Canadian news shorts.In Calgary, bibles in bedside tables may be outlawed in hospital rooms, says Toni MacDonald, director of spiritual care of the Calgary Health region Calgary Health Region is the governing body for healthcare regulation in an area of the Canadian province of Alberta. The region administers facilities in the communities of: | width="" align="left" valign="top" |
In Toronto the newly invested provincial premier Dalton McGuinty Dalton James Patrick McGuinty, Jr., MPP (born July 19, 1955, in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian lawyer and politician and, since October 23, 2003, Premier of Ontario. He is the twenty-fourth premier of Ontario, and the second Roman Catholic to hold this office. appointed openly "gay" activist Member of the Provincial Parliament, George Smitherman George Smitherman MPP (born 1964) is a Canadian politician, who represents the provincial riding of Toronto Centre in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. He is notable for being the first openly gay Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) elected in Ontario, and the first openly , 39, to be the new Minister of Health. A flamboyant "Gay Parade" participant, Smitherman and his friend Toronto "gay" councillor Kyle Rae Kyle Rae is a city councillor for Ward 27 Toronto Centre-Rosedale in Toronto, Canada. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario. admitted to the Toronto Sun in 1999 to having had sex with HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. infected men but said it was of no consequence since they wore condoms (Lifesite News, Oct 23, 2003). In Montreal a "miracle" baby grew outside his mother's uterus inside her abdomen for 37 weeks and is now a healthy baby boy. The positioning of the baby outside the uterus occurs in one of 10,000 pregnancies. Fewer than one in a million are carried successfully to term (The Gazette, Aug 12, 2003). |
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