• MPs return to Ottawa to tackle pension, budget issues       -    Jan 30, 2012. 
It's back to the business of government in Ottawa today, as lawmakers return from their six-week winter break for what is expected to be a busy session of Parliament.

• Quit gloating, dig out those winter boots   Winnipeg Free Press    -    Oct 11, 2011. 
Dig out those long johns and keep the Sorels handy. The weather experts to the south say Manitoba can expect an early and very cold winter this year. Meteorologists with AccuWeather.com say the beautiful fall weather is going to come to an abrupt end very soon.

• Air Canada flight attendants could walk off job by Thursday   Vancouver Sun    -    Oct 11, 2011. 
The federal government said Monday it was weighing its options after Air Canada's flight attendants served strike notice on the weekend, saying they were prepared to walk off the job as early as Thursday morning if a new labour deal is not met by then.

• How wireless technology can affect the body   CBC News    -    Oct 05, 2011. 
The bulk of research into cellphones and their base towers has found no definitive evidence that short-term use poses significant health risks to humans. So, policy makers have given industry the green light, allowing the use of wireless gear to explode around the world, to about five billion wireless subscriptions worldwide, by the World Health Organization's estimate.

• Specialists, acute-care driving health costs — not aging population: Study   Vancouver Sun    -    Aug 30, 2011. 
Rising acute-care costs and more reliance on specialists and diagnostic tests are a far greater threat to Canada's health-care system than the greying population, says a new study.

• Don’t sell out sovereignty for border deal, Canadians tell Harper   TheStar.com    -    Aug 30, 2011. 
OTTAWA—Plans for increased border security and a better trade agreement between Canada and the United States shouldn’t come at the expense of fewer safeguards on personal information or the loss of national sovereignty.

• Popular baldness drug linked to male breast cancer       -    Aug 05, 2011. 
A popular drug used by men across the country to treat pattern baldness could come with an unwanted side effect: an increased risk of breast cancer.

• U.S. health-care system less efficient: Study   torontosun.com    -    Aug 05, 2011. 
While critics of the Canadian health-care system lament long wait times and big costs to governments, a new University of Toronto study shows one way our system works more efficiently, and cheaply, than those south of the border.

• Last call for B.C. HST referendum ballots   theglobeandmail.com    -    Aug 05, 2011. 
B.C. voters have until 4:30 p.m. local time today to cast their ballots in a referendum that could lead to the repeal of the province’s harmonized sales tax. Final results are expected to be released by August 25.

• Space tourism to open up next frontier of travel   montrealgazette.com    -    Jul 21, 2011. 
If you think of Earth's orbit and the moon as a big unclaimed territory, ripe for adventure, then you're in for a treat. The space excursions now being planned promise nothing less than a new perspective of life on Earth and an expansion of what it means to be human.