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Manitoba won't escape economic woes: Ignatieff (Winnipeg Free Press)
THE shock that the country is actually headed into a deficit despite massive surpluses and debt repayments just a few years ago, was a hot topic at a forum with Liberal leadership hopeful Michael Ignatieff in Winnipeg Saturday. "We're in a deficit right now because this government spent the seed corn. They threw away (the surplus) in good times," Ignatieff told a crowd of Liberal supporters.

Canadian politics: The definition of 'meh' (Ottawa Citizen)
A disgruntled Canadian voter expressing boredom about the recent federal election will have that feeling immortalized in the Collins English Dictionary.

Canada doesn't need more 'Rae Daze' - COLUMN (The Sault Star)
With just about everyone in Ottawa - including Prime Minister Stephen Harper ? apparently in agreement that Canada needs to go into deficit to fight [...]

Hawksley Workman (Hour.ca)
Hawksley Workman is a man not easily labelled. Musically, the singer/songwriter's mix of folky and glammy rock can't easily be pinned down. Yet on a personal level, he's a man who speaks his mind and knows what he wants.

Peter Milliken retains position as House Speaker (CTV.ca)
Liberal MP Peter Milliken has once again been elected as Speaker of the House, beating out seven other candidates after five ballots of secret voting.

Grit bickering grows old fast (Chatham Daily News)
At a time when the party needs to show both openness and solidarity, the federal Liberals could pull off neither on the weekend. The Ontario [...]

Role models honoured (Windsor Star)
Despite the recent emergence of high-profile U.S. political candidates such as Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin, there's still a dearth of female candidates in Canadian politics, largely because it's still seen as an old boys' network, says a CBC journalist and former news anchor at CBC Windsor.

Ex-Harvard scholar enters Liberal leadership race (The Charlotte Observer)
(By ROB GILLIES, Associated Press Writer) A former human rights professor at Harvard University on Thursday entered the leadership race for Canada's once-dominant Liberal Party, which lost badly at the polls during national elections last month. Michael Ignatieff left a prestigious post in 2005 as director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard to enter Canadian politics, only to ...

Ex-Harvard scholar enters Liberal leadership race (The State)
A former human rights professor at Harvard University on Thursday entered the leadership race for Canada's once-dominant Liberal Party, which lost badly at the polls during national elections last month. Michael Ignatieff left a prestigious post in 2005 as director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard to enter Canadian politics, only to lose the leadership position the next year ...

Ex-Harvard scholar enters Liberal leadership race (AP via Yahoo! News)
A former human rights professor at Harvard University on Thursday entered the leadership race for Canada's once-dominant Liberal Party, which lost badly at the polls during national elections last month.

Chronic Health News

Miss. inmate deaths near top (The Clarion-Ledger)
State prisoners in Mississippi are sick and dying at one of the highest rates in the nation.

Easy steps to weather flu, colds (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette)
Ultimate cold and flu survival kit: ?Soap and hand sanitizer. Look for hand sanitizers that contain at least 65 percent ethanol or isopropanol. ?Warm salt water for gargling or throat lozenges or spray to ease sore-throat pain.

Intel Announces Its First Home Medical Device In The United Kingdom To Better Connect Clinicians With Patients (Medical News Today)
Intel Corporation today announced the Intel® Health Guide, a care management tool designed for healthcare professionals who treat patients with chronic conditions, for the UK. The Intel Health Guide represents Intel's entry into a new category of personal health systems that go beyond the simple remote patient monitoring systems available today.

School Nurses Have Come Along Way (The Morning News)
Colorful, loose-fitting pants and tops have replaced starched, crisp white uniforms.

Philippine leader heads to summit (AP via Yahoo! News)
Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo departed Saturday for Los Angeles from Osaka, where her plane made an emergency landing in Japan the previous day after her husband fell ill on board, according to media reports.

Philippine leader's plane makes emergency landing (AP via Yahoo! News)
Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's plane made an emergency landing in Japan on Friday after her husband fell ill on board, officials said.

Americans Skip Care (New York Times)
More than half of Americans with chronic health problems skip pills and doctors? appointments because of their costs, according to a new survey.

Many find pneumonia shots to be confusing (Billings Gazette)
Administered properly, pneumonia vaccine can protect a vulnerable immune system against dangerous infection.

Arroyo's husband in stable condition (Sun Star)
TOKYO -- First Gentleman Mike Arroyo is now in stable condition after suffering a heart attack while en route to Lima, Peru with President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.

Philippine leader heads to summit (Las Vegas Sun)
Fri, Nov 21, 2008 (7:57 p.m.) Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo departed Saturday for Los Angeles from Osaka, where her plane made an emergency landing in Japan the previous day after her husband fell ill on board, according to media reports.