The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has suspended the licence of an Edmonton business over non-compliance of meat inspection regulations.

The business, Aliya's Foods Ltd., took effect on Monday.

Aliya's Foods Ltd. is a ready-to-eat red meat and poultry establishment.

The agency says Aliya's Foods Ltd. has failed to document and address product cooling issues during pre-shipment review, and failed to address allergen control issues.

No product has been recalled, but the CFIA says it will take action if any potentially contaminated product be identified.

The federal agency says Aliya's Foods Ltd. will not be able to resume operations until the company has put in place corrective actions and those actions must be approved by the CFIA.

(The Canadian Press)

Police in Edmonton have withdrawn an Amber Alert for a nine-month-old baby girl they believed had been abducted by her mother.

They say the mother and child have been found and the baby is safe.

Police were concerned that the mother was planning to leave Canada with the baby and return to China.

They said the woman had a stroller, baby supplies and a large suitcase with her.

Officers responded to a report of an alleged abduction Monday night around 7:45 p.m.

(The Canadian Press

A Canadian-U.S. team of researchers has developed a new “sharp-shooter” drug they hope will be a breakthrough in treating several types of cancer.

The experimental drug is known for now as CFI-400945 and is a new class of cancer drug that targets a certain enzyme that gives rise to some malignancies.

Those tumours include breast, ovarian, colorectal, pancreatic and prostate cancers.

The researchers have applied to Health Canada and the U.S. FDA to begin testing the drug in patients.

Dr. Tak Mak of the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto and Dr. Dennis Slamon of the University of California, Los Angeles, led the teams that developed the drug.

The two world-renowned researchers have spent a decade developing the drug, funded solely by money raised through donations.

(The Canadian Press)

In the midst of a raging scandal over the abuse of taxpayers' money by senators, the Senate has hired two speakers to help denizens of the maligned upper chamber feel better about themselves.

All senators, their staff and Senate employees have been invited to attend talks by communications consultant Barry McLoughlin and motivational speaker Marc-Andre Morel.

According to an email sent out by the Senate clerk's office, the pair will talk about what it describes as “the enduring value of the Senate and help bring a little perspective to the current situation.”

The subject line of the email invitation tells recipients that “the Senate values you and the work you do - come find out why.”

The talks are scheduled for Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. (ET) - when the Senate is supposed to be sitting.

It's not immediately clear how much the Senate is paying for the speakers or whose idea it was to invite them.

(The Canadian Press)