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Meet the new owners of Schriemers Market Centre: Matt Schriemer, left, and his dad Harry Schriemer, right.

Schriemers Market Centre: A legacy of horticulture

Colleen Zacharias 7 minute read 2:00 AM CDT

Schriemers Market Centre on McGregor Farm Road is under new ownership. The first thing that new co-owner Matt Schriemer wanted me to know on my recent visit was that his dad, Harry Schriemer, is back.

Harry Schriemer’s roots are so deep in the horticulture profession that it would be unthinkable to imagine that he would not be involved in the local nursery and garden centre industry in one way or another. The same goes for Matt. Growing and selling plants is in their genes. Both grew up in the family greenhouse business, learning the trade from their fathers. From a young age Harry worked alongside his father, Klaas Schriemer, who learned from his father and grandfather in Holland before moving to Manitoba and opening the first Schriemer’s garden centre in the mid-1950s.

In 2012, Harry and his cousin Scott Schriemer, opened Schriemers Market Centre on McGregor Farm Road, replacing the family-owned garden centre at 1505 Molson St. Harry stepped away from the business for a few years but never fully retired. When Matt opened a new greenhouse on St. Anne’s Road about 10 years ago, later selling it to become the new owner of A. Paterson Bedding Plants in Headingley, Harry was at his side, helping his son in the production areas and doing what he loves most — growing plants.

Now, Harry and Matt are the new owners of Schriemers Market Centre. What’s their vision for the future and what awaits you when you visit Schriemers Market Centre this spring?

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Leading radiologist provided ‘ray of light’ at dark time for local performance groups along with decades of support

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Leading radiologist provided ‘ray of light’ at dark time for local performance groups along with decades of support

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It was a few months into his overseas tour when a 20-year-old Canadian air force navigator named Douglas MacEwan left the theatre of war behind in order to experience theatre itself.

When he enlisted in 1943, MacEwan was posted to a flying patrol squadron under Coastal Command, responsible for patrolling the Bay of Biscay and the inner British coasts, scanning to detect any threats in Allied waters during the latter days of the Battle of the Atlantic.

“It was our job to catch (the U-boats) before they preyed on any of these vessels and prevented their supplies from reaching England,” he later recalled.

But in the summer of 1944, MacEwan — born in Ottawa and raised first in Butte, Mont., and later Montreal — was granted a brief reprieve from flotational threats, sent for a session of land-based flight training in Cambridge, about 100 kilometres north of London’s New Theatre. That summer, the Old Vic repertory company was putting on Ibsen’s Peer Gynt and Shakespeare’s Richard III, with the cast led by an actor named Laurence Olivier.

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Douglas MacEwan walks in his Tuxedo neighbourhood with arts directors and friends on Sept. 15, 2020, as part of his daily, kilometre-long walk fundraising campaign as he neared his 96th birthday.

Tornadoes collapse buildings and level homes in Nebraska and Iowa

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Tornadoes collapse buildings and level homes in Nebraska and Iowa

Josh Funk, Margery A. Beck And Heather Hollingsworth, The Associated Press 6 minute read Yesterday at 11:33 PM CDT

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Tornadoes wreaked havoc Friday in the Midwest, causing a building to collapse with dozens of people inside and destroying and damaging hundreds of homes, many around Omaha, Nebraska.

As of Friday night, there were several reports of injuries but no immediate deaths reported. Tornado warnings continued to be issued into the night in Iowa.

Three people were hurt in Nebraska’s Lancaster County when a tornado hit an industrial building, causing it to collapse with 70 people inside. Several were trapped, but everyone was evacuated and the injuries were not life-threatening, authorities said.

One of the most destructive tornadoes moved for miles Friday through mostly rural farmland before chewing up homes and other structures in the suburbs of Omaha, a city of 485,000 people with a metropolitan area population of about 1 million.

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Families sift through the destruction from a tornado, Friday, April 26, 2024, near Omaha, Neb. (Nikos Frazier/Omaha World-Herald via AP)

15-year hunting ban and $10K penalty for man who baited, killed B.C. grizzly

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15-year hunting ban and $10K penalty for man who baited, killed B.C. grizzly

The Canadian Press 2 minute read Yesterday at 6:23 PM CDT

ELKFORD - The B.C. Conservation Officer Service says a man has been fined $10,000 and banned from hunting for 15 years for illegally killing a grizzly bear near Elkford, B.C.

