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How do you rate the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games?
 Gold — Great performances, great entertainment.
 Silver — Worthwhile despite the so-called glitches.
 Bronze — Disappointing, expensive, elitist hoopla.
 Coal — I lost CTV and missed the whole thing.
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Government backs away after B.C. ambulance union says it will roll over deal
VANCOUVER, B.C. - In an effort to wrap up stymied contract talks, B.C.’s ambulance paramedics have agreed to roll over their collective agreement for two more years. But now provincial Health Minister Kevin Falcon says he isn’t interested in the idea and instead says he wants to fix the br...
Wednesday, March 10, 2010

US philanthropist Raymond Tye, who paid for conjoined twins’ separation, dies at age 87
BOSTON - A Massachusetts philanthropist who gave away millions of dollars to meet medical expenses for needy people and paid for the separation surgery of conjoined Egyptian twins has died. A. Raymond Tye was 87. Daughter Carol Rose says the former chairman of a beverage distribution firm ...
Wednesday, March 10, 2010

B.C. researchers find way to predict treatment response in Hodgkin’s patients
TORONTO - An international team of cancer researchers has found a way to predict which Hodgkin’s lymphoma patients won’t respond well to therapies, opening the door to using a less aggressive regimen on those more likely to be cured. The team, led by researchers at the B.C. Cancer Agency i...
Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Union fires back on Ontario’s new plan to make hospitals compete for cash
TORONTO - The conversation Premier Dalton McGuinty said he wanted to have about Ontario’s health-care system seems to be turning into a shouting match. Groups representing health professionals and hospital workers are less than thrilled with the Liberals’ proposed changes to hospital fundi...
Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Saskatchewan doctors warned over Ontario company’s offer to store patient files
REGINA - Saskatchewan’s privacy commissioner is warning the province’s doctors about an Ontario-based company that is offering to store patient files. Gary Dickson says he has concerns about information DOCUdavit Services Inc. outlines in promotional literature to physicians who may be ret...
Wednesday, March 10, 2010

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