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Leafs keep up late-season surge
Friday, 19 March 2010 - 1:04pm TORONTO—With fewer than a dozen games remaining in what had long since become another lost season, the Toronto Maple Leafs stepped off the ice last night well aware they were not playing for a division title, a playoff berth, or anything more lofty than the promise of future employment.
“We’re playing for each other,” forward Phil Kessel said.
Business
Core inflation rate remains stubbornly hot
Friday, 19 March 2010 - 1:00pm OTTAWA—Consumer prices in Canada remained stubbornly hot last month, driving the loonie higher on expectations the Bank of Canada may be on interest rate alert.
The loonie peeked above the 99-cent U.S. mark this morning after Statistics Canada reported inflation had not dropped nearly as much as expected in February.
National
Flood threat likely to be low
Friday, 19 March 2010 - 1:06pm WINNIPEG—People in Manitoba’s Red River Valley should be able to breathe more easier this spring than the thousands who have been trying to hold back rising waters upstream in North Dakota.
Weeks of warm, dry weather gradually have melted snow about two weeks earlier than usual and reduced the likelihood of flooding in the coming weeks.
Technology
World’s largest atom smasher in Geneva sets record by tripling energy of proton beams
Friday, 19 March 2010 - 8:05amGENEVA — Operators of the world’s largest atom smasher on Friday ramped up their massive machine to three times the energy ever previously achieved, in the run-up to experiments probing the secrets of the universe.
Health & Wellness
Some lots of OneTouch blood-glucose test strips being recalled by maker
Friday, 19 March 2010 - 7:56am OTTAWA — The maker of OneTouch SureStep test strips has issued a voluntary recall of some lots of the product used by diabetics to measure blood-glucose levels.
LifeScan Canada Ltd., in consultation with Health Canada, issued the recall Thursday because specific lots of the test strips may provide low results when blood glucose is greater than 22.2 mmol/L.
International
Obama spars with Fox News anchor during interview punctuated by interruptions and chiding
Thursday, 18 March 2010 - 7:57amWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Wednesday took to the Fox News Channel, derided by his White House as a wing of the Republican Party, to sell his embattled health care overhaul in an interview punctuated with interruptions from the host and chiding from the guest.
Science
Toy poodle to bull mastiff, dogs genetically linked to Mideast wolf: study
Thursday, 18 March 2010 - 7:46amTORONTO — It’s hard to imagine when looking at Rex the lumbering St. Bernard and Fifi the frou-frou toy poodle, but it appears most breeds of domesticated dogs can trace their ancestry to the same source — the Middle Eastern grey wolf.
People
Some stomachs churn over live octopus, brains but food adventure clubs make meal
Thursday, 18 March 2010 - 7:48am NEW YORK — Ben Raisher watches as the writhing octopus on his plate has its tentacles clipped with giant shears, then squirms in amber sesame oil like a pile of bisected earthworms.
With a deft pinch of his chopsticks, the wriggling, still-alive limb is in his mouth and down his throat.
Life
Women look at whether biology reality meshes with financial, educational goals
Friday, 12 March 2010 - 8:34am Amanda Daniels never thought she’d be worried about her fertility as her 30th birthday approached.
“I figured I would be married with kids by now,” says the 29-year-old marketing assistant, who wonders if she’ll be able to have children into her 40s like her mother did.
“It would take a lot of pressure off me if I knew how much time I had left.”
