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How often you poop can affect your health well beyond the gut, study suggests The researchers found that constipation, for example, led to an overabundance of microbes in the gut that produced kidney-harming compounds.

The researchers found that constipation, for example, led to an overabundance of microbes in the gut that produced kidney-harming compounds.

Emergency room at Mission Memorial Hospital to close overnight The Mission Memorial Hospital emergency department will be temporarily closed due to “physician staffing challenges,” the health authority announced Sunday.

Emergency room at Mission Memorial Hospital to close overnight

Inuit not sure where they fit into Carney’s economic, defence agenda: ITK president OTTAWA - Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami president Natan Obed compares working with Prime Minister Mark Carney's government to being a contestant on the TV show "Dragons' Den."

6/6 As the Arctic becomes a geopolitical chessboard, the message is clear:

Canada needs to earn its place in the North.

Alessia Passafiume reports for The Canadian Press.

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5/6 Obed points to Greenland—where Inuit have robust infrastructure—as the benchmark.

His warning to Ottawa: You can't claim the North if you neglect the people living there.

"The cheapest way to ensure territorial sovereignty is really through the investment in our communities."

4/6 Ministers deny the "profit-only" approach.

Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty insists on "accountability" and "building capacity."

But with the Inuit Child First Initiative funding set to expire in March, Obed fears kids will be left without support before the spring budget.

3/6 The timing is critical.

With #Trump eyeing #Greenland and #Russia looming, #Arctic #Sovereignty is a top priority. Yet, Obed says Inuit leaders are being shut out of these high-level #Defence talks.

Meanwhile, goals like eliminating #Tuberculosis and ensuring child #HealthCare are stalling.

2/6 "The lens of any of our social policy is ... now being run through this idea of whether or not there are returns to the Canadian state."

Obed says the feds have stopped doing the work.

Instead, Indigenous groups must pitch economic benefits to justify basic social services.

1/6 🇨🇦 INUIT LEADER: CARNEY GOV'T LIKE "DRAGONS' DEN" 🇨🇦

ITK President Natan Obed says under Mark Carney, social policy is judged on "profitability."

Inuit must pitch "returns to the state" to get basic services.

CP reports.
#CdnPoli #Arctic #Inuit #IndigenousRights

Trump Using A ‘Softer Touch’ With ICE In Minnesota? Residents Say Don’t Be Fooled. Two weeks after Alex Pretti’s killing, federal agents have shown no signs of backing down. The resistance definitely hasn't.

NEW: The Trump admin certainly put on a show last week about changing tactics in Minnesota after ICE agents killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old VA nurse.

Trump even suggested it's time for "a softer touch."

Except residents say nothing has changed. At all. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...

Speed skating-Canadian Maltais credits winner Lollobrigida for pushing her to podium Canada's Valerie Maltais said being pushed by Italian Francesca Lollobrigida helped her stay focused as she skated to the podium in the women's 3,000 metres at the Milano Cortina Games on Saturday.

Speed skating-Canadian Maltais credits winner Lollobrigida for pushing her to podium reut.rs/4rCBeX1

It doesn’t get any more disgusting than this.

Quebec athletes to cheer for in the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics from Feb. 6 to 22 These are the Quebec athletes to cheer for in the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics, which runs from Feb. 6 to 22.

Canada has sent a team of 206 to Italy, nearly 50 of whom are Quebec athletes who thrive in the ice and snow. ⚜️🇨🇦

Quebec athletes to cheer for in the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics from Feb. 6 to 22

#TeamCanada

Immigrant whose skull was broken in eight places during ICE arrest says beating was unprovoked A Mexican immigrant whose skull was broken during his arrest by immigration officers last month in Minnesota says the beating was unprovoked.

ICE brought Alberto to the hospital with skull fractures & bleeding in his brain

They told staff he rammed his head into a brick wall

Healthcare workers didn’t believe them & found 8 skull fractures

Now Alberto confirms there was no wall

He was beaten with the metal rod they use to break windows

🇨🇦🇨🇦Bruce Fanjoy gets it and is the MP supporting this petition because “it is in Canada’s national interest for every federal party leader to hold top-secret security clearance”. I’ve signed it.

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Alberta's Smith owes answers before separation vote: former federal minister Dion EDMONTON — The man who helped write the rules on separation votes in Canada says if Alberta’s premier is going to take her province down that “worrying” path, she has a duty to spell out to everyone h...

