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1 hr ago | Canadian Online Health News

Number of doctors in Canada rises, physician-to-population ratio improves

The number of doctors in Canada has risen over the last five years, and the rate of increase is greater than the rate of population growth, says a new report that was greeted Thursday with cautious optimism.

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Related Topix: Canada, World News, Family Practice, Medicine,

Thu Nov 26, 2009

National Post

Tamil Tiger supporter deported after speaking at rally

Canadian immigration officials arrested an Indian man in Toronto on Thursday after he gave a fiery speech at an event where the flag of the outlawed Tamil Tigers rebels was flown.

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Related Topix: Canada, World News, Sri Lanka, Asia, Terrorism,

Coast Reporter

Short list announced for Canada's richest non-fiction literary prize

A father's struggle to come to terms with his son's disability and a biography of media baron William Randolph Hearst are among the nominees for Canada's richest non-fiction literary prize.

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Related Topix: Canada, World News, Classical, J.S. Bach,

CTV.ca

Consumers less confident about jobs, finance: survey

Home : Canada : Consumers less confident about jobs, finance: survey Consumers less confident about jobs, finance: survey Date: Thursday Nov.

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Related Topix: Canada, World News, Travel, Canada Travel

The Globe and Mail

PM heads for Copenhagen after all

Harper heads for Copenhagen after all Prime Minister Stephen Harper leaves Ottawa on Thursday, November 26, 2009, for Port of Spain to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.

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Related Topix: Stephen Harper, Canada, World News, Trinidad and Tobago, Central America, Activism

www.waterkeeper.ca | North America

Asian carp get past barrier, threatening USA Canada Great Lakes Lake Ontario Waterkeeper

Will Humans be Added to the Endangered Species at Risk List next ?

They haven't been spotted yet, but environmental DNA tests show that Asian carp have breached an electric barrier designed to keep them out of the Great Lakes.

Scientists recently collected 32 DNA samples indicating the presence of Asian carp between the barrier and Lake Michigan in waterways south of Chicago, said Major-General John Peabody of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Asian carp DNA was found within 12.8 kilometres of Lake Michigan and only 1.5 kilometres south of a navigational lock that is the only remaining obstacle between the carp and the Great Lakes...

http://www.waterkeeper.ca/2009/11/24/endangered-species-act-2007-to-prescribe-the-habitat-for-nine-species-at-risk/

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Madison Publishing

Class-action suits filed across Canada against B.C.-based crib manufacturer

Class-action lawsuits have been filed across Canada on behalf of consumers who bought drop-side cribs now subject to a massive North American recall.

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Related Topix: Canada, World News, Product Recalls

C-Health

PHAC confirms 24 cases of anaphylaxis across Canada after H1N1 flu shots

There have been 24 confirmed cases of a type of severe allergic reaction called anaphylaxis in Canadians who have received an H1N1 flu shot, including one person who died after getting vaccinated, the head of the Public Health Agency of Canada said Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Canada, World News, Entomology, Science, Epidemic, Natural Disasters

Wed Nov 25, 2009

Guardian Unlimited

Mexico border city eyes anonymous crime tip system - AP

A A A' Residents in the violent Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez will soon be able to report crime through an anonymous international tip line, Mayor Jose Reyes said Wednesday.

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Related Topix: World News, Mexico, Drugs, El Paso Metro, El Paso, TX

CBC

Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout freed

Canadian freelance journalist Amanda Lindhout, seen reporting in Iraq, was kidnapped in August 2008 in Somalia.

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Related Topix: Canada, World News, Somalia, Africa,

Calgary Sun

Home ownership costs rising, survey says as New Immigrant Policies don't pay for Hospitals Either

The cost of owning your own home has risen for the first time since the spring of 2008, with housing becoming less affordable in nearly all Canadian provinces, a new report found.

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Related Topix: Canada, World News, Home, Mortgage

The Toronto Star

Rush, Stompin' Tom among SOCAN Award winners

Tom Cochrane, Rush, Stompin' Tom Connors and Kardinal Offishall were among those honoured by the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada at its 20th annual awards gala on Monday night.

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Related Topix: Stompin' Tom, Folk, Tom Cochrane, Pop/Rock, Canada, World News, Kardinal Offishall, Hip-Hop, Country, Stompin' Tom Connors, The Arrows

The Globe and Mail

Driving & Living standards sink, as a report says what the People already know in North America

Julian Beltrame Ottawa - Published on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009 10:20AM EST Last updated on Tuesday, Nov.

Don't Worry was the Word in Brampton Yesterday as Driving standards are to Sink too as the Choke Point @ Hwy 401 & Hwy 407 @ Maple Lodge Farms on Winston Churchill @ Steeles Ave will be in Concert with the Halton Region Milton Mid Pen Highway ending at 401 for Caledon & Peel Region Too ...

http://www.topix.com/forum/ca/halton-hills-on-georgetown/THUTOJF6PUKC59MFR

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Related Topix: Canada, World News,

Tue Nov 24, 2009

Ottawa Citizen

NDP, Liberals, Bloc candidates practised in-and-out transactions: Tory lawyers

Opposition party candidates practised "in-and-out" transactions during the 2006 election campaign similar to those at the centre of a Conservative party legal action against Elections Canada, the Tories' lawyers argued in court Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Canada, World News

Free Press

Canadian airports installing improved X-ray scanners to screen carry-on bags

Ottawa is spending $27 million on advanced new X-ray equipment to scan carry-on bags at Canada's major airports.

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CANOE

Afghan prisoner transfers halted over safety concerns

An Afghan agency, at one time entrusted to monitor Canadian-captured insurgents in Kandahar, says it has documented nearly 400 cases of torture across the war-ravaged country.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, Canada, Prison

www.thestar.com | North America

Where is Canada's Minister of Natural Resources as a Frightened deer cornered in downtown GTA core

Ontario GreenBelt : Wildlife Corridors Seem to be Forgotten in the Growing Toronto Area

http://www.topix.com/forum/ca/milton-on/THK1R7RUUJKEBJMG9

Probably not the 1st deer that wandered into Toronto's downtown core Tuesday morning. The animal was seen near the busy intersection of University Ave.

as York Region Destruction of the Dunlap Observatory's wildlife habitat & cultural heritage landscape begins,

http://www.heritagecanada.org/eng/TopTenBackgrounder200%20E.pdf

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Omaha World-Herald

US woman killed by gunshot in Mexican border city

A U.S. consular official said Monday that an American woman has died of a gunshot wound she reportedly suffered in the Mexican border city of Matamoros.

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Related Topix: World News, Mexico, Brownsville Metro, Brownsville, TX

Mon Nov 23, 2009

The Chronicle-Journal

Quebec Premier Jean Charest promises to cut greenhouse gas emissions

Quebec Premier Jean Charest is introduced to an international relations group Monday, November 23, 2009 in Montreal before his speech about his upcoming trip to the environmental summit in Copenhagen.

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Related Topix: Canada, World News

Cape Breton Post

Family of dead sealers launch $2.7 million suit against Canadian Coast Guard

Relatives of four sealers killed when their boat capsized during a coast guard towing operation have filed a $2.7 million lawsuit.

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Related Topix: Boat Disaster, Canada, World News

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