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CBC.ca
2nd BC salmon farm quarantined over virus fears
CTV.ca
For the second time in less than two weeks, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has quarantined a BC salmon farm over concerns about the presence and possible spread of a virus. Grieg Seafood announced Wednesday that while tests haven't yet confirmed ...
BC salmon farm quarantined over virus fearsCBC.ca
Mainstream Canada costs unknown after Atlantic salmon virus outbreakCanada.com
Salmon farmers work together on virus managementCampbell River Mirror
TheFishSite.com -Dissident Voice
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Flu shots and pregnancy
CHCH News
A new study suggests pregnant women who got a flu shot during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic were more likely to have healthier babies than women who didn't get a shot. The study also finds that women vaccinated against H1N1 were less likely to give birth to a ...
Flu shot for moms may cut risk of stillbirths, premature births: studyMontreal Gazette
Flu shot for moms linked to lower rates of infant deathsCTV.ca
Flu shot prevents stillbirths: StudyToronto Sun
Times of India
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Gym should have let man work out in hiking boots, tribunal rules
Globe and Mail
British Columbia's Human Rights Tribunal has awarded more than $1900 to a man whose gym wouldn't let him work out in hiking boots. Keith Wollenberg filed his discrimination complaint in April, 2011, shortly after the Platinum Athletic Club told him the ...
Gym ordered to pay $2000 for discrimination against boot-wearing customerCanada.com
Boot-wearer wins bias caseCANOE
Human rights agency justifies its process24 Hours Vancouver

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It’s a confusing world for babies. To make sense of it, they look for intellectual stimulation. But they’re only interested if what they look at is not too hard to comprehend--or boringly easy. Researchers call it the Goldilocks effect, in a study in the journal Public Library of Science One . [Celeste Kidd, Steven T. Piantadosi and Richard N. Aslin, The Goldilocks Effect: Human Infants Allocate Attention to Visual Sequences That Are Neither Too Simple Nor Too Complex ]

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Toronto Star
Refugee health-care cuts threaten everyone's access
Toronto Star
YY Brandon Chen The federal government's recent decision to scale back temporary health-care coverage for refugees and refugee claimants has been criticized on several grounds. Some argue that the policy change targets a particularly vulnerable ...
Cannan: Misleading argument about refugees and immigrationKelowna Capital News
Mean-spirited politickingWaterloo Record

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Toronto Star
Battle heats up between province, doctors
Toronto Star
Rob Ferguson and Theresa Boyle Staff Reporters Medical students are raising temperatures in the heated battle between Ontario and its doctors as Health Minister Deb Matthews scolds physicians for scaring the public with talk of cutting eye surgeries.
Matt Gurney: If Ontario doctors stop working over wages, they'll loseNational Post
Eye physicians and surgeons speaking out against cuts to eye services680 News
Bad math equals bad politicsBelleville Intelligencer
DigitalJournal.com (press release) -Newstalk 1010
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