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Guelph police say they’ve arrested a 61-year-old woman who allegedly injured a 71-year-old woman in a snow-shovelling fight. They say the incident occurred Tuesday when two woman were shovelling snow from their cars in the parking lot of an apartment complex in Guelph, Ont. Police allege the 61-year-old woman became upset about where the 71-year-old woman was dumping snow. Guelph police say a fight ensued and the 71-year-old woman received a cut to her cheek and bruising to her wrists. They say the woman did not need medical attention. Police have charged the 61-year-old woman with assault.

A University of Calgary grad student says a “goose-neck” shovel is the best way to deal with snow. "Bending isn't what's causing lower back pain. It's not that you bend less, there has to be a load that is causing the pain. We went one step further to show that because of that lower flexion, there is that reduced load as well.” American studies have shown roughly 12,000 people are treated in emergency rooms each year for snow-shovelling injuries, and the most common injury is to the lower-back. "It was a very relevant topic to Canadians, so I thought it...

A dispute over snow-clearing reached a tragic end when a man beat his neighbour to death with a snow shovel in North Rhine-Westphalia, police said Tuesday. In the Oberbergischer district of the state, a man named by daily Bild as Abdulbah I., 45, repeatedly hit his neighbour, 49-year-old Wolfgang K., with the shovel on Monday, according to police and the state prosecutor in Cologne. Bild reported that the two men had repeatedly argued in recent days over whose responsibility it was to clear the snow on the common entrance to their properties. They were both shovelling snow yesterday afternoon when...