The service says in a social media post that a decision from a provincial court judge in Fernie, B.C., this week also ordered the man's rifle be forfeited.

It says officers launched an investigation in the spring of 2020 after receiving a tip from the public about a man hunting bears using bait near the community of Elkford.

The service says the investigation took a year, but in 2021 conservation officers apprehended the man shooting a decoy black bear at the site where bait had been placed.

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This Aug. 12, 2009 photo shows a grizzly bear traveling across the Porcupine River Tundra in the Yukon Territories, Canada. The B.C. Conservation Officer Service says a man has been fined $10,000 and banned from hunting for 15 years for illegally killing a grizzly near Elkford, B.C. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Rick Bowmer

Kansas won’t have legal medical pot or expand Medicaid for at least another year

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Kansas won’t have legal medical pot or expand Medicaid for at least another year

John Hanna And Sean Murphy, The Associated Press 5 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 7:18 PM CDT

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas will remain among the handful of states that haven't legalized the medical use of marijuana or expanded their Medicaid programs for at least another year.

Republican state senators on Friday blocked efforts to force debates on both issues before the GOP-controlled Legislature's scheduled adjournment for the year Tuesday. Supporters of each measure fell short of the 24 of 40 votes required to pull a bill on each subject out of committee.

Backers of both proposals argue that they have popular support yet have been thwarted going on a decade in each case. Kansas doesn't allow voters to put proposed laws on the ballot statewide, a path that has led to approval for each measure in other states.

All but 12 states have legalized medical marijuana, and all but 10 have expanded Medicaid in line with the 2010 federal Affordable Care Act and its promise to cover almost all of the cost. Besides Kansas, only Georgia, Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin and Wyoming have done neither, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

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Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly speaks during a roundtable discussion in favor of expanding the state's Medicaid program, Tuesday, April 16, 2024, at the Shawnee County jail in Topeka, Kan. The Democratic governor supports expanding Medicaid, but Republicans have blocked an attempt in the Senate to force a debate on it. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

B.C. premier says public use rules should have been in place before decriminalization

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B.C. premier says public use rules should have been in place before decriminalization

The Canadian Press 6 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 7:53 PM CDT

VANCOUVER - British Columbia is preparing to ban most public drug use, a change to parts of its decriminalization pilot project that the premier says should have been in place all along.

The province has made an "urgent" request to Health Canada to make amendments to B.C.'s exemption under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act to give police the power to step in when they see illicit drug use in public spaces, including inside hospitals, on transit and in parks.

Premier David Eby said during a news conference Friday that police need tools to address extraordinary circumstances where people are compromising public safety through their drug use.

He said when decriminalization was first introduced, the focus was on removing the stigma and reducing the reluctance of people to reach out for help.

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The British Columbia government is asking Health Canada to

Biden officials indefinitely postpone ban on menthol cigarettes amid election-year pushback

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Biden officials indefinitely postpone ban on menthol cigarettes amid election-year pushback

Matthew Perrone And Zeke Miller, The Associated Press 4 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 9:05 PM CDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration is indefinitely delaying a long-awaited menthol cigarette ban, a decision that infuriated anti-smoking advocates but could avoid a political backlash from Black voters in November.

In a statement Friday, Biden’s top health official gave no timeline for issuing the rule, saying only that the administration would take more time to consider feedback, including from civil rights groups.

“It’s clear that there are still more conversations to have, and that will take significantly more time,” Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a statement.

The White House has held dozens of meetings in recent months with groups opposing the ban, including civil rights organizers, law enforcement officials and small business owners. Most of groups have financial ties to tobacco companies.

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FILE - Menthol cigarettes and other tobacco products are displayed at a store in San Francisco on May 17, 2018. For the second time in recent months, President Joe Biden's administration has delayed a plan to ban menthol cigarettes, a decision that is certain to infuriate anti-smoking advocates but could avoid angering Black voters ahead of November elections. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

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Google plans to invest $2 billion to build data center in northeast Indiana, officials say

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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Google plans to invest $2 billion to build a data center in northeastern Indiana that will help power its artificial intelligence technology and cloud business, company and state officials said Friday.

The data center planned for Fort Wayne was announced in January. But Google disclosed the project's cost Friday and said it is expected to create up to new 200 jobs, including data center technicians and support services, The Journal Gazette reported.

The data center in the city about 120 miles (190 kilometers) northeast of Indianapolis will help power Google's “AI innovations and growing Google Cloud business for customers across the world,” Gov. Eric Holcomb’s office said in a news release.

