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    Jake Gyllenhaal embraced the physicality of 'Road House' role

    Jake Gyllenhaal discusses balancing working out and the physical aesthetics of his role in new action movie "Road House" (Mar. 19)

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    13 people trapped after mine collapse in Russia’s Far East

    Emergency officials say a gold mine collapse in Russia’s Far Eastern Amur region has trapped 13 people at a depth of about 125 meters. A rescue operation is underway to clear the transport slope and restore communication with the trapped miners.

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    Quebec's largest nursing union announces tentative contract deal with government

    Quebec's largest nurses' union, the Fédération interprofessionnelle de la santé du Québec (FIQ), announced Tuesday it has reached a tentative contract deal with the provincial government. Union president Julie Bouchard made the announcement in a statement. "After 16 months of negotiations, eight days of strikes and several mobilization actions and demonstrations … it will now be up to [members] to evaluate the work done at the negotiating table," she said. The proposed agreement will be presente

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    N.S. wine industry representatives suggest changes coming to controversial program

    Those for and against a controversial new wine support program left an almost two-hour meeting with Premier Tim Houston on Monday night happy to have discussed the issue in person and confident the two sides can live with possible changes. "The meeting was good," said Karl Coutinho, chair of the board at Wine Growers of Nova Scotia, a group that represents family-run wineries in the province."It was our first chance, from the farm wineries' perspective, to sit down with the premier and his team

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    Spring kicks off with heavy snow in Alberta, with 30 cm possible this week

    After days of record warmth, Alberta will see quite the reversal of fortunes this week, culminating in a multi-day snowfall event and a drastic temperature plunge

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    Feds plans to audit FSIN spending after allegations of misused public funds

    Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) is set to conduct a forensic audit of the funding it has given the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) over a nearly five-year span and how it has been spent.The FSIN represents 74 First Nations in Saskatchewan.CBC News obtained a letter sent by ISC to the FSIN executive, dated March 15. In it, ISC says it intends to review how the FSIN spent money provided by the ISC in several funding agreements from April 1, 2019, to the present and that the date

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    The province is paying $22 million for electricity from Kruger — and it has been for 6 weeks

    A $22-million deal between the provincial government and paper giant Kruger has been in effect since Feb. 1, though the first scant details of it were not released until last Friday afternoon as the provincial government headed into the St. Patrick's Day long weekend.The province — through Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro — had been paying for electricity from Kruger's hydroelectric dam at Deer Lake for six weeks by the time Kruger sent a news release saying a deal had been reached between the tw

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