The hospital has started an internal investigation as to what went wrong in the case of Laurie Johnston of Leamington, Ontario. Another patient of the hospital is Janice Laporte. She heard about the incident through publicity, and she came forward and said the same thing happened to her nine years ago. She had her surgery to remove her breast and was told a week after the surgery that she didn’t have cancer. The hospital did not know about the situation with Janice Laporte until she went to the media about it. There were also five more cases involving patients of Dr. Heartwell in which the pathology reports showed errors.

After this news broke, the hospital has been inundated with calls from former patients of the hospital who had Dr. Heartwell as their surgeon. They want to know if the same thing happened to them-whether their breast or breasts were really cancerous. The hospital had set up a hotline for concerned patients to call.

The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario are doing research involving the pathologist, Dr. Olive Williams and Dr. Barbara Heartwell. These investigations usually take from 3 to 10 months to complete, but if the findings prove that these doctors were incompetent, a disciplinary hearing would be held to determine their fate.

Both doctors have been suspended from their duties until further notice.

Police officers will no longer simply be letting drivers off with a warning as they have been doing for the past three months. Instead they will start fully enforcing the provisions of Bill 118, or Ontario’s Countering Distracted Driving law which went into effect Oct. 26.

The law is designed to enhance road safety by making it illegal for drivers to talk, text, type, or e-mail using a hand-held device when driving. The legislation also prohibits the viewing of DVDs or other displays that are not directly related to driving. Drivers can however continue using hands-free headsets, such as Bluetooth devices for making or receiving calls. They will be allowed to use hand-held phones for making emergency 911 calls.

Drivers of emergency vehicles and certain commercial vehicles will also be allowed to use hand-held devices under some circumstances.

Though the law was formally passed in October, Ontario’s Provincial Police allowed a three-month grace period for drivers to get accustomed to the law. During that time, the OPP have issued more than 3,000 warnings to drivers, but did not impose fines on anyone caught driving with a hand held device.

Starting Feb. 1 that grace period is formally over. The OPP has cautioned that from that day on, they will begin to aggressively enforce the provisions of the law in a bid to cut down on what they say is the growing danger posed by drivers chatting on phones or texting on them while also traveling at high speeds.

Winter storm warning in effect for the City of Toronto and southern Ontario including:

Ottawa, Gatineau, Brockville, Leeds and Grenville, Prescott and Russell, Cornwall, Morrisburg, Smiths Falls, Lanark, Sharbot Lake, Renfrew, Pembroke, Belleville, Quinte, Northumberland, Kingston, Prince Edward County, Peterborough, Stirling, Tweed, South Frontenac, Bancroft, Bon Echo Park, Barry’s Bay, Haliburton and Algonquin.
Snow associated with this system will begin late this afternoon in Southwestern Ontario, in the evening in Toronto and reach the national Capital region just before dawn on Wednesday.

Strong easterly winds near 60 km/h will accompany the snow tonight and Wednesday significantly lowering visibilities in blowing snow. Periods of heavy snow are also likely. Snow amounts will range from 10 to 15 centimetres with 20 centimetres or more towards Ottawa Valley. Lesser amounts are likely along the shore of Western Lake Ontario as snow could be wet.

Snow will end or change to rain from west to east through the day Wednesday.

More statements or warnings will be issued as the storm nears.

A hands free cell phone unit might cost you eighty bucks.

Getting caught talking on the phone without one while you’re driving could cost you a $500 fine.

As of now, Ontario is officially a “hands free” phone zone for drivers.

Over the next three months, police will try to educate drivers to the new regulation. From February 1 fines up of up to $500 will be imposed on offending drivers.

Ontario becomes the fourth Canadian province to ban cell phones in the hands of its drivers after Quebec, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador.

In what was initially thought to be an act of vandalism, a police investigation has found that an SUV in Grimsby, Ontario, was in fact struck by a small fragment of a meteorite.

The vehicle’s owners, the Garchinski family, found that it’s windshield had been cracked and that the offending stone had damaged the hood and the garage door on it’s downward trajectory, and the residents initially assumed that it had been thrown by a vandal, prompting a call to police.

“I thought it was vandalism for sure,” Tony told a phalanx of reporters crowded onto the driveway of his Leawood Dr. home yesterday. “Who thinks a meteorite is going to crash-land on your car?”

However, the stone was very unusual in it’s immense density and odd coloring, prompting the Garchinskis to save it as a curiosity.

Several days after the car was damaged, Ms. Garchinski saw a news broadcast on a recent meteorite event in which a particularly large rock in space had entered the atmosphere over the Ontario sky and largely burned up, however local scientists still hoped to find small fragments of the rock in the Grimsby area. Ms. Ms. Garchinski noticed that the meteorites presented in the broadcast were very similar in appearance and physical properties to the rock which had struck her vehicle.

“They’re probably the oldest rocks that you or I or just about anyone else will ever hold,” said a grinning McCausland, carefully gripping black-coated space pebble in a gloved hand. “We’re talking 4.6 billion years old.”

This also helped to explain the large amount of damage done by the rock, which seemed to indicate that it was traveling much faster than anyone might be able to throw.

She called the University of Western Ontario, and just from the description of the rock the University felt that it was worth sending out an investigative team of researchers to inspect the stone and the damage it had caused.

The researchers had no difficulty determining that it was a meteorite, as it’s composition was unlike any rock on earth and extremely similar to known meteorites.

