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March 11, 2010: Lawsuit against Bayer, the maker of the Yaz and Yasmin birth control pills (as featured in Jennifer Tryon's story)
March 11, 2010: Forbes counts down the world's billionaires (as featured in Eric Sorensen's story)
March 11, 2010: Ask your questions to Prime Minister Stephen Harper through YouTube
March 10, 2010: Environment Canada: Temperature & Precipitation in Historical Perspective (as featured in Mike Armstrong's story)
March 10, 2010: More foods (popcorn seasoning, dips) recalled due to salmonella concerns
March 9, 2010: Statistics Canada study: Projections of the diversity of the Canadian population (as featured in Francis Silvaggio's story)
March 9, 2010: Toyota recall information in Canada; and the U.S. (as featured in Eric Sorensen's story)
March 9, 2010: More foods (soup mixes, snacks) recalled due to salmonella concerns
March 8, 2010: More snack foods (pretzels) recalled due to salmonella concerns
March 5, 2010: Tim's Cascade Snacks recalled due to salmonella concerns (as featured in Jennifer Tryon's story)
March 4, 2010: Budget 2010
March 3, 2010: List of Juno nominees for 2010
March 3, 2010: List of torchbearers for the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games (as featured in Shirlee Engel's story)
March 2, 2010: GM recalls compact cars to fix power steering assist
March 1, 2010: Ipsos Reid poll results of Canwest News Service/Global National poll on federal politics (as featured in Jacques Bourbeau's story)
February 26, 2010: Read the full study on Wii helping stroke victims (as featured in Jennifer Tryon's story)
February 25, 2010: Health Canada Recall Notice: Generation 2 Worldwide and "ChildESIGNS" Drop-Side Cribs
February 23, 2010: Send your congratulations to Ashleigh McIvor (as featured in Robin Gill's story)
February 23, 2010: Send your congratulations to Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir (as featured in Robin Gill's story)
February 23, 2010: Statistics Canada's full report on life expectancy (as featured in Mike Le Couteur's story)
February 23, 2010: Post your condolences for Therese Rochette (as featured in Mike Armstrong's story)
February 15, 2010: Post your condolences for Nodar Kumaritashvili (as featured in Carolyn Jarvis's story)
February 11, 2010: American Heart Association: Stent Procedure 101 (as featured in Paul Johnson's story)
Feburary 9, 2010: Honda USA recalls vehicles due to airbag defect
February 9, 2010: Vectorial Elevation, a site allowing you to transform Vancouver's sky as an interactive light show called Vectorial Elevation takes shape
February 7, 2010: Shari's Mission (as featured in Jennifer Tryon's story)
February 5, 2010: Vancouver 2010 Olympics: Interactive Map of Torch Relay (as featured in Carolyn Jarvis's story)
February 4, 2010: The New England Journal of Medicine: Willful Modulation of Brain Activity in Disorders of Consciousness study
February 3, 2010: Toyota Canada's news release on accelerator pedal recall fix; you can also read Toyota USA's news release (as featured in Eric Sorensen's story)
January 29, 2010: Vancouver 2010 Olympics: Interactive Map of Torch Relay (as featured in Robin Gill's story)
January 27, 2010: Toyota Canada's news release on the suspension of sales; you can also read Toyota USA's news release and get more details in this article (as featured in Mike Drolet's story)
January 27, 2010: CNET on the launch of the Apple iPad tablet
January 25, 2010: A Perfect Storm of Heart Disease Looming on Our Horizon, 2010 Heart and Stroke Foundation Annual Report on Canadians' Health (as featured in Jennifer Tryon's story)
January 22, 2010: Toyota Canada's news release on accelerator pedal recall; you can also read Toyota USA's news release and get more details in this story
January 22, 2010: Haiti Earthquake Hotel Montana (as featured in Amanda Jelowicki's story)
January 21, 2010: Vancouver 2010 Olympics: Interactive Map of Torch Relay (as featured in Mike Drolet's story)
January 15, 2010: Rolaids products recalled
January 12, 2010: Catastrophe in Haiti: Foreign Affairs Emergency Operations Centre: Canadians with Family in Haiti: Call 1-800-387-3124 toll free or (613) 943-1055 collect; or e-mail sos@international.gc.ca
