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Canada has been pretty much on a roll the last few years. Why, the great white north has looked positively appealing when viewed from the American lens. But an ugly reality of life in Canada was illuminated today when the Supreme Court there upheld a ban on transporting any more than 12 pints of beer from one province. Twelve pints? Oh, Canada!
Every patient's health insurance plan varies, and the costs -- and so the copays -- of a prescription can soar overnight, so there's no way for doctors to know whether a prescription is right for a patient. Oh, sure, medically it's comparatively easy to know. But if a patient can't afford the cure, what's the point of the exercise?
At playoff time, we all fall down
The State of Hockey isn't playoff caliber this year, or just about any year previous. But the fans keep buying up all the tickets at the Xcel Center anyway.
Maybe, not quite, but NewsCut has been added to the MPR News Update podcast. It'll update every day around noon. It will also be available on Alexa as part of the Flash Briefing.
The era of $2 gasoline may be over -- again. The experts today predicted gasoline will shoot past $3 a gallon in the next few weeks in many states with the nationwide average of $2.80.
Alabama is sick of New York’s poop
Sometimes a news story just makes you go 'huh'. So it is with the story from Alabama, where a train full of feces from New Jersey and New York has been torturing a town for several months and the town is sick of it.