Manitoba smokers will get government help in their effort to quit. The province is doing so by providing free nicotine replacement therapy products to eligible smokers. Healthy Living and Seniors Minister Deanne Crothers says up to 6,000 eligible Manitobans will be able to join the nicotine replacement therapy program (NRT), and receive up to eight weeks of NRT each year. …

Health Canada is proposing regulatory changes that would fast-track making the anti-opioid drug Naloxone more widely available to counter an increase in opioid overdoses in Canada. The department is putting an amendment forward to the prescription drug list that would allow for non-prescription use of Naloxone for emergencies outside of a hospital setting. Following a review of its prescription status, …

Canadian Dollar Forecast To Fall To 59 Cents U.S. As Economic Clouds Darken. Macquarie Group analyst David Doyle is predicting the loonie will fall to 59 cents U.S. by the end of this year, due to the ongoing commodity price slump, weak manufacturing and a heavily indebted Canadian consumer. On Tuesday, Doyle declared the lowering Canadian dollar value forecast to …

Tamara Fields sues Twitter over murder of husband Lloyd ‘Carl’ Fields by IS operative. Last November, a former police captain in Jordan burst into a training center and murdered unarmed people, including U.S. contractor Carl Fields, Jr. The terrorist group ISIS took credit for the atrocity and promoted it on social media.

US secretary of transportation Anthony Foxx unveiled a six-month initiative to prepare for an era of self-driving cars, at a press conference at the Detroit auto show today (Jan. 14). He also announced a new $3.9 billion initiative from the Obama administration’s 2016 budget to encourage self-driving car programs over the next decade. Foxx aims to set policies for self-driving …

Scores of patients were needlessly infected with potentially deadly bacteria after medical scope procedures because of repeated failures by the device manufacturers, regulators and hospitals to report outbreaks, according to a U.S. Senate investigation released Wednesday. The report is the result of a yearlong investigation, initiated by Murray in January 2015, into the cause of and response to outbreaks of …

Powerball 2016 has at least three winners in $1.6 billion jackpot. Winning numbers are:8-27-34-4-19 and the Powerball is 10 The Powerball jackpot has rolled over 19 times since October. Lottery officials said 85.8 percent of possible number combinations had been selected by midday, increasing the chances that someone would win the world’s largest lottery jackpot. But the odds of winning …

René Angélil, best-known for managing the career of his wife Céline Dion, has died after a lengthy battle with cancer. His death at age 73 was confirmed by his publicist and his wife. “Rene Angelil, 73, passed away this morning at his home in Las Vegas after a long and courageous battle against cancer,” his representative says in a statement. …

Pocket Mortys, The Rick And Morty Pokemon-Like, Gets An Early Release. The studio announced the early release of the game on its Twitter account after polling followers about whether or not to change its prior distribution plans.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin announced on Wednesday that his country has developed a vaccine for the deadly Ebola virus. Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets said the vaccine had been successfully tested on people. “We have good news. We have registered a medicine for the Ebola fever, which after the relevant tests, has proven to have a high effectiveness, higher than …

Bernie Sanders May Take Iowa, Polls Show Him Tied With Hillary Clinton. According to a survey of likely caucus-goers by Quinnipiac University, 49% back Sanders, 44% are in favor of Clinton and 4% back former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley. This is the end of a months-long lead for Clinton in Iowa, the first state in the nominating process for the …