January 12, 2010: Flight Information/New Security Rules (as featured in Shirlee Engel's report)
• Calgary International Airport
• Edmonton International Airport
• Halifax International Airport
• Montreal's Pierre Elliot Trudeau Airport
• Ottawa International Airport
• Regina International Airport
• Saskatoon International Airport
• Toronto's Lester B. Pearson International Airport
• Vancouver International Airport
• Winnipeg's James Armstrong Richardson Airport
• Links to more Canadian airports
January 12, 2010: Facebook Group: Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament (as featured in Shirlee Engel's story)
January 12, 2010: New York's assault on salt (as featured in Jennifer Tryon's story)
• New York City's salt reduction targets
• Health Canada's page on sodium
• Government of Manitoba's tips on reducing salt in your diet
• U.S. National Heart Lung and Blood Institute
January 11, 2010: Post condolences for the five Canadians killed in Afghanistan in December
January 8, 2010: Autism study from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (as featured in Jennifer Tryon's story)
January 7, 2010: Post your condolences for slain Ottawa police Cst. Ireneusz "Eric" Czapnik (as featured in Shirlee Engel's story)
January 7, 2010: Canadian Partnership Against Cancer survey results news release (as featured in Jennifer Tryon's story); also check out Colon Cancer Canada and the Canadian Cancer Society
January 7, 2010: 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show (as featured in Mike Armstrong's story)
January 6, 2010: Facebook Group: Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament (as featured in Shirlee Engel's story)
January 4, 2010: Rising Tide: the Impact of Dementia on Canadian Society: Read the full study from the Alzheimer Society of Canada (as featured in Jennifer Tryon's story)
January 1, 2010: Post condolences for the five Canadians killed in Afghanistan this week
January 1, 2010: New laws in 2010
• The new year in British Columbia brings a ban on talking on cell phones and texting while driving.
• A similar ban on cell phones is also in effect in Saskatchewan.
• Penalties will be toughened for certain traffic offences in Ontario.
• Smoking in vehicles with children is prohibited in New Brunswick.
December 30, 2009: Environment Canada's top 10 weather stories of 2009 (as featured in Mike Drolet's story)
December 29, 2009: Best Job Ben: Following the adventures of Ben Southall around the world
December 25, 2009: Easter Seals Camp Horizon (as featured in Bindu Suri's story)
December 24, 2009: Pictures Talk project (as featured in Mike Drolet's story)
December 23, 2009: Some of the Christmas charities you can donate to (as featured in Mike Armstrong's story):
December 22, 2009: E-mail Health Canada about the use of asparaginase; e-mail must have the word "asparaginase" in the subject; the deadline is February 21, 2010 (as featured in Crystal Goomansingh's story)
December 21, 2009: Snowball fight in New York's Times Square video on YouTube
December 20, 2009: Shoes For Souls (as featured in Ross Lord's story on Kyle Warkentin); you can also link to the page on Kijiji
December 17, 2009: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute announces the first comprehensive analyses of cancer genomes (as featured in Jennifer Tryon's story)
December 17, 2009: Vancouver 2010 Olympics: Interactive Map of Torch Relay (as featured in Mike Drolet's story)
December 16, 2009: RBC poll reveals fewer Canadians planning and saving for retirement (as featured in Mike Drolet's story)
December 15, 2009: Cornwall Public Inquiry Report (as featured in Mike Armstrong's story)
December 15, 2009: Roman blinds recall (Health Canada's notice); You can also check out this notice from the Home Depot
December 14, 2009: Radiation from CT scans may raise cancer risk study (from the Journal of the American Medical Association; as featured in Jennifer Tryon's story)
December 11, 2009: Heinz Mixed Cereal warning; may be contaminated with Ochratoxin A (OTA)
December 10, 2009: Calculate your body mass index (BMI) at Health Canada's website (as featured in Jennifer Tryon's story)
December 8, 2009: The Virtual Haydn (as featured in Mike Armstrong's story)
