Lindsey Tanner, The Associated Press Published Thursday, May 16, 2013 (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green) CHICAGO — As the guitarist strums and softly sings a lullaby in Spanish, tiny Augustin Morales stops squirming in his hospital crib and closes his eyes. This is therapy in a newborn intensive care unit, and research suggests that music may [...]
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One in 12 hospital patients carries antibiotic-resistant ‘superbug’
May 14th, 2013 
Cloe CTVNews.ca Monday, May 13, 2013 More than 2,890 hospital patients in Canada are infected with a so-called “superbug,” or an antibiotic-resistant organism, at any one time, according to new Canadian research, which also found that most infections were acquired in a health-care facility. The findings, released Monday and published in the journal Infection Control and [...]
Vaillancourt, Accurso and 35 others arrested
May 9th, 2013 admin CBC.CA Quebec’s anti-corruption squad arrested 37 people this morning including Gilles Vaillancourt, the embattled former mayor of Laval, Que. The squad also arrested former construction entrepreneur Tony Accurso and former Dessau Engineering executive Rosaire Sauriol in a provincewide sweep. “We [executed] 70 search warrants,” said UPAC commisssioner Robert Lafrenière. “We captured approximately 30,000 wiretapped conversations. [...]
Activist who tried to ‘arrest’ George W. Bush dies in B.C.
May 7th, 2013 Cloe The Associated Press Published Monday, May 6, 2013 A man who was the only inmate convicted of murder following the famous 1971 Attica, N.Y., prison uprising, and who 38 years later tried to make a “citizen arrest” of former U.S. president George W. Bush in Calgary, has died. The body of John Boncore, 61, [...]
Ottawa’s cost-cutting budget will eliminate 14,000 jobs
April 29th, 2013 Cloe The Canadian Press Monday, April 29, 2013 OTTAWA — The federal government’s most recent “jobs and growth” budget will wind up costing Canada both jobs and economic growth over the next few years, the Parliamentary Budget Officer says in a new report. The PBO’s latest estimates on the impact of the 2013 budget [...]
