Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang opened the South African Aids exhibition to a background of brightly coloured displays at the International Aids Conference in Toronto, Canada, on Sunday. The exhibition showcases garlic, lemon and beetroot. The minister will be in Toronto until Thursday.
The power to prevent HIV should be put in the hands of women, who depend on men to use a condom and can’t always choose to abstain, Bill Gates told thousands of delegates to the International Aids Conference in Toronto on Sunday. ”We need tools that will allow women to protect themselves,” Gates said.
World number one Roger Federer fended off a tenacious challenge from Fernando Gonzalez on Saturday, downing the 15th-seeded Chilean 6-1, 5-7, 6-3 to reach the Toronto Masters Series final. It wasn’t exactly the Federer Express, but the top-seeded Swiss finally chugged into his 17th straight ATP final — a streak dating back to his semifinal exit at Roland Garros in 2005.
Roger Federer battled through to the Toronto Masters semifinals with a 7-6 6-7 6-3 win over Xavier Malisse on Friday. Playing his first event since claiming his fourth consecutive Wimbledon title, the world number one has yet to slip into a comfortable rhythm and for the second consecutive night was taken to three sets.
Good nutrition could be the only available life-prolonging alternative to people living with HIV/Aids in rural areas, a senior officer for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation said on Thursday. He said the South African Department of Health can ”do more and do better” when it comes to fighting HIV/Aids.
Top seed Roger Federer and number four Ivan Ljubicic swept through into the third round while American James Blake fell flat to exit on an off-day at the Toronto Masters on Wednesday. Federer, playing his first event since winning his fourth straight Wimbledon title a month ago, rolled over Frenchman Sebastien Grosjean 6-3, 6-3.
Louise Simone Bennett-Coverly, a Jamaican poet and folklorist who popularised her country’s culture before its independence from Britain, died on July 27. She was 86. Known in her native Caribbean country as ”Miss Lou”, Bennett-Coverly advocated the teaching of Jamaican culture.
Top-seeded Swiss Roger Federer, playing for the first time since he captured a fourth straight Wimbledon title, picked up where he left off on Tuesday with a first-round victory in the Toronto Masters Series. Second-seeded Spaniard Rafael Nadal defeated Chile’s Nicolas Massu 6-3, 6-2.
A company that sells software to correct irritating internet spelling mistakes has reissued its latest news release to correct a minor snafu. ”It’s very embarrassing,” said Pat Brink, public relations consultant for the Toronto-based company. ”I made the mistake, not TextTrust — they do a much better job, It’s certainly egg on the face of this public relations person.”
At least 10 suspects were arrested in the Toronto area on Friday on terrorism-related charges, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said. The Canadian Press quoted an unnamed police source as saying the charges were related to an explosives plot in Ontario, Canada’s largest province.
A new documentary film screened this week in Toronto about author Dan Brown’s hugely popular The Da Vinci Code reveals a widespread dissatisfaction with organised religion, the director told Agence France-Presse. ”This was a spiritual road trip, a search for meaning,” said Emmy award-winning veteran director Jonathan Stack at the packed screening of his film Secrets of the Code.
The curtain rose in Toronto on Thursday night on an epic musical adaptation of The Lord of the Rings that has taken four years to produce, features 55 actors, 500 pieces of armour and 17 elevators, and cost about -million — making it almost certainly the most expensive stage production in history.
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Stephen Harper has been sworn in as Canada’s Prime Minister, marking the first time in more than a decade that the Conservative Party will rule in this traditionally liberal nation. He has pledged to clean up government corruption and revive relations with the United States.
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The Toronto zoo has recovered a red panda that had escaped its pen and evaded capture for more than a month by blending in with Canada’s colourful red maple leaves, officials said on Friday. The nine-year-old animal was found by a gardener this week sitting in a tree about 2km away, healthy, but a bit thinner.
Health officials were still struggling on Thursday to discover an unknown virus that claimed 16 lives at a Toronto retirement home in recent weeks, according to officials. ”We’re still trying to find the source of the outbreak,” said a spokesperson for the Toronto Public Health Authority. ”And, we may never know. In almost half of such cases the actual strain is never identified.”
The first sign that something might be amiss came when the plane lifted abruptly into the air after the captain aborted his first attempt to touch down. The cabin fell gradually silent as the jetliner regained height and circled above the airport for several minutes.
Passengers who survived a plane crash on an Air France jet headed for Toronto have described their panic and confusion on Wednesday morning as the plane burst into flames after skidding off the runway into a ravine. All 297 passengers survived the crash on Tuesday night.
Television cameras captured dramatic images of an Air France passenger jet in flames moments after the packed plane apparently skidded off a runway and fell into a ravine on Tuesday night. Steve Shaw, a vice-president of the Greater Toronto Airport Authority, said there were no fatalities among the 297 passengers and 12 crew on board the plane.
An Air France passenger jet skidded off the end of the runway and burst into flames after landing in a thunderstorm at Toronto’s Pearson International airport on Tuesday, media reports said. There were up to 200 passengers on the jet on the Paris-Toronto flight, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and other media.
Canada became the third country to legalise gay marriage on Tuesday, as Parliament passed landmark legislation allowing same-sex civil unions despite strong opposition from Conservatives and religious leaders. The Netherlands and Belgium are the only other nations that allow gay marriage nationwide.
Canadian doctors on Monday embarked on an intricate operation to separate conjoined twin boys from Zimbabwe. Tinashe and Tinotenda were joined at the abdomen and share a liver, and have been treated at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children since late last year.
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Dane Squires was late for his own funeral. At least it seemed that way after people gathered on Thursday at a Toronto funeral home to mourn the retired welder, whom they believed had been hit by a train. Relatives were watching the casket being loaded into a hearse when his daughter was told she had an important phone call.
The escaped killer of a Mozambican journalist who exposed the country’s biggest bank fraud has requested refugee status in Canada, a Justice Ministry official said on Tuesday. Officials in Mozambique earlier said that Anibal Antonio dos Santos, alias Anibalzinho, was arrested by Interpol at Toronto airport.
Mississauga Indians, who once owned the land Toronto now sits on, say they should have been paid more than the 10 shillings they got in 1805 — and Ottawa has its cheque book open.
Films in the future will reflect the world’s greater state of confusion and uncertainty following last year’s September 11 attacks, say a group of European filmmakers.
The environmental and social costs of closing and rehabilitating old and abandoned mines around the world are likely in the trillions of dollars.
Canada’s health department confirmed on Thursday that the death of a Saskatchewan man is the first case in the country of the new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), a strain of mad cow disease.
The mining industry moved to put another nail in the coffin of its swashbuckling past, opening a major conference designed give it a kinder, gentler and greener face.