Because it landed on their property, the meteorite belongs to the Garchinskis, however they have lent it to the University of Western Ontario for several weeks to permit it to be studied.

It has already become one of the world’s most extensively studied meteorites, as scientists carefully pick and probe at it with the most advanced devices available, eager to gather as much data as possible while they still can.

The data gathered is so extensive that scientists have already narrowed down it’s most likely orbit.

The Garchinskis are unsure what they will do with the meteorite when it is returned, however, it’s small size (45g) indicates that it will only be worth a few hundred dollars if sold.

Reeves has adamantly denied even knowing Sala let along fathering her children.

The DNA test results are in and it has been confirmed that he is not the father.

Sala wants to dispute the test so the story will continue.

Reeves’ lawyer Lorne Wolfson said in a statement “If [Sala] wants to challenge it, let her go right ahead. But we are confident that the DNA testing was done properly and that the results are sound.”

Sala was looking for child support payments of $150,000 per month retroactive to 1988 of her four children who are now all adults and spousal support of $3 million per month dating back to 2006.

At a time when Ontario is trying to attract tourists, surfers from around the world can now sail the streets of several cities in southern Ontario from their personal computers with Google Street View.

Google’s Street View feature for Google Maps, enables users to see certain parts of several big cities through panoramic images,

Google Street View is available in many Ontario cities including, Toronto, Hamilton, Kitchener-Waterloo and Ottawa.

In Canada, almost 50 000 kilometers of streets can be virtually furrowed: in addition to Ontario cities, the service covers the cities of Vancouver, Whistler, Squamish, Banff, Calgary, Montreal, Quebec and Halifax.

The launch was done in conjunction with various tourism agencies and property, as Heritage Toronto, Montreal and Tourism Tourism British Columbia.

Google promises that other Canadian cities will soon be added to its service.

When it comes up on a Google Map, users need only click a character yellow and drag to the place he wants to see. A photo of the street at 360 degrees, appears.

In response to concerns in regard to privacy, Google said that the faces of people in these pictures are blurred.

Google began in 2007 to take images of the Canadian cities placed online Wednesday.

Google Street View is currently available in 14 countries: Australia, Canada, Spain, the United States, France, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Netherlands, Portugal, Czech Republic, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Taiwan.

In this case, involving the appointment of the new Dean of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies at York University, an anonymous e-mail was sent to the president of the university. This e-mail claimed that the new dean had misrepresented his credentials, and that the president of the university had committed academic fraud. It turns out that the statements in the e-mail were not slanderous, yet to protect the right of the individual to pursue litigation in circumstances that could possibly be slanderous, the court ruled in favor of the university.

The court ordered Google, as well as two other large telecommunications companies to reveal the identities of the individuals that had access to the e-mail account. The e-mail was not even entirely anonymous. One professor, David Noble was listed in the e-mail as a contact person for a group of concerned faculty. It is clear that the university could have targeted Professor Noble in court for libel. Instead, they pursued all people connected with the e-mail account. Professor Noble contends that the university was using this legal action to keep the faculty in check.

Megan Fox, the sexy star of “Transformers,” has a new role to add to her “body” of work.

“Jennifer’s Body” opened at the Toronto International Film Festival this week to rave reviews. In it, Fox plays a sexy, satanic high school vixen that hungers for male flesh. Her hunger leads to many gory, but strangely seductive, scenes of Fox/Jennifer devouring her male prey.

But Fox downplays the sexual aspects of the film. At a press conference yesterday at the Park Hyatt Hotel in Toronto, Fox told reporters that “Jennifer’s Body” is not about sex, but sex is what draws attention.

Fox should know.

A few months ago, topless pictures of Fox (as Jennifer) were leaked to the Internet. The photos attracted a lot of attention to Fox—and to “Jennifer’s Body.”

But the 23-Year-old Fox says that she wants to expand her career beyond the sex symbol label. Karyn Kusama, who directed “Jennifer’s Body,” thinks that this film may help her to do just that. At the press conference, she told reporters that Fox showed her acting range in “Jennifer’s Body.”

“Jennifer’s Body,” is slated for national release next Friday.

Megan Fox caused a frenzy on the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) red carpet last night for the premiere of her new horror movie Jennifer’s Body.

The actor has been in Toronto for a few days now.

What has she been up to while in the city?

“Um, I went to Holt Refrew and yeah, I had some good sushi and some italian food, and I’ve been eating a lot, and uh, just sort of sightseeing,” Fox said in an interview with Much Music.

As for Jennifer’s Body, Megan said she couldn’t really relate to her character as the most popular girl in high school.

“I wasn’t popular, I didn’t have a lot of friends, I was kind of an outcast,” she told us. “A rebel, perhaps. Sort of, yeah, definitely that.”

Megan is often vocal about liking both guys and girls, adding: “Igo both ways.”

But according to her, she felt no attraction to her co-star Amanda Seyfried though.

“We were just friends and it was not ever like that at all,” said Fox.

Speaking of Ms. Seyfriend, she and Megan share a passionate kiss in the flick. But Amanda doesn’t have the fondest memories of her moment with Megan.

“Yeah it’s interesting, I mean a girl-on-girl kiss, you know, I mean we both used our tongues … but it was uncomfortable,” Amanda said.

The movie’s writer Diablo Cody – who also wrote Juno – says that Jennifer’s Body isn’t reflective of her own time in high school.

“I had a nice time,” Diablo said. “I didn’t sink my teeth into anyone’s carotid artery, huhuh.”