The Public health officials of Canada linked 6 deaths to the bad quality of meat. The outbreak of a deadly bacterial disease is expected to come from tainted ready-to-eat meat produced by Maple Leaf Foods. The director-general of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is investigating the matter.

Two people are found suffered from dangerous ailment Listeriosis. It is a sort of food poisoning which can adversely hit the elderly, newborns, pregnant women and people with chronic medical conditions. The detectable symbols of disease are fever, headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea.

New Delhi, Aug 25 : Fifteen of Canada’s elite universities are in India to hold information sessions on Canada as a destination for higher education.

The delegation is led by Michelle Beaton of Ryerson University, Toronto, and assisted by Ginette Sanfaçon of McGill University. The delegation will be in India from August 18-28.

The sessions are being organized by the Canadian Higher Education Committee under the aegis of Council of International Schools (CIS) and have been held in Bangalore, Mumbai, Pune and Delhi. It is Council’s fourth consecutive tour to India.

Kabul - Three Canadian soldiers were killed and another was wounded in a roadside bombing in southern Afghanistan, officials said Friday.

The soldiers, who were serving under the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), were in a vehicle when it was struck Wednesday by the bomb in the Zherai district of Kandahar province, the Canadian military said.

Kandahar/ Ottawa, Aug 18 : The Taliban have threatened Canada that it will launch attacks like last week if the Canadian troops didn’t pull out of Afghanistan. Several Canadian aid workers were gunned down near Kabul last week by unidentified militants.

In an letter written to the Canada Government, the Taliban warned that if its troops continued to stay in Afghanistan, they would kill them.

The recent report presented by Ontario Medical Association has shown that that the increasing amount of pollution will take several lives in Canada.

Researchers did a national analysis to asses the impact of smoke on public health. Researchers also claim that increasing pollution will also adversely affect the national economy. Researchers used a model to calculate the number of deaths and health care costs.

Two infants were admitted in hospital in Lethbridge under suspicion of flesh-eating disease. These infants were than transferred to Calgary. Dr. Richard Musto said that reports of these children have shown absence of the organism necrotizing fasciitis.

He dispelled all the fear related to spread of this disease in children. He added that these two cases were mere coincidence.