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Winnipegosis senior travelling hours for dialysis amid Dauphin hospital closure
01 Aug 2026
A Manitoba senior says the 10-hour travel days to get kidney dialysis in Brandon are exhausting. Mike Beyak, 78, lives in Winnipegosis, about 55 kilometres north of Dauphin.
City of Winnipeg seeks design proposals for new Waverley West fire-paramedic station
01 Aug 2026
The City of Winnipeg is seeking proposals for the design of a new fire-paramedic station for one of its fastest growing neighbourhoods.
Court approves $30M settlement in B.C. Catholic school sex abuse class action lawsuit
01 Aug 2026
The B.C. Supreme Court has approved a $30-million settlement of a class-action lawsuit filed over historical claims of physical, psychological and sexual abuse at two schools in Metro Vancouver run by the Catholic Church.
Judge says Quebec violated Christian group's freedom of expression
01 Aug 2026
A Quebec Superior Court judge has ordered the provincial government and a former tourism minister to pay more than $60,000 to an anti-abortion group after ruling that Caroline Proulx unlawfully breach
Ottawa mosquito pool tests positive for West Nile virus for 1st time this season
01 Aug 2026
Ottawa Public Health says it has confirmed West Nile Virus in the local mosquito population for the first time this year.
Bug spray shortage bites some western Manitoba shops amid 'horrific' mosquito swarms
01 Aug 2026
Some people in western Manitoba are having a hard time finding bug spray for the long weekend as local shops experience a shortage.
Police to march in Vancouver Pride Parade after 6 years
01 Aug 2026
It marks a major shift for the annual event, after parade organizers barred police from marching in 2020 saying Pride’s roots lie in “uprising against police brutality.”
Grinder, the Grouse Mountain grizzly bear, dies
01 Aug 2026
Grinder was a 25-year-old grizzly from Invermere, B.C., found as an orphaned cub on a logging road in 2001 before being taken to the Grouse Mountain Wildlife Refuge.
Recovering sunken B.C. charter must be done carefully to preserve evidence: RCMP
01 Aug 2026
Mounties say raising a sunken fishing charter in the Straight of Georgia near Richmond, B.C., where six people are presumed drowned, needs to be done carefully as the vessel is considered evidence in their investigation.
Less invasive heart bypass surgery just as good as traditional method, Canadian-led study finds
01 Aug 2026
A new Canadian-led study has found that a minimally invasive technique to perform bypass surgery — the most common heart surgery in the world — is as safe as the standard procedure that has been carried out for decades.
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By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.
