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• Spread of H1N1 flu across Canada calls for more people to be vaccinated
• Severe winter weather sweeps through much of Canada
• Manitoba First Nation probed over loans, advances to former band council, staff
• Carjacker at large after assaults in Richmond, Vancouver
• Joint B.C.-Alberta report looks at whether oil-by-rail a viable option
• Lights out for the incandescent bulb
• Budget surplus could be bigger than forecast in 2015, Flaherty tells CTV
• Saskatoon woman charged with murder in young boy's death
• Carbon monoxide scare prompts safety investigation in Ont.
• Alberta makes top 10 in U.K. list of 2014 travel spots
• More boreal forest protected in 2013 but challenges remain: scientist
• Should cyclists be forced to pay an annual registration fee?
• How to cure blindness, concussions and baldness
• World juniors 2014: Russia wins 2-1 over Canada for bronze
• Whitehorse mother reunited with children after six years
• Residents and businesses across Newfoundland urged to conserve power
• Plane from Toronto slides off JFK runway; icy runways halt planes for 2 hours
• Edmonton fan of comedy show Tosh.0 charged with watching while driving
• 'Life-threatening' cold bites Midwest, heads east
• Canada could have larger-than-expected surplus, says finance minister

Spread of H1N1 flu across Canada calls for more people to be vaccinated Posted: 05 Jan 2014 11:20 AM PST This winter's flu season has been exceptionally powerful thanks to the resurgence of the H1N1 strain and an apparent complacency that has come over the country since the the swine flu was last prevalent. Continue reading →

Severe winter weather sweeps through much of Canada Posted: 05 Jan 2014 11:14 AM PST Just when many Canadians started getting over the severe winter weather of the last days of 2013, more extreme wind chills have descended upon the prairies. Now eastern Canada looks to be in the sights of another ice storm. Continue reading →

Manitoba First Nation probed over loans, advances to former band council, staff Posted: 05 Jan 2014 10:41 PM PST OTTAWA - A First Nation on the shores of Lake Manitoba is being investigated over loans and advances paid to its former band council and staff, newly released documents show. Professional auditors from the firm KPMG are also looking into payments made to build off-reserve housing as well as social-assistance payments to senior administrators and the former chief and councillors of the O-Chi-Chak-Ko-Sipi First Nation. Documents obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act provide an overview of KPMG's audit work, which covered the period from April 2009 to March 2012. The auditors were asked to take a closer look at loans and advances paid to 13 people who were "certain senior administrators, or were members of the council," according to the documents.

Carjacker at large after assaults in Richmond, Vancouver Posted: 05 Jan 2014 09:34 PM PST Vancouver police are searching for a suspect who allegedly carjacked a Honda Civic from a family after crashing a car stolen earlier during a Richmond, B.C., attack.

Joint B.C.-Alberta report looks at whether oil-by-rail a viable option Posted: 05 Jan 2014 11:00 AM PST VANCOUVER - A task force report has been handed in to the British Columbia and Alberta governments that examines the idea of transporting oilsands' crude via rail if proposed pipelines don't get the green light, government documents show. It's a "backdoor way for industry to bring tankers to the coast without the same sort of public oversight or public process that we've had around the Enbridge pipeline or would have around the Kinder Morgan pipeline," said Ben West, campaign director for ForestEthics. A joint provincial working group was announced by premiers Christy Clark and Alison Redford in July to develop recommendations related to energy exports and the opening of new export markets for products like bitumen for the two provinces, including pipeline and rail transport.

Lights out for the incandescent bulb Posted: 05 Jan 2014 03:00 PM PST The incandescent light bulb was born on Jan. 27, 1880, when U.S. inventor Thomas Edison famously patented his "electric lamp.

Budget surplus could be bigger than forecast in 2015, Flaherty tells CTV Posted: 05 Jan 2014 04:56 PM PST OTTAWA - The federal budget surplus could be bigger than predicted in 2015, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said in an interview aired Sunday. A Dec. 5 report from the PBO estimated the government could achieve a surplus of $4.6 billion by 2015, nearly $1 billion more than the estimate included in the November economic update. In an interview with CTV's Question Period, Flaherty said Canada could have a bigger surplus than projected if both the domestic and U.S. economies continue to gain strength. "And the OECD and the IMF have both said to Canada, we ought to let our interest rates go up a bit, so there will be some pressure there for that to happen."

Saskatoon woman charged with murder in young boy's death Posted: 05 Jan 2014 05:43 AM PST A 35-year-old woman has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of a five-year-old boy in Saskatoon.

Carbon monoxide scare prompts safety investigation in Ont. Posted: 05 Jan 2014 01:24 PM PST Ontario's safety watchdog is investigating after four Ottawa housing co-op residents were hospitalized with carbon monoxide poisoning on Sunday.

