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READ MORE Two prison farms in Kingston, Ont., will be coming back with new money from the federal Liberals, nearly a decade after the program was cut by the previous Conservative government. This week’s federal budget commits $4.3 million to restore the farms at the Joyceville and Collins Bay institutions later this year or in 2019. “We are really excited that the money has been given to restore the farms,” said Jeff Peters, part of the Pen Farm Herd Co-op, which bought cattle from the prison farms when they were shut down. “It’s been a really long haul.”     Liberals to study restoring Kingston, Ont., prison farms Kingston’s cows are closer to coming home to prison ‘He was a legend’: Stormy the prison farm protest donkey dead at 40 Peters was one of hundreds of people who campaigned to save the program, and one of dozens who were arrested in 2010. Farms closed by Conservatives Despite those effort...

READ MORE Credit unions across the country will once again be able to use the words “bank,” “banker” and “banking” to describe what they do, thanks to a one-line entry buried on page 356 of the federal budget. Last June, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) announced it would start applying the rules of the Bank Act to all non-bank financial service providers, such as trust and loan companies and unregulated financial service providers — which meant they wouldn’t be able to use the words bank, banker or banking. After an outcry from credit unions over how difficult it would be to compete fairly with banks , and over the cost of updating things like websites, signage and marketing materials, the federal government said in August it would review the matter . Because of that review, OSFI suspended its advisory. Why credit unions will no longer be able offer ‘banking’ services ...

READ MORE “I am amazed that we’ve discovered a new way that atoms assemble,” said Rice University physicist Tom Killian. “It shows how rich the laws of physics and chemistry can be.” Killian is the lead scientist on a new paper in Physical Review Letters (PRL) that summarized the group’s experimental findings. Killian teamed with experimental physicists from Rice’s Center for Quantum Materials and theoretical physicists from Harvard University and Vienna University of Technology on the two-year project to create “Rydberg polarons” out of strontium atoms that were at least 1 million times colder than deep space. Rice University physicist Tom KillianThe team’s findings, which are summarized in the PRL paper and a companion theoretical study appearing this week in Physical Review A (PRA) , reveal something new about the basic nature of matter, Killian said. “The basic laws that we learn in chemistry class tell us how atoms ...

READ MORE As part of the study, they found that when pregnant women took a daily fish oil capsule from 20 weeks pregnant, and during the first three to four months of breastfeeding, risk of egg allergy in the child was reduced by 30 per cent. The team, who were commissioned by the Food Standards Agency, also found that taking a daily probiotic supplement from 36-38 weeks pregnant, and during the first three to six months of breastfeeding, reduced the risk of a child developing eczema by 22 per cent. The researchers, who published their meta-analysis in the journal PLOS Medicine , found no evidence that avoiding potentially allergenic foods such as nuts, dairy and eggs during pregnancy made a difference to a child’s allergy or eczema risk. Dr Robert Boyle, lead author of the research from the Department of Medicine at Imperial College London, explained: “Food allergies and eczema in children are a growing problem across the world. Although there has been a suggestion that wha...

READ MORE Economists fear trade sanctions could prompt retaliation from China, and even tip the world’s two largest economies into a trade war that would harm businesses and consumers in the United States and abroad. “Certainly, the United States has gotten China’s attention with these threats,” said Susan Shirk, a former diplomat and the chairwoman of the 21st Century China Center at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego. “The question is, what are we going to do with that attention?” Ms. Shirk said the Trump administration seemed to have little interest in negotiating an outcome that would benefit both sides. If the United States chooses to take a more punitive approach, “then I think we are at the brink of heading for a more Cold War-type relationship,” she added. Mr. Liu has been dispatched to Washington to evaluate the likelihood of such a clash, as well as to try to defuse tensions. He pl...

READ MORE While they stopped short of directly criticizing automakers, which the parts suppliers rely upon for business, they came down clearly on the side of stringent emissions rules. Tailpipe standards should “continue to make progress on reducing emissions and oil consumption while saving consumers money at the gas pump,” the groups said. At stake is a measure that the Obama administration estimated would eliminate as much as six billion metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions and save consumers more than $1 trillion at the pump over the lifetime of the cars affected. Together, the nation’s vehicles now regularly emit more earth-warming gases than its power plants. California, also a party to the talks over the Obama-era emissions rules, has been the most strident defender of stricter standards, drawing on its unique authority under the Clean Air Act to write air pollution rules that go further than those set by Washington. The debate puts carmakers and their pa...