Google said the new data center will join a network of Google-owned-and-operated data centers across the globe that “keep the internet humming" and power digital services such as Google Cloud, Gmail, Search and Maps.

Bin there, dumped that: Trash cans to be reinstalled along Montreal’s Lachine Canal

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Bin there, dumped that: Trash cans to be reinstalled along Montreal’s Lachine Canal

The Canadian Press 2 minute read Yesterday at 1:20 PM CDT

MONTREAL - Parks Canada will reinstall around 30 garbage bins along Montreal's Lachine Canal after some visitors expressed frustration at their sudden disappearance earlier this month.

The federal agency says the measure was a pilot project to encourage visitors to take responsibility for waste destined for landfills.

Parks Canada says in a statement today that it deemed the canal's cleanliness satisfactory without the bins but decided to replace them at the end of the pilot after public opposition.

Some visitors to the canal last week complained that the lack of easily accessible places to bring their waste made them less likely to frequent the national historic site, a popular destination for pedestrians, cyclists and picnickers.

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Parks Canada has reinstalled around 30 garbage bins along Montreal's Lachine Canal after some visitors and nearby residents expressed frustration at the measure. A bag of dog poop hangs in a tree along the boardwalk of Montreal's Lachine Canal in Montreal, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi

Animal groups are urging tourists not to visit Wyoming after a man hit a wolf then took it to a bar

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Animal groups are urging tourists not to visit Wyoming after a man hit a wolf then took it to a bar

Mead Gruver, The Associated Press 6 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 2:34 PM CDT

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — As Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming opens for the busy summer season, wildlife advocates are leading a call for a boycott of the conservative ranching state over laws that give people wide leeway to kill gray wolves with little oversight.

The social media accounts of Wyoming's tourism agency are being flooded with comments urging people to steer clear of the Cowboy State amid accusations that a man struck a wolf with a snowmobile, taped its mouth shut and showed off the injured animal at a Sublette County bar before killing it.

While critics contend that Wyoming has enabled such animal cruelty, a leader of the state’s stock growers association said it's an isolated incident and unrelated to the state's wolf management laws. The laws that have been in place for more than a decade are designed to prevent the predators from proliferating out of the mountainous Yellowstone region and into other areas where ranchers run cattle and sheep.

"This was an abusive action. None of us condone it. It never should never have been done,” said Jim Magagna, executive vice president of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association and a Sublette County rancher who has lost sheep to wolves. “It’s gotten a lot of media attention but it’s not exemplary of how we manage wolves to deal with livestock issues or anything.”

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FILE - In this April 15, 2008, file photo, a bison makes its way across the historic gate to Yellowstone National Park at Gardiner, Mont. As Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming opens for the busy summer season, wildlife advocates are leading a call for a boycott of the conservative ranching state over laws that give people wide leeway to kill gray wolves with little oversight. (James Woodcock/The Billings Gazette via AP, File)

T. Rex an intelligent tool-user and culture-builder? Not so fast, says new research

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T. Rex an intelligent tool-user and culture-builder? Not so fast, says new research

Bob Weber, The Canadian Press 4 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 3:24 PM CDT

EDMONTON - Science recently proposed a truly horrifying thought — that T. Rex, perhaps the most fearsome predator to walk the earth, was also smart enough to use tools, hunt in packs and pass down knowledge.

Yikes.

But a new paper throws cold water on those dinosaur fever dreams.

"They were very bold claims that needed a second look," said Cristian Gutierrez, a University of Alberta neuroscientist and co-author of a paper in The Anatomical Record that takes a skeptical view of the intelligent Tyrannosaurus theory.

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A representation of a Tyrannosaurus Rex stands in the

A ban in Kansas on gender-affirming care also would bar advocacy for kids’ social transitions

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A ban in Kansas on gender-affirming care also would bar advocacy for kids’ social transitions

John Hanna, The Associated Press 6 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 1:36 PM CDT

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A proposed ban in Kansas on gender-affirming care for minors also would bar state employees from promoting it — or even children's social transitioning.

Teachers and social workers who support LGBTQ+ rights worry that they could be disciplined or fired for helping kids who are exploring their gender identities.

Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed the proposed ban, and top Republicans anticipated Friday that the GOP-controlled Legislature will attempt to override her action before lawmakers adjourn for the year Tuesday. Their bill appeared to have the two-thirds majorities needed in both chambers to override a veto when it passed last month, but that could depend on all Republicans being present and none of them switching.

