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N.W.T. receives millions to improve health care
05 Oct 2026
Federal and territorial funding will go toward improving access, as well as 16 infrastructure projects across 12 communities.
Record number of candidates bring diversity to Yellowknife municipal ballots
05 Oct 2026
With 21 people running for city council, and only seven with previous political experience, the new city council could look very different.
Corner Brook man who allegedly stabbed Valley Mall store owner granted bail
05 Oct 2026
A judge granted bail to Gregg Musakanda who is facing multiple charges, including aggravated assault, assault with a weapon and breaking and entering, following a Sept. 14 alleged attack on a store owner in the Valley Mall in Corner Brook.
Defence raises issue with disclosure of key evidence in incest and bestiality case
05 Oct 2026
The Crown is not handing over video evidence alleged to contain child sexual assault material, instead telling the defence they can view the video at police headquarters. That's a problem, the defence
Over 75 in N.L.? You can now get vaccinated against RSV
05 Oct 2026
"There really isn't any treatment for RSV specifically, so immunization really is the best way to prevent severe RSV disease and the complications that can happen from that," said Dr. Janice Fitzgeral
Teen charged after electric dirt bike collides with Fredericton bus
05 Oct 2026
Fredericton police have charged the 16-year-old boy operating an electric dirt bike that crashed with a city transit bus.
3 candidates vying for front-runner status ahead of Mississauga election: poll
05 Oct 2026
It's going to be a tight mayoral race in Mississauga with three candidates, including the current and former mayors, now neck and neck among decided and leaning voters, a new poll suggests.
Liberals ask auditor general to investigate OSAP spending at private career colleges
05 Oct 2026
The Ontario Liberals are asking the auditor general to investigate provincial student financial aid spending at private career colleges.
13 guns, 20,000 rounds of ammo seized from homes north of Winnipeg: RCMP
05 Oct 2026
Two men have been charged with multiple offences after police seized 13 guns and about 20,000 rounds of ammunition from a pair of homes just north of Winnipeg.
U.S. hunter charged in Sask. crash that killed 3 still in hospital as court process begins
05 Oct 2026
The town of Foam Lake is mourning after 3 people died in a crash on Friday.
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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.
