Patricia Aakhus

The tiny, half-pint cartons of milk served with millions of school lunches nationwide may soon be scarce in some cafeterias, with districts across the country scrambling to find alternatives. The problem is not a…
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Santiago, Chile - Canada's Philip Kim won the first-ever Pan American Games gold in men's breaking on Saturday and qualified for the Olympic Games. The 26-year-old from Vancouver, known as B-Boy Phil…
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OAKLAND, Calif. - A stretch of street in Oakland, Calif., was renamed Friday for Tupac Shakur, 27 years after the killing of the hip-hop luminary. A section of MacArthur Boulevard near where he lived…
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During the brief moments Nael Halees gets to speak to his wife and children in Gaza, the Palestinian-Canadian says it leaves him with a broken heart. "Every call that takes me hours and hours to get through,…
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UNITED NATIONS - The average Gazan is living on two pieces of Arabic bread made from flour the U.N. had stockpiled in the region, yet the main refrain now being heard in the street is "Water, water," the Gaza…
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LOS ANGELES - A former gynecologist at the University of California, Los Angeles who was sentenced to prison for sexually abusing student patients can be retried on charges involving additional women, a judge…
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SANTIAGO, Chile - When Claudia Laos-Loo tells people she competes in kata, she's prepared for "what's that?" and "why do you scream?" The 26-year-old martial artist from Surrey, B.C., earned a Pan…
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BAY BULLS, Newfoundland and Labrador - It’s a technical, scientific change: the Limit Reference Point, a key part of the assessment of a fish stock’s health, has been revised. But for Newfoundland and Labrador’s…
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Here's a list of various items Health Canada has recalled this week, including window coverings, cantaloupes and mushrooms.  EPIC RESIDENTIAL CONDESING BOILERS Health Canada issued a recall Thursday for…
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Ottawa - The president and CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada defended the public broadcaster and its independence Thursday from a fresh barrage of pointed Conservative questions about its coverage of the Israel-Hamas…
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