at 00:00 on May 18, 2012, EDT.

Quality of life across Canada depends on where you live, says study

Canadians are used to hearing their country ranks among the world's best places to live, but new research suggests that quality of life can depend a lot on where you live.

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at 19:08 on May 17, 2012, EDT.

Bus beheader Vince Li wins right to escorted trips into community

WINNIPEG - A man who beheaded and cannibalized a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus in Manitoba has won his bid to leave the grounds of the mental hospital where he is being kept.

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at 15:17 on May 17, 2012, EDT.

Doctors ditching the prescription pad as more than a third of prescriptions now are electronic

WASHINGTON - Dropping a paper prescription at the drugstore is becoming old-school: More than a third of the nation's prescriptions now are electronic, according to the latest count.

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at 15:15 on May 17, 2012, EDT.

Ethics panel debates how to develop child protections against anthrax, other bioterror threats

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is asking a presidential commission to help decide an ethical quandary: Should the anthrax vaccine and other treatments being stockpiled in case of a bioterror attack be tested in children?

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at 10:06 on May 17, 2012, EDT.

Nova Scotia announces details of review of Halifax psychiatric facility

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's Health Department has released details of a review of a Halifax psychiatric facility that released a patient who was later charged in a fatal assault.

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at 20:15 on May 16, 2012, EDT.

Hockey players on ice for 11 days best world record in fundraiser for cancer

CHESTERMERE, Alta. - Lyall Marshall pushed harder through the pain, the numb toes and utter exhaustion whenever he saw his daughter's dimpled smile through the Plexiglas.

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