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Canada
SARS
Returns to Toronto
Excerpts from National Post
TORONTO -- Health officials announced the deaths of
two more elderly SARS patients Wednesday. ''It is
with some regret that I wish to advise all of you
that two individuals have passed away with SARS-like
symptoms overnight,'' Dr. Colin D'Cunha told an afternoon
news conference. D'Cunha, Ontario's chief medical
officer of health, said they were both elderly women
over the age of 65.
That brings the number of deaths to 29 since the outbreak
hit the city in March.
Ontario now has 12 active probable cases of SARS,
with the patients being treated in hospital. As of
Wednesday, 232 people have been discharged or recovered
from the outbreaks.
More than 1,700 students and teachers at a(Catholic)
high school in Markham, north of Toronto, were sent
into quarantine Wednesday after it was learned that
a Grade 11 student attended classes for three days
with symptoms of SARS.
The SARS outbreak in Toronto began when a woman who
travelled to Hong Kong in February contracted the
disease there.
The 78-year-old woman was hospitalized at Scarborough
Grace Hospital in Toronto where she died in early
March, but not before the disease had spread to several
other people there, including patients and health-care
workers.
Thousands of people were subsequently quarantined
as health officials scrambled to contain the outbreak.
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Comparing
Dangers in Canada
:: SARS 27 deaths to date
:: SPANISH FLU 1918-1919 230,000-500,000 deaths
:: NORMAL FLU 500-1,500 yearly
:: CANCER Kills about 65,300 per year
:: FIREARMS Kills about 65,300 per year
:: CAR
ACCIDENTS Killed about 3,000 in the year 20
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A
Toronto "reference family" of fourtwo adults,
two children needs $27,343/ year (OneLakh) to stave
off poverty
The federal government provided new ammunition yesterday
for the ongoing debate over what constitutes poverty
in Canada. Its new Market Basket Measure defines a
minimum acceptable standard of living represented
by a basket of goods and services and determines how
much that basket would cost in various Canadian cities.
See: http://www.goacom.com/news/news2003/may/msg00089.html |
Ontario
Premier says if he is re-elected his government will
require new immigrants to live outside the Greater
Toronto Area
During a pre-election
visit to Kingston, Premier Eves said that Ontario
should have the same power as neighbouring Quebec
to select immigrants with the skills it needs and
then ask them to live outside the Toronto area for
up to five years. See:
http://www.goacom.com/news/news2003/may/msg00072.html |
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