Oil and Markets Still Tumbling
Continued falling oil prices are dragging the global stock markets down with them.
North American markets slumped again yesterday and Asian markets all tumbled this morning, as the price of oil suffered its worst one-day drop in five months.
Benchmark U-S crude for February dropped $1.91 to $26.55 US a barrel in New York before that contract closed.
The March contract was trading electronically this morning at the $28 mark.
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Petition to Prevent Burying Nuclear Waste Near Great Lake
Opponents of a plan to bury waste from nuclear power plants a kilometre away from Lake Huron have submitted a petition with more than 92,000 signatures to Environment Minister Catherine McKenna.
Ontario Power Generation wants to bury low- and intermediate-level nuclear waste about 700 metres deep near Kincardine, Ontario.
The utility says the waste would be entombed in rock and pose no danger to the lake, but opponents say it's too risky.
A Canadian advisory panel endorsed the project last year -- but October's election of Prime Minister Trudeau prompted the decision to be delayed until March 1st.
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End of Vet Board President's Term
One of the veterinarians here in Dauphin has come to the end of her term as President for the Manitoba Veterinary Medical Association.
Roxane Neufeld has been on the MVMA council for three years. She's been president for the last year but her term is coming to an end.
She says her time on council has been lots of work but it's been worth it.
"It's been an eye-opening experience and it's certainly broadened my view of veterinary medicine."
On February 1, she will step down from being president, and then be named past president. With that, she will still be part of the MVMA council.
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Try, Try Again
This week is National Non-Smoking Week in Canada.
The theme for this year, according to the Canadian Council for Tobacco Control, is "quitting takes practice, practice often."
Executive Director Robert Walsh says the average person who tries to quit smoking tries five to seven times before they finally do.
"Look at it as something that you're going to have to practice, look at it as something that you're going to learn from as you do fail, but try to keep that mentality that this is worth it, this is one of those things that is really worth it to do."
Walsh says smoking rates across the country have been fairly stagnant in recent years, but the 2014 Canadian Community Health Survey, says smoking rates in Winnipeg are the lowest they've been in 10 years.