December 7, 2009: Canadian Medical Association: Prescribing of opioid analgesics and related mortality before and after the introduction of long-acting oxycodone (as featured in Jennifer Tryon's story)
December 1, 2009: Help Lesotho (as featured in Shirlee Engel's story)
November 26, 2009: Toyota Canada and Transport Canada complete floor mat investigation; issuing list of recommendations
November 25, 2009: Take Picture Don't Steal (as featured in Christina Stevens's story)
November 25, 2009: Toyota Canada's news release on potential hazard with gas pedals; also check out Toyota USA's statement
November 24, 2009: Stork Craft Baby Crib Recall Notice from Health Canada; also check out the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission & Health Canada's Joint Release
November 23, 2009: Human trafficking links and resources
November 20, 2009: Computed Tomographic Assessment of Atherosclerosis in Ancient Egyptian Mummies Study
November 20, 2009: Link to the provincial and territorial breakdown of the H1N1 flu situation at FightFlu.ca's interactive map or click from the list below:
November 20, 2009: Looking For Martin: the search for the man who saved Laura Beauparlant, this week's Global National's Everyday Hero; e-mail lookingformartin@gmail.com
November 18, 2009: Canadian TV Networks vs Cable Companies (as featured in Shirlee Engel's story)
November 18, 2009: Insurance Institute For Highway Safety's winners of the 2010 Top Safety Pick award
November 6, 2009: Justin Hines (as featured in this week's Everyday Hero profile); also check out Courage Portraits, where you can create your own "Courage Video" to Justin's music, and share it with your friends and family
November 3, 2009: 2009 November Report of the Auditor General of Canada (as featured in Peter Harris's story)
October 26, 2009: Vintage Wings of Canada Foundation (as featured in Kevin Newman's story)
October 24, 2009: How do Canadians feel about the H1N1 flu and vaccine? Check out the results of a Global News/Ipsos Reid poll.
October 24, 2009: Canadian Forces Personnel and Family Support Services Military Families Fund (as featured in this week's Everyday Hero profile)
October 22, 2009: Government of Canada's H1N1 flu vaccine dosage recommendations
October 19, 2009: Hamilton - The Waterfall Capital of the World (as featured in Christina Stevens's story)
October 16, 2009: Read the blog of the two men who fought off a grizzly bear and lived to tell the tale
October 16, 2009: GlobalMedic (as featured in this week's Everyday Hero profile)
October 15, 2009: The Canadian Real Estate Association's statement on MLS home sales (as featured in Mike Armstrong's report)
October 13, 2009: Petition to save the Best Polka Album category at the GRAMMYs
October 12 & 13, 2009: Listen to Michael Jackson's new single This Is It
October 12, 2009: Ipsos Reid/Global News federal political party poll results (as featured in Jacques Bourbeau's report)
October 12, 2009: JAMA (The Journal of the American Medical Association): Critically Ill Patients With 2009 Influenza A(H1N1) Infection in Canada (as featured in Mike Drolet's report)
October 9, 2009: SACRED: The Society for Assisted Cooperative Recovery from Eating Disorders (as featured in this week's Everyday Hero profile)
October 8, 2009: NASA Blog: LCROSS Flight Director's Blog (as featured in Eric Sorensen's report)
October 8, 2009: The Cable Song: a YouTube video in the campaign to save local TV
October 6, 2009: Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada: My Privacy, My Choice, My Life (as featured in Shirlee Engel's story)
October 2, 2009: Donate to Carpe Diem 88 Inc. (as featured in this week's Everyday Hero profile)
September 30, 2009: Toyota/Lexus Consumer Safety Advisory: Potential Floor Mat Interference with Accelerator Pedal; also see Toyota Canada's statement on the warning (as featured in Eric Sorensen's story)
September 28, 2009: Goodwin Learning Centre's Pebble Drive Memorial Project (as featured in Christina Stevens's story)
September 25, 2009: Are you addicted to the internet? Take the test at the Center for Internet Addiction Recovery's website (as featured in Robin Gill's story)