READ MORE (Reuters) – British long jumper Greg Rutherford has pulled out of this week’s world indoor championships in Birmingham, British Athletics said on Wednesday. Rutherford, a gold medalist at the 2012 London Olympics, won the British indoor title in Birmingham last week and also competed at the Indoor Grand Prix in Glasgow on Sunday. As he continues his comeback from ankle and groin surgery, Rutherford has decided to miss the global event to regain full fitness ahead of the European Championships in Berlin in August. “My performance from the British championships to the Indoor Grand Prix in Glasgow at the weekend showed improvement but it was still not at the level I demand of myself,” the 31-year-old said in a statement. ”It has not been an easy decision but I have therefore chosen to withdraw from the world indoor championships. “I am committed to becoming the first long jumper to win three European titles in a row and will be training hard ov...

READ MORE (Reuters) – Hosts the Netherlands enjoyed a stunning opening night at the UCI world track championships with two gold medals including beating Jason Kenny’s British trio in the team sprint on Wednesday. Six-times Olympic champion Kenny was making his international return after taking a break from the sport following the 2016 Rio Games but could not mark it with another gold. The flying Dutch trio of Nils van ’t Hoenderdaal, Harrie Lavreysen and Jeffrey Hoogland won the final by half a second from Britain with France beating Russia for the bronze medal. Earlier in Apeldoorn velodrome, 35-year-old Kirsten Wild won the women’s 10km scratch race ahead of Belgium’s Jolien D‘Hoore to take her haul of world championship medals to seven. Denmark’s Amelie Dideriksen was third. Wild chased down an early attack by Ireland’s Lydia Gurley and went solo to the line. ”It’s really, really nice to win, for my own people, it’s am...

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READ MORE Bitcoin miners compete for the coins by submitting answers to difficult math problems. Instead of solving the problems, miners use computers to submit a flood of guesses. This can be lucrative: Each Bitcoin is currently valued at about $10,550. Believers insist it is a worthwhile endeavor. They describe Bitcoin as a superior currency that will eventually come into wide use, and they predict even broader applications for blockchains , the digital bookkeeping method used to record ownership of Bitcoins and to verify transactions. Currently, the average price of one Bitcoin is about $, according to Blockchain.info, a news and data site. <!– On , the price of one Bitcoin was about $. –> But Bitcoin remains so hard to use that a major Bitcoin conference in January had to stop accepting Bitcoin . It is, in practice, a speculative investment, like gold. And Tyler Cowen, an economist at George Mason University, said mining gold was a better use of resource...

READ MORE (Reuters) – Several top U.S. steel and aluminum executives have been invited to the White House on Thursday for what could be a major trade announcement, according to two people familiar with the meeting. U.S. President Donald Trump has vowed to take steps to crack down on imports of steel and aluminum and has been considering imposing hefty tariffs on imports of the metals from China and other countries. The White House declined to comment. The possible announcement comes as top aides to Trump are due to meet Thursday with a senior envoy of Chinese President Xi Jinping at the White House. Chinese economic adviser Liu He and his delegation will meet with U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and White House economic adviser Gary Cohn. The U.S. Commerce Department on Feb. 16 recommended that Trump impose stiff curbs on steel imports from China and other countries and offered the president several options ranging from global an...

READ MORE (Reuters) – Six years ago, billionaire investor William Ackman wagered $1 billion that Herbalife’s stock price would tumble to zero after publicly calling the nutrition company a fraud in a three-hour presentation before investors, analysts and the media. On Wednesday there was little fanfare when the hedge fund manager let slip to a cable news reporter that his Pershing Square Capital Management was no longer betting against Herbalife. Now, Ackman is building a position in aircraft parts maker United Technologies Corp, whose shares rose as much as 3.4 percent to $138.49. Rather than fall, Herbalife stock has risen since Ackman began shorting it. Pershing Square’s total loss was unknown. The stock on Wednesday traded as high as $95.88 a share, up from about $45 in 2012 when Ackman began his campaign. The exit from Herbalife and the new position in United Technologies, first reported by CNBC, were confirmed by a person familiar with the situation. Pershing Squ...

READ MORE (CNN) Russian President Vladimir Putin is blaming “extremist forces” for the failure of a daily five-hour “humanitarian pause” he’d ordered for the Syrian rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta earlier this week. ‘);$vidEndSlate.removeClass(‘video__end-slate–inactive’).addClass(‘video__end-slate–active’);}};CNN.autoPlayVideoExist = (CNN.autoPlayVideoExist === true) ? true : false;var configObj = thumb: ‘none’,video: ‘tv/2018/02/22/news-stream-intv-stout-jakob-kern-wfp-syria-intl.cnn’,width: ‘100%’,height: ‘100%’,section: ‘domestic’,profile: ‘expansion’,network: ‘cnn’,markupId: ‘body-text_21’,adsection: ‘const-article-inpage’,frameWidth: ‘100%’,frameHeight: ‘100%’,posterImageOverride: “mini”:“width”:220,”type”:”jpg”,”uri...