seeing a downward trend in the number of physical activities in children every day because of sedentary behavior related to the time spent in front of a screen," said Dr. Mark Tremblay, group director. research on healthy active living and obesity at CHEO. Research Institute in Ottawa and Professor at the University of Ottawa.

"The long-term consequences of excessive screen time, prolonged sedentary behavior, and physical inactivity include increased risk of metabolic and cardiovascular problems, such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease, and time spent in nature and on the outside is an easy antidote to these consequences. of modern life, "he said.

Dr. Michael Cheng, a psychiatrist at CHEO, said he was concerned that the excessive screening time being linked to the development of anxiety and sleep disorders in children, he was witnessing a slight increase the demand for mental health services in his office. It prescribes nature to help with the epidemic.

"Families who spend pleasant moments in nature will rediscover the most powerful antidepressant, go out and connect with each other," Cheng said.

The report finds that spending time in the wild has many positive health outcomes.

"When our parents told us to go out and play, they actually gave us some great health advice," said Jill Sturdy, NatureHood Program Manager at Nature Canada. . "Unfortunately, today's excessive use of the screen not only deprives our children of outdoor play, it also hurts our children's health."

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Nov 28, 2018 / 11h39 | story:
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Canada Post employees have been reinstated in the legislation after more than five weeks of rotating strikes, but this does not prevent their brothers from picking up signs to support them – and slowing the mail down again.

Just after the federal government pbaded legislation this week forcing the members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers to end the strike, the union warned that other unions could act in response. And today, they did it.

CUPW says several large unions in British Columbia have set up pickets at the Pacific Processing Center in Richmond.

Protesters said they would allow workers to enter the facility, which is the country's third largest postal sorting plant, but trucks carrying mail would not be allowed to enter or exit.

CUPW National President Mike Palecek said that if his 50,000 members are banned from picketing, the other union members are not subject to any similar restrictions.

"What we are seeing in Vancouver today is that instead of settling our dispute with Canada Post, the Trudeau government has fought against the unions," Palecek said in a statement. a statement. "" An injury to one is an injury to all ", it's much more than a slogan."

The union declared the back-to-work bill, Bill C-89, unconstitutional.

The law came into effect Monday night, forcing postal workers to return to work yesterday as an arbitration process is launched to try to settle the contractual disputes between Canada Post and its main union.

The state company said it was doing everything possible to have the mail and parcels sorted in British Columbia. non-CUPW pickets disrupted delivery truck traffic.

"Canada Post is making every effort to minimize downtime and resolve the situation."

The agency warned of significant delivery delays throughout the country until January due to rotating strikes by CUPW members that began on October 22.

The Canadian press –
Nov 28, 2018 / 11:05 | story:
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Loved people cried in a courtroom in Calgary hearing the testimony of a retiree who said he saw a little girl get into a car with a person who looked like the man accused of to have killed him.

Edward Downey, 48, is charged with the first-degree murder of Sara Baillie and her five-year-old daughter Taliyah Marsman in July 2016.

Douglas Jesson testified that he lived in the same neighborhood as the mother and daughter and was at home the day Baillie was found dead in his basement apartment.

Jesson said he was looking out the side window and saw a chunky black man walking with a black haired girl who seemed to cry.

He said that the girl, with a suitcase and rain boots with red and white polka dots, walked in front of the man from a white car and headed for a sedan with tinted windows.

The lawsuit has already learned that Baillie had a white Ford Fusion and that Downey would drive the car of her friend of the time, a gray Dodge Charger with dark windows.

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Nov 28, 2018 / 10:15 am | story:
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Scott Thomas, father of striker Evan Thomas, 18 year old Broncos.

A Saskatchewan judge approved a committee's recommendation on how to distribute $ 15.2 million raised during a GoFundMe campaign after the Humboldt Broncos bus crash.

Judge Neil Gabrielson agreed that families who lost a loved one in the April 6 accident should receive a payment of $ 525,000. He also accepted a $ 475,000 recommendation for each of the 13 surviving players.

Both payments include an interim payment of $ 50,000 already approved in August.

The judge stated that he felt that the committee was motivated in its decision.

"It's rare that a great tragedy is accompanied by a great generosity," Gabrielson said in an audience Wednesday in Saskatoon. "Such was the genesis of the money collected."

The bus and the hockey team of the junior hockey team collided in rural Saskatchewan, while the Broncos were about to go to a playoff game. Sixteen people were killed and 13 players were injured.

The committee was made up of five people and its recommendations were based on discussions with families in recent months.

Jeff Lee, a lawyer with Humboldt Broncos Memorial Fund Inc., said the committee's report was serious, well-reasoned and his recommendations supported by an badysis.

Some parents had suggested that money be divided equally.

Lee said that there was a great emotional difference between families who had lost someone and those who had lost it.

Lee called the difference in the amounts paid "modest".

The Canadian press –
Nov 28, 2018 / 10h11 | story:
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Alberta Premier Rachel Notley said her government would buy its own cars to get more oil to the market.

She added that her province wanted the federal government to cooperate to buy them, but as the price of oil in Alberta is almost at its lowest, it can not wait any longer.

Although the oil pipeline projects are stalled, Mr. Notley wants other ways to get the product from the Alberta oil reserve to buyers.

The deal is expected to be completed within a few weeks and Alberta expects the two new rail cars to carry an additional 120,000 barrels of oil a day.

Notley says that the world price of oil is low, but that Alberta suffers even more because the oil produced is stuck away from refineries.

Notley is in Ottawa Wednesday to try to urge the federal government to act faster because the problems of Alberta are hurting the entire Canadian economy.