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• Canada's leader gambles for majority gov't
Dion is a former professor from the French-speaking province of Quebec whose struggles to communicate in English have become a major issue. He has moved his party to the crowded left by staking his leadership on a "Green Shift" tax plan. Dion, a ...
• 9 ways to lose weight without dieting
Getting enough shut-eye can keep your body from storing fat, scientists at Laval University in Quebec note. Night owls who log fewer than six hours of sleep are 35 percent more likely to gain weight — on average, 11 pounds over six years — than ...
• Bug mutates into medical mystery
In Canada, for example, Quebec health officials reported last year that perhaps 200 patients died in an outbreak involving at least 10 hospitals. Similar outbreaks were reported in England and the Netherlands. After the CDC began receiving reports of ...
• Diabetics: Watch out for fake test strips
They were distributed nationwide but primarily in Ohio, New York, Florida, Maryland and Missouri by Medical Plastic Devices Inc., of Quebec, Canada, and Champion Sales Inc., of Brooklyn, N.Y., the FDA said. The alert came a day after LifeScan said it ...
• Ancient ice shelf breaks free in Arctic
Part of what was the Ayles Ice Shelf is surveyed last summer by Denis Sarrazin, a researcher with the Center for Northern Studies at Laval University in Quebec City, Canada. Sarrazin and other researchers visited what is now an island as part of an ...