September 24, 2009: Additional details on the AIDS vaccine breakthrough (as featured in Ben O'Hara-Byrne's story)
September 24, 2009: Moon on the water study details from NASA (as featured in Peter Harris's story)
September 24, 2009: Parkinson's Disease
September 22, 2009: 2009 Summit on Climate Change
September 22, 2009: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) resources (as featured in Shirlee Engel's special series Invisible Wounds)
September 21, 2009: A Million Tweets to Remember: Tweets for Alzheimer's
September 19, 2009: Gigagalaxy Zoom: Tour the Milky Way with a new interactive map
September 18, 2009: Service Canada Job Bank (as featured in Francis Silvaggio's report)
September 18, 2009: The Comfy Cozy Fund (as featured in this week's Everyday Hero profile)
September 15, 2009: Canadian Paediatric Society's information page on ear infections (as featured in Jennifer Tryon's report)
September 14, 2009: Global News/Ipsos Reid poll on Canadians' support for political parties
September 14, 2009: Cancer Drug Access for Canadians Report from the Canadian Cancer Society; the report's page 34 (or the 37th page of the entire document) lists the funding status of selected newer cancer treatment drugs (as featured in Jennifer Tryon's story)
September 11, 2009: Office of the Correctional Investigator's Report on Prison Deaths in Canada
September 11, 2009: The Jessica Campaign (as featured in this week's Everyday Hero story)
September 9, 2009: The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario's report card on the heart health of Ontario children (as featured in Jennifer Tryon's report)
September 4, 2009: Back to Basics Social Developments (as featured in this week's Everyday Hero)
September 4, 2009: Winton Train Project (as featured in Tara Nelson's story)
August 29, 2009: Listeria warning: More than a dozen types of deli meats sold across Canada were hit by a recall over fears they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
August 27, 2009: On Thin Ice: Dr. Gordon G. Giesbrecht's research on cold water immersion
August 27, 2009: Discovery in the St. Lawrence: Learn more about the American WWII plane that crashed in 1942 - and was recently found.
August 27, 2009: Laptop recalls: A fatal fire involving an overheated laptop has experts calling on owners to pay attention to recalls.
August 26, 2009: Hypermiling: A new trend in driving aimed at saving you gas
August 26, 2009: Windows blinds recall: Over 5.5 million window blinds and shades are being recalled due to strangulation concerns.
August 17, 2009: Canadian Medical Association's 9th Annual National Report Card on Health Care: Impact of the Economic Downturn on the Health of Canadians (as featured in Crystal Goomansingh's report)
August 14, 2009: World Pipe Band Championships 2009
August 13, 2009: Lightning safety tips from Environment Canada
August 13, 2009: Viral photo: Check out the picture of the cheeky squirrel photo crasher
August 13, 2009: Donating to the Kanata 5 (the Ottawa cyclists injured in a collision in July, as featured in Jacques Bourbeau's report)
August 12, 2009: Typhoon Morakot information for Canadians
August 12, 2009: Exposing The Cove
August 11, 2009: Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP's Police Investigating Police Final Report
August 5, 2009: The duck hunting video promoted on August 5 is no longer available due to copyright issues
August 5, 2009: Viral video: A YouTube video shows a Georgia mom dragging her child through a store
August 4, 2009: Maple Leaf Foods wieners recalled due to possible Listeria contamination
August 4, 2009: Quebec's mini driver: Watch the YouTube video of a seven-year-old boy driving along a deserted dirt road in Quebec
August 3, 2009: B.C. wildfire information
July 31, 2009: More on NASA's space shuttle Endeavour
July 31, 2009: World Pinball Championships
July 29, 2009: Advice on finding financial advisors
July 27 & 28, 2009: Job search resources for older workers
July 26, 2009: VIA Rail's schedules
July 22, 2009: Learn more about Brenda Lussier, who began an important swim across Lake Ontario. She's hoping to raise $40,000 towards the construction of a wheelchair accessible waterpark at the Bob Rumball Camp of the Deaf. You can donate to her cause by clicking here.
