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Ontario to shorten general surgery waits this article opens in a new window

CBC, Fri October 17, 2008, comments (0)
Ontario will spend $11.64 million this year to shorten wait times for general surgery, Health Minister David Caplan announced Friday.

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Hoteliers go green to save the planet

Calgary Herald, Sun September 28, 2008, comments (0)
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada - Hotels around the globe are competing for customers in a changing world that is demanding green.

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Canadian researchers discover ovulation gene this article opens in a new window

CBC, Fri July 18, 2008, comments (0)
Canadian and European researchers have discovered the gene that regulates ovulation.

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Canada to create giant new northern national park this article opens in a new window

ENN, Tue April 08, 2008, comments (0)
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will create a giant new national park covering some 1.9 million acres along one of the country's most spectacular northern rivers, Environment Minister John Baird said on Monday. The Naats'ihch'oh National Park Reserve will cover the watershed of the South Nahanni river in the Northwest Territories.

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Electronic handwashing tool could curb superbug spread this article opens in a new window

CBC, Mon March 03, 2008, comments (0)
Toronto researchers have devised an electronic system they believe could dramatically slash hospital-acquired infections by improving hand hygiene.

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Court strikes down regulation limiting growers of medical marijuana

CBC, Fri January 11, 2008, comments (0)
Canadians who are prescribed marijuana to treat their illnesses will no longer be forced to rely on the federal government as a supplier following a Federal Court ruling that struck down a key restriction in Ottawa's controversial medical marijuana program.

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Al Gore & IPCC Share Nobel Peace Prize For 2007

Scoop, Sat October 13, 2007, comments (0)
Oslo, Norway - The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.

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Canadian kids support bullied student.

The Chronicle Herald, Mon September 17, 2007, comments (0)
Cambridge, Ontario, Canada - Two students at Central Kings Rural High School fought back against bullying recently, unleashing a sea of pink after a new student was harassed and threatened when he showed up wearing a pink shirt.

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Little Britain man turning gravity into power; ‘You can get off the grid with one of these’

Lindsay Post, Sun September 09, 2007, comments (1)
Little Britain, Ontario, Canada - When he heard on television that gravity couldn't be used as a form of energy, Bob Kostoff set out to prove Discovery Channel wrong.

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“Momentum building” for new climate deal: U.N.

ENN, Mon August 27, 2007, comments (0)
Vienna, Austria - The United Nations says momentum is building for tougher long-term action to fight global warming beyond the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol and a climate meeting starting in Vienna on Monday will be a crucial part of the process.

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