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High salt boosts stroke, heart risks

Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Ottawa :: Canada | updated Fri Nov 27 08:14:17 -0800 2009 | technology-news

The number of new cases of H1N1 influenza in many communities across Canada appears to be levelling off, federal health officials say. The president of the Canadian Medical Association is calling for a national debate on what health services should...

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Star Trek leads the way

Posted by: prabirghose

Ottawa :: Canada | updated Sun Nov 22 20:47:43 -0800 2009 | technology-news

The sci-fi TV serial Star Trek captured the imagination of man and when it was made into a movie, the imagnation of everyone went wild with excitement. When coupled with advancements in space exploration and travel to the Moon, people...

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Caution to astronauts for Mars

Posted by: prabirghose

Ottawa :: Canada | updated Mon Nov 16 21:28:03 -0800 2009 | technology-news

A research study by Canadian space scientists have arrived at a not-too-pleasant conclusion – astronauts who would travel to Mars would have to face problems of rapidly aging bone marrow!! The study was carried on two dozen women who volunteered...

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Ottawa suffers ninth fire in as many days

Source: Delhi News-Record

Ottawa :: Canada | updated Mon Nov 16 00:05:23 -0800 2009 | technology-news

Police are treating the ninth large fire in as many days as suspicious. Fire officials confirmed reports that a Molotov cocktail, or a similar incendiary device, was hurled through the ground floor window of 235 Nepean St. just before midnight...

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Vaccine delayed, vaccine denied

Source: The Globe & Mail

Ottawa :: Canada | updated Wed Oct 14 14:25:06 -0700 2009 | technology-news

EDT Last updated on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009 12:08AM EDT Q ueue jumping is the newest Olympic sport. Canada's chief doctor for this winter's games in Vancouver wants the athletes treated as a priority group – along with pregnant women,...

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Marketers want anti-spam bill altered

Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Ottawa :: Canada | updated Fri Oct 16 17:09:40 -0700 2009 | technology-news

In a message sent to its 800 corporate members — which include Costco, the Liquor Control Board of Ontario, Home Depot and Rogers — on Thursday, the CMA urged companies to get in touch with their local MPs to demand...

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Privacy czar warns of posting too much info online

Source: Delhi News-Record

Ottawa :: Canada | updated Tue Oct 06 16:51:08 -0700 2009 | technology-news

Young Canadians should proceed with caution when putting their personal lives online, Canada�s privacy czar warns. In her annual report to Parliament, Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart said today�s youth are playing out their lives in public in ways their parents...

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MDs, nurses pressing for more specific pandemic plan

Source: Canada.com

Ottawa :: Canada | updated Mon Oct 05 18:27:21 -0700 2009 | technology-news

Canada's doctors and nurses pressed MPs to help fill the gaps in the national pandemic plan Monday, urging them to ask the government for more consistent communication...That protection means making N95 respirator masks available to nurses and other frontline workers,...

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Ottawa's eco-vehicles running on dirty fuel

Source: Toronto Star

Ottawa :: Canada | updated Fri Oct 02 14:26:00 -0700 2009 | technology-news

They're all the rage among the image-conscious Tory cabinet, but attempts to cut emissions from the massive fleet of government vehicles are stuck in neutral more than a decade after being mandated by law. Even though most of the shiny...

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Study: MySpace, LinkedIn have privacy issues

Source: Delhi News-Record

Ottawa :: Canada | updated Fri Oct 02 16:29:16 -0700 2009 | technology-news

Think Facebook is the only social network site with privacy problems? Think again, says a study commissioned by Canada�s Privacy Commissioner of six popular social network sites including MySpace and LinkedIn. The study found many of sites have the same...

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