July 21, 2009: Government of Canada's full report on the 2008 listeriosis crisis
July 21, 2009: Vote for the New 7 Wonders of Nature
July 21, 2009: Victoria Times-Colonist's coverage of the murders of Anne Durrant and Leif Carlsson in Tofino, B.C.
July 20, 2009: We Choose The Moon, a website celebrating the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11's lunar landing
July 20, 2009: Google Moon
July 17, 2009: Public Health Agency of Canada's FluWatch Page
July 16, 2009: Cross Canada Century Flight 2009: Track the itinerary of the 100 year celebration of flight in Canada
July 15, 2009: NASA's Weather Criteria For Launching Space Shuttles
July 14, 2009: SwindledByEarlJones.com: A website is launched to reach out to victims of alleged fraud artist Earl Jones
July 9, 2009: A graphic YouTube video shows three white men attacking a lone black man in B.C.
July 5, 2009: Rebuilding Edzimkulu: Learn more about a Canadian couple helping AIDS-stricken children in South Africa
June 29, 2009: Canada's Organic Products Regulations from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency
June 27, 2009: Health Canada's Warning About Reusable Grocery Bags
June 23, 2009: If you'd like to help someone who needs a liver transplant, log onto www.onematch.ca or www.stepbystep.ca
June 22, 2009: Is This Your Luggage? A British woman launches a website aimed at reuniting travellers with their suitcases (as featured in Tara Nelson's report)
June 19, 2009: Ottawa wants to stop the use of phthalates in soft vinyl toys and child-care articles
June 17, 2009: The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada's new guidelines on caesarean sections and breech births
June 9, 2009: Kurt Perschke's RedBall Project
June 4, 2009: Watch NASA's full video of Neil Armstrong's One Small Step
June 2, 2009: Learn to strut in high heels, thanks to AbsoluteConfidence.com
May 28, 2009: Tuberculosis warning to Greyhound bus passengers
May 28, 2009: The Institute of Medicine of the National Academies on Weight Gain During Pregnancy: Reexamining the Guidelines
May 26, 2009: Learn more about donating stem cells at OneMatch
May 25, 2009: The Forgotten, a special project dedicated to honouring the memories of Vancouver's forgotten women
May 23, 2009: Pistachio products recalled due to possible contamination from salmonella
May 19, 2009: The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission's (CNSC) statement on the NRU reactor shutdown
May 15, 2009: Undeclared milk warning in Sensational Soy beverages
May 14, 2009: Canadian researchers perform a study on infant respiratory infections
May 14, 2009: Victims 2 Victors: View the photo album of Capt. Trevor Greene, who was featured in Ross Lord's story
May 13, 2009: Who's the weaker sex? McGill University's new study on the difference between the immune systems of men and women
May 11, 2009: NASA's details on Space Shuttle Mission: STS-125 (Space Shuttle Atlantis)
April 29, 2009: Tax tips from Jamie Golombek, CIBC's director of tax and estate planning
April 24, 2009: Resources on divorces
April 23, 2009: Bank of Canada's Credit Conditions
April 22, 2009: Future Vehicle Technologies has a very cool car that won't heat up the environment
April 20, 2009: American Association for Cancer Research: Could a urine test better predict someone's risk for lung cancer?
April 17, 2009: Citizenship and Immigration Canada: Canada's new citizenship laws
April 17, 2009: Government of Ontario's report into the 2008 listeriosis crisis
April 17, 2009: Canwest Canspell National Spelling Bee
April 16, 2009: Canadian Cancer Society's cancer statistics
