Health Canada has given commendation for the first human clinical tests for a new male contraceptive device, which is said to be as effectual as a surgical contraception but that is completely reversible.

The birth control device is known as the Intra Vas Device. It is made up of two tiny, supple and hollow silicon plugs, each about one millimetre in diameter and one-and-a-half centimetres long.

Winnipeg: Canadian veterinary functionaries stated that they have detected the H7N3 strain of avian influenza on a Saskatchewan farm, but pointed out the virus was not the lethal strain, which researchers fear could result in the next flu plague.

Canadian singer, Celine Dion seems ready for bit of a gloom in her career as she plans to join former ‘Evanescence’ stars - Ben Moody and David Hodges in her studio.
 
The move came after her post-Las Vegas recording career.
 
For the singer's comeback studio album, the rockers will write and produce new song ‘This Time’, reported Contactmusic.
 
After performing as an artist-in-residence at Caesar's Palace in Sin City, the rockers got a chance to be the part of Celine Dion’s album.
 

A condemned rapist who is considered at risk to reoffend was caught in Vancouver just hours after being discharged from a New Burnswick prison house on Friday.

Thane Moore has completed a 14-year prison term for beating up and sexually assaulting a 21-year old woman in Prince Edward Island.

A representative for B.C. Attorney General Wally Oppal, on Saturday affirmed that Thane was apprehended in Vancouver, hours after he left Dorchester prison at the country’s other end.

Quebec: Health Minister Tony Clement has said that Canada is ready to tackle any worldwide pandemic outbreak as a Quebec City-based influenza vaccine production facility is near completion.

Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE:GSK), owns the facility, which is in the final stages of the nearly $200-million expansion.

Clement said that in past few years the fast efforts to get ready for an outbreak have been made.