Supporters of the bill said the provision now being singled out for criticism is designed to ensure that the banned care — puberty blockers, hormone treatments and surgery — isn't still promoted with tax dollars or other state resources.

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Small flags promoting transgender rights sit on the Kansas House chamber desks of, state Rep. Jarrod Ousley, D-Merriam, left, and Allison Hougland, D-Olathe, right, following the House's session, Wednesday, March 27, 2024, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Both lawmakers oppose a proposed ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors. (AP Photo/John Hanna)

At least 70 people killed by flooding in Kenya as more rain is expected through the weekend

Evelyne Musambi, The Associated Press 2 minute read Yesterday at 12:21 PM CDT

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Flooding and heavy rains in Kenya have killed at least 70 people since mid-March, a government spokesperson said Friday, twice as many as were reported earlier this week.

The East African country has seen weeks of heavy rains and severe flooding in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, as well as in the country's western and central regions.

Kenya's government spokesperson Isaac Mwaura on Friday refuted claims that hundreds of people have died in the ongoing flooding and said the official tally now stands at 70.

Five bodies were retrieved Friday from a river in Makueni county, east of the country, after a lorry they were traveling in was swept off a submerged bridge, local station Citizen TV reported. Another 11 were rescued.

Help is coming for a Jersey Shore town that’s losing the man-vs-nature battle on its eroded beaches

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Help is coming for a Jersey Shore town that’s losing the man-vs-nature battle on its eroded beaches

Wayne Parry, The Associated Press 4 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 1:37 PM CDT

NORTH WILDWOOD, N.J. (AP) — A long-running sandstorm at the Jersey Shore could soon come to an end as New Jersey will carry out an emergency beach replenishment project at one of the state's most badly eroded beaches.

North Wildwood and the state have been fighting in court for years over measures the town has taken on its own to try to hold off the encroaching seas while waiting — in vain — for the same sort of replenishment projects that virtually the entire rest of the Jersey Shore has received.

It could still be another two years before the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection begin pumping sand onto North Wildwood's critically eroded shores. In January, parts of the dunes reached only to the ankles of Mayor Patrick Rosenello.

But the mayor released a joint statement from the city and Gov. Phil Murphy late Thursday night saying both sides have agreed to an emergency project to pump sand ashore in the interim, to give North Wildwood protection from storm surges and flooding.

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FILE - This Jan. 22, 2024, photo shows a severely eroded section of sand dune in North Wildwood N.J. On April 25, 2024, North Wildwood and the state of New Jersey announced an agreement for an emergency beach replenishment project there to protect the city until a full-blown beach fill can be done by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that may still be two years away. Winter storms punched a hole through what is left of the city's eroded dune system, leaving it more vulnerable than ever to destructive flooding. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry, File)

Long flu season winds down in US

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Long flu season winds down in US

Mike Stobbe, The Associated Press 3 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 2:00 PM CDT

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. flu season appears to be over. It was long, but it wasn't unusually severe.

Last week, for the third straight week, medical visits for flu-like illnesses dipped below the threshold for what's counted as an active flu season, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday.

Other indicators, like hospitalizations and patient testing, also show low and declining activity. No state is reporting a high amount of flu activity. Only New England is seeing the kind of patient traffic associated with an active flu season right now, but even there flu impact is considered modest.

Since the beginning of October, there have been at least 34 million illnesses, 380,000 hospitalizations and 24,000 deaths from flu, according to CDC estimates. The agency said 148 children have died of flu.

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FILE - A sign for flu vaccination is displayed outside of a grocery store in Glenview, Ill., Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. On Friday, April 26, 2024, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said last week, for the third straight week, medical visits for flu-like illnesses dipped below the threshold for what's counted as an active flu season. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

What to know about Bell’s palsy, the facial paralysis affecting Joel Embiid

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What to know about Bell’s palsy, the facial paralysis affecting Joel Embiid

The Associated Press 3 minute read Yesterday at 10:33 AM CDT

Philadelphia 76ers All-Star center Joel Embiid has been diagnosed with Bell's palsy, a condition that can strike out of the blue and cause muscles on one side of a person's face to become weak or paralyzed, distorting expression.

Here’s what to know about the mostly temporary condition:

WHAT IS IT?

Bell’s palsy occurs when something inflames or injures a nerve that controls facial muscles. Symptoms come on rapidly over two to three days. They can include difficulty closing an eyelid, a drooping eye or mouth or paralysis of an entire half of the face.

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