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• Maclean's article calling Winnipeg 'most racist city' receives mixed reaction
• Icy conditions doubled EMS calls on Thursday
• Haggis a popular January dish in Calgary, says butcher
• 'We're going to kill' Iraq militants who attack Canadian troops: PM

Maclean's article calling Winnipeg 'most racist city' receives mixed reaction Posted: 22 Jan 2015 01:59 PM PST The City of Winnipeg had a bomb dropped on its reputation on Thursday when a national news magazine declared it the most racist city in Canada. "We have a lot of work to do as a community," an emotional Mayor Brian Bowman said at a press conference. The comments stem from a Maclean's cover story released on Thursday, which claimed that Winnipeg was Canada's most racist city. The Maclean's article searches for evidence to back up its thesis in the fallout from the death of Tina Fontaine and the attack on Rinelle Harper, two young aboriginal girls attacked in Winnipeg.

Icy conditions doubled EMS calls on Thursday Posted: 22 Jan 2015 08:13 PM PST Icy conditions made Wednesday a day busy for doctors, nurses and EMS workers in the city. "At around 3 o'clock, we had an actual doubling of calls that we normally would have in an hour," said Dale Weiss, the executive director of EMS for the Edmonton zone. In addition to the spike in calls, Weiss pointed out that ambulance drivers were also contending with the icy conditions, as were the paramedics themselves, which slowed service somewhat.

Haggis a popular January dish in Calgary, says butcher Posted: 22 Jan 2015 08:07 PM PST It's popular because Robbie Burns Day on Jan. 25 — a holiday celebrating the national poet's birthday — revolves around one of his best-known works, Address to a Haggis, penned in 1787. So what does today's haggis contain?

'We're going to kill' Iraq militants who attack Canadian troops: PM Posted: 22 Jan 2015 01:55 PM PST By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - Prime Minister Stephen Harper denied on Thursday that Canadian military advisers in Iraq would be dragged into combat against Islamic State militants despite a recent clash but said Canada's forces would kill anyone who attacked them. Asked whether he anticipated Canadian troops taking on more of a combat role, Harper replied: "No, I do not." He insisted the about 70 Canadian special forces personnel on the ground in Iraq are there to help local forces in their fight against the militants. "This is a robust mission ... if those guys fire at us we're going to fire back and we're going to kill them, just like our guys did, and we're very proud of the job they're doing in Iraq," he told reporters in St. Catharines, Ontario. Canada pledged in October to join the U.S.-led bombing campaign in Iraq for six months.

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