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WINNIPEG — Manitoba is preparing to join other provinces and increase the tax on vaping products next year as a way to discourage their use, especially among young people.

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MONTREAL — Unions representing more than 200,000 Quebec government workers reached tentative working condition deals with the government over the weekend, but that may not be enough to stave off a strike in the new year.

VICTORIA — British Columbia seniors who face eviction from long-term, affordable rental housing face "catastrophic" consequences and a growing number of older residents are at risk of becoming homeless, says the province's seniors advocate.

WINNIPEG — Manitoba's health minister and its top doctor are urging people to get vaccinated before joining family and friends over the holidays. Dr.

Alberta's premier has reacted to criticism her province toned down this year's vaccination campaign, telling listeners to her call-in radio show that "most people can make their own judgements on their own level of risk.

HONOLULU (AP) — The state has announced the first recipients of a program aimed at helping medical professionals pay off student loans in exchange for a two-year commitment to provide care in Hawaii. Gov.

DORA, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama woman with two uteri and two cervixes has given birth to two babies after carrying one of them in each uterus. Kelsey Hatcher of Dora, about 28 miles (45.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — When Alexis Cholas lost his right arm as a volunteer combat medic near the front lines in eastern Ukraine , his civilian career as a surgeon was over.

The U.N. Security Council passed a new resolution that calls for speeding up humanitarian aid deliveries into Gaza, but without the original insistence on an “urgent suspension of hostilities” between Israel and Hamas.