8/8 As the petition gains traction, the question remains:

👉 Is Alberta sleepwalking toward a constitutional crisis? 👈

Dion warns that in politics, you must prepare for the worst.

www.rmoutlook.com/alberta-news...

7/8 The government defends the changes as a way to help Albertans be heard.

"Alberta’s government will not speculate as to what citizen initiative petitions will or will not be successful," said a spokesperson for the Justice Minister.

6/8 Separatists claim to have met with unnamed U.S. officials about immediate recognition of an independent Alberta.

Dion dismisses this, noting such recognition would break diplomatic norms. Rath admits no promises were made.

5/8 Jeff Rath, a key figure in the separatist group, says some UCP MLAs have allegedly signed the petition—though Smith denies knowledge of this.

Rath warns that if a referendum passes, Smith cannot ignore the result without facing a leadership crisis.

4/8 Smith maintains she supports a "sovereign Alberta within a united Canada."

But Dion calls it "historically unusual" to clear the path for dismemberment without a separatist government in power.

"It's pretty odd to go through this process without a majority of MLAs."

3/8 Smith’s government recently relaxed rules for citizen initiatives, lowering signature thresholds for petitions.

A "Stay Free Alberta" group is now gathering signatures for a separation vote, expecting to surpass the required 178,000 names by May.

2/8 Dion, who tabled the Clarity Act after the 1995 Quebec referendum, says Smith must clarify her threshold for a "clear majority" to leave Canada.

"She owes that to the people of Alberta and the whole people of Canada," Dion said, urging preparation for all outcomes.

1/8 🇨🇦 DION CALLS OUT SMITH ON SEPARATION 🇨🇦

The architect of Canada's Clarity Act says Premier #DanielleSmith is taking Alberta down a "worrying" path.

#StéphaneDion argues Smith owes Albertans clear answers on how a #Separation vote would be triggered—and what happens next.
#AbLeg #CdnPoli #AbPoli

“The U.S. Supreme Court said that you could detain people based on their race, their accent, or the language they spoke … There is nothing to preclude ICE from doing that while you’re standing in line getting ready to cast a ballot,” Stacey Abrams tells Anne Applebaum.
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Metry and her husband of 4 years go to DHS to get their I-130 in motion. "Good news" a DHS employee told them, the form to start her naturalization was approved.

DHS employee asks the husband to follow him through a secure door. When it locks behind him, ICE detains his wife to deport her.

Children trapped in Texas immigration facility recount nightmares, inedible food, no school A photo of Liam Conejo Ramos, a scared 5-year-old, drew attention to a detention center in Dilley, Texas. Advocates say his experience reflects what hundreds of children have endured out of public vie...

Maria is one of hundreds of children, who — like Liam Ramos — have been held at a Texas detention facility where parents say children languish as they’re served contaminated food, receive little education and struggle to obtain basic medical care.

Here's our attempt at telling their stories. 2/

Photo shows a young girl with her cat

This is Maria, a 6-year-old detained by ICE last year.

She began to unravel soon after arriving at a detention center in Texas, wetting the bed after years without accidents, crying through the night and begging to breastfeed again.

Most of all, she wanted to be reunited with her cat, Milo. 1/

Measles outbreak prompts health alert in World Cup host Jalisco, Mexico | CBC News Jalisco state in west-central Mexico is issuing a health alert and mandating the use of face masks in schools amid a measles outbreak in the state capital ahead of serving as a host city for upcoming ...

Masks in schools mandated as measles outbreak prompts health alert in World Cup host Jalisco, Mexico

Jalisco is the epicentre of Mexico's outbreak

www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

YouTube video by CTV News Crowd sings ‘O Canada’ at consulate flag raising ceremony in Greenland

#ForeignAffairs Minister #AnitaAnand and other officials raised the #Canadian flag at the opening of a new consulate in #Greenland as a crowd sings #OCanada behind them. They're joined France and several other #NATO nations opening consulates there. 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🇫🇷 #cdnpoli #worldpoli
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Canada’s new Greenland consulate officially opens with patriotic ceremony - National | Globalnews.ca Gov. Gen. Mary Simon and Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand were in Greenland's capital Nuuk for the ceremonial opening on Friday.

NUUK, GREENLAND: “Canada’s new Greenland consulate officially opens with patriotic ceremony” globalnews.ca/news/1165580... - Global News

#CDNPoli #Greenland #Nuuk

State election officials brace for possible Trump interference in midterm results Trump’s incursion into state election proceedings was on stark display at last week’s meeting of secretaries of state.

'Quite appalling': State election officials brace for possible Trump interference in midterm results.