Alberta makes top 10 in U.K. list of 2014 travel spots Posted: 05 Jan 2014 01:33 PM PST Albertans know their province is the best place to be, but a new ranking of top travel destinations by U.K. newspaper The Guardian suggests others are realizing it too.

More boreal forest protected in 2013 but challenges remain: scientist Posted: 05 Jan 2014 01:00 AM PST Canada has made significant strides in protecting the vast boreal forest that stretches across most of its provinces and territories, but the world's largest intact forest ecosystem still faces threats, says an environmental group. The amount of boreal forest under some form of government protection has doubled since 2007 to about 12 per cent of the total area, biologist Jeff Wells of the Canadian Boreal Initiative said recently. The boreal forest is the huge swath of green that stretches from Newfoundland to the Yukon.

Should cyclists be forced to pay an annual registration fee? Posted: 05 Jan 2014 12:14 AM PST There's an interesting debate going on south of the border about licensing and taxing cyclists. The lively discourse was recently sparked after a Chicago council woman proposed an annual $25 fee for that city's bike riders. Continue reading →

How to cure blindness, concussions and baldness Posted: 05 Jan 2014 01:43 PM PST What seems like science fiction is now becoming reality

World juniors 2014: Russia wins 2-1 over Canada for bronze Posted: 05 Jan 2014 07:28 AM PST Russia beat Canada 2-1 in the battle for bronze at the world junior championship in Sweden today.

Whitehorse mother reunited with children after six years Posted: 05 Jan 2014 06:43 AM PST Marivic Perlawan of Whitehorse, who, until recently, was a temporary foreign worker, has been reunited with her children after six years of separation.

Residents and businesses across Newfoundland urged to conserve power Posted: 05 Jan 2014 08:20 PM PST ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - About 90,000 Newfoundland Power customers were without electricity Sunday night after a power plant went offline in the latest power problem to hit the province in recent days. Spokeswoman Dawn Dalley said on Twitter there was a flash in the switch yard at the Holyrood power plant, but there was no issue with the plant or the generating units, and no one was injured.

Plane from Toronto slides off JFK runway; icy runways halt planes for 2 hours Posted: 05 Jan 2014 12:38 PM PST NEW YORK, N.Y. - A plane from Toronto slid into snow as it turned onto a taxiway after landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Sunday, halting flights at the airport for two hours and causing residual delays. "It could have been worse, a much worse scenario," Jordan Houlton told reporters after he emerged from Delta Connection 4100 along with 34 other passengers and crew members about 90 minutes after the slippery diversion of the CRJ2 aircraft. Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said there was no immediate report of injuries after the plane landed safely at 8 a.m., only to lose its footing and slide into snow as it turned from the runway onto a taxiway. The plane was then towed to a gate with passengers on board, she said.

Edmonton fan of comedy show Tosh.0 charged with watching while driving Posted: 05 Jan 2014 08:48 PM PST CALGARY - Watching an episode of the TV comedy Tosh.0 while driving through a snowstorm on the weekend turned out to be no laughing matter for a 28-year-old Edmonton man. Alberta Sheriffs were alerted by a concerned motorist about a vehicle travelling southbound on Highway 2 near Carstairs in central Alberta. The show, hosted by comedian Daniel Tosh, pokes fun at videos from the Internet — often at the moronic antics of some drivers. "Unfortunately, our officers see this kind of driver behaviour on Highway 2 far more often than we would like.

'Life-threatening' cold bites Midwest, heads east Posted: 05 Jan 2014 06:47 PM PST By Brendan O'Brien and Kim Palmer MILWAUKEE/COLUMBUS (Reuters) - As the Midwestern United States shivered through the region's lowest temperatures in two decades and forecasters warned that life-threatening cold was heading eastward, officials in Chicago and other districts said schools would be closed on Monday. Icy conditions snarled travel across the Midwest and thousands of flights were canceled or delayed, days after the Northeast was hammered by the first winter storm of the season. "The coldest temperatures in almost two decades will spread into the northern and central U.S. today behind an arctic cold front," the National Weather Service said on Sunday. "Combined with gusty winds, these temperatures will result in life-threatening wind chill values as low as 60 degrees below zero (Fahrenheit/minus 51 degrees Celsius)." In weather that cold, frostbite can set in on uncovered skin in a matter of minutes, experts warned.

Canada could have larger-than-expected surplus, says finance minister Posted: 05 Jan 2014 10:10 AM PST Canada could have a larger-than-expected budget surplus once it eliminates the federal deficit in the 2015-16 fiscal year, the country's finance minister said on Sunday. We're in good shape," Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said in an interview with CTV's "Question Period". Canada had run 11 straight budget surpluses before plunging back into deficit following the 2008 financial crisis. Canada's federal budget deficits have paled in comparison with those of the United States, even adjusting for the fact the U.S. economy is roughly nine times as big.

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