Sue Jones

Raymond, a close-knit agricultural community about 250 kilometres southeast of Calgary, has been dry since it was founded in 1903. These days, you can drink in town, but you just can’t purchase alcohol there — yet.Sheva Whitehead, left, lives in Raymond and wants to see it grow to embrace serving alcohol in restaurants in town. Raymond…

A new course partnership between Salisbury’s J.M.A. Armstrong High School and MFC Training gives students a chance to take flight – and take the controls.Students in a new aviation course at J.M.A Armstrong High School in Salisbury went up on a plane at the Moncton Flight College. (Alexandre Silberman/CBC)Pilot Tim Holt guided a group of…

Canada submitted its response last month to a United Nations committee after Sipekne’katik First Nation in Nova Scotia asked the international body to investigate violence against Mi’kmaw fishers during the “moderate livelihood” lobster fishery in the fall of 2020. Mi’kmaw fishing boats are shown tied up at the Saulnierville wharf in southwest Nova Scotia on Oct…

The federal government has committed a total of $2.5 million for businesses impacted by the Ambassador Bridge blockade that shuttered the trade corridor between Windsor, Ont., and Detroit for nearly a week in February. Windsor, Ont., Mayor Drew Dilkens, left, joined Windsor-Tecumseh MP Irek Kusmierczyk, centre, and Stephen MacKenzie, CEO of Invest WindsorEssex, as the MP…

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced Friday that its avocado inspection program in Michoacan, Mexico, has restarted and avocado exports to the United States have resumed following a threat against one of the U.S. inspector. “The safety of USDA employees simply doing their jobs is of paramount importance,”…

Corfu Foods Inc. of Bensenville, IL, is recalling 6,570 pounds of swai, also known as catfish, imported from Vietnam that was not presented for import reinspection into the United States, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. “The problem was discovered when a company notified FSIS that they received…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has opened an application portal for accreditation bodies interested in participating in the Laboratory Accreditation for Analyses of Foods (LAAF) program. Under the LAAF program, the FDA will recognize accreditation bodies that will accredit food testing laboratories to standards established in the final rule on Laboratory Accreditation for Analyses of…

Hilary Knight entered the 2022 Beijing Games already etching her name in the history books. Beijing marked her fourth Olympics Games, tying her for the most Olympic selections among U.S. women. And she ended it with another one: On February 16, Knight played her 22nd Olympic game, which broke the record for the most ever…

There are various potential hidradenitis suppurativa (H.S.) causes to be aware of, because there isn’t just one single factor that fuels the development of the skin condition. Researchers still have a lot of questions about why H.S. occurs in certain people, including how its root causes can help experts better understand hidradenitis suppurativa treatment options.Hidradenitis…

In January, the 500-meter event in the speed skating U.S. Olympic Trials ended with a movie-worthy twist: First-place winner Brittany Bowe, who qualified for the Olympics in the event with her victory, gave up her spot in Beijing so her friend and teammate Erin Jackson could go in her place. Jackson, who was ranked number…