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TORONTO — Via Rail said early Thursday that all available $150 youth passes for unlimited travel across Canada in July had been sold out after the sales were derailed on Wednesday due to high demand on its website.

Seven stories in the news for Thursday, March 30: ——— CANNABIS PRODUCERS PEN LETTER TO OTTAWA Several licensed marijuana producers have written a letter urging the federal government to allow them to brand their products and provide medical cannabis

VANCOUVER — Consumers can trust what varieties of wine taste like regardless of the store they buy it from, and they could soon have similar expectations for strains of marijuana, say researchers at the University of British Columbia. Prof.

CALGARY — Signs of the Canadian oil and gas industry's recovery from a punishing two-year downturn are emerging in unlikely places, including fine grains of sand.

TORONTO — Several licensed marijuana producers have penned a letter to Ottawa, urging the federal government to allow them to brand their products and provide medical cannabis on a tax-free basis.

TORONTO — P.J. Tucker could barely be heard in the Raptors' already quiet locker-room. He stood by his stall, his voice almost a whisper, as he described Toronto's defensive collapse against the sharpshooting Charlotte Hornets.

LOS ANGELES — A massive archive containing papers, drawings and models of work by Canadian-born, world-renowned architect Frank Gehry is getting a home in his adopted hometown.

OTTAWA — The Public Health Agency of Canada says it's investigating an outbreak of E. coli related to a batch of Robin Hood all-purpose flour that's now the subject of a recall. In a statement, the agency says there have been 25 cases of E.

ST. ALBERT, Alta. — Alberta Fish and Wildlife officers are being criticized for killing a cow moose in a city north of Edmonton. The cow moose and her two calves were in a park near a busy intersection in St.

VICTORIA — British Columbia's softwood trade envoy says there's a slight opportunity to quickly negotiate a new lumber agreement between Canada and the United States, but if a deal can't be reached by the summer or fall it could mean a lengthy fight.