To the list of items voluntarily recalled by Siena Food Ltd., more products have been added.

Canadians have been warned by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency about not to consume Siena brand Coppa and Siena brand Prosciuttini. There are reports that they may be contaminated with Listeria.

Reports say that the products were sold in Ontario and Alberta, but there are chances that they may have been distributed nationally.

An investigation has been launched by a Windsor, Ont., hospital, after one of its renowned surgeons mistakenly performed a mastectomy on a patient who did not have cancer.

The pathology report of a patient, admitted in the hospital was misread by Barbara Heartwell, a surgeon at Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital, who performed the prescheduled mastectomy.

The patient learned of the mistake, in a follow-up appointment as the diagnosis did not match the pre-surgery pathology report which said that the tumor was benign.

Canadian soldiers injured in Afghanistan will now have a state-of-the-art virtual reality simulator helping them to recover from amputations, brain injuries and post-traumatic stress.

Ottawa Hospital Rehabilitation Centre and the Canadian Forces Health Services unveiled plans to bring a virtual reality simulator to the centre, on Thursday.

Canadian transportation company Vitran Corp reported a less quarterly loss, backed by reduced loss from operations at its less-than-truckload segment.

The company managed to reduce its net loss for the fourth quarter to $2.3 million, or 14 cents a share, compared with a loss of $79.0 million, or $5.85 a share, a year ago and increased revenue by about seven per cent over the year-earlier period, the freight carrier and Logistics Company posted on Monday.

Also, its revenue witnessed a 7 percent rise to $165.0 million.

The G7 (US, Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Canada) in a two day meeting in Canadian Artic, discussed issues ranging from the global economy, banking reform and Haiti .The G7 endorsed a US-backed effort to get the international Monetary Fund  to grant debt relief to Haiti as it struggles to recover from last month's devastating earthquake.
Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said the leaders discussed the issues related to roiling financial markets fearing that a European debt crisis could derail the global recovery.

Canada's economy witnesses an emergence of 43,000 jobs in January, triggering the unemployment rate to a nine-month low of 8.3 per cent and providing confidence that the country's employment scenario is steadily brightening.

However, analysts reveal that the figures may also point a shift toward a more stable job market, as losses in part-time positions overshadowed full-time gains last month.

The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority has extended a warning after reporting that two adults were hospitalized with an illness allegedly caused by cocaine laced with a veterinary drug.

The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority claimed two adults were recently hospitalized diagnosed with a rare illness known as neutropenia that hampers the immune system, rendering them in a state in which they are unable to fight off infections. In severe cases, if left untreated, the disease can be fatal.

Premier Ed Stelmach's government reveals that it plans to move step in consulting the public and health-care providers on a new Alberta Health Act, which is expected to be introduced this fall.

"How far did that get Ralph Klein?", the pugnacious Calgary minister asked at the time, declining to give details of his plans for reform.

Under new initiative, Canadian teens who are severely or morbidly obese mainly because of medical conditions will be offered weight-loss surgery as a treatment option.

Some kids aged between 12 and 17 years, who are obese because of brain tumors or other similar health conditions like complications that arise from Type 2 diabetes, will be offered the option of undergoing minimally invasive kind of weight-loss surgery at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children.

A latest study has revealed that about a third of Canadians live too far away from a medical facility or hospital which is specialized and provides the best available treatment for cardiovascular attacks.

The authors of the study, however, have argued that the number is pretty good when keeping in view the large and sparsely populated country where many people anyways live away from major urban regions.

Shares in Northumbrian Water have witnessed a climb of 12% following a report that the company could receive a £1.7bn takeover offer from a Canadian pension fund.

Weekend reports that the Ontario Teachers' Pension Fund would mount a full bid for the utility giant saw shares in Northumbrian rise 25p (9.67 per cent) when the FTSE 250 opened this morning.

The Canadian Dollar began Wednesday's trading session slightly higher than the value it had recorded when Tuesday's session came to a close. The currency started the session at 94.25 cents US, up 0.13 of a cent compared to the close of the previous day.

On Wednesday, the US Dollar valued in at 106.10 Canadian cents, down 0.15 of a cent.

The Montreal-based supermarket giant, Metro Inc., posted a 21 % surge in its first-quarter earnings, on Tuesday. The adjusted earnings in the last quarter, excluding one-time costs for store rebranding and tax gains, were $88.7 million or 82 cents a share.

Metro's results were ahead of many other market forecasts. Its share-price, which has almost doubled in the past five years, rose by 1.6% to $39.77.

Heather Foley Melvin, the head of Conserve Nova Scotia, does not know yet, if she will apply for a job with the agency called 'Efficiency Nova Scotia', which will be replacing Conserve Nova Scotia.

Her contract with the province will continue till June 25, 2011.

Melvin was the President of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia, from 2000 to 2002 and the Premier's Chief of Staff from February to June 2006.

Soaring gasoline prices have triggered Canada's annual inflation rate, which hit a 10-month high in December.

However, the news is unlikely to push the Bank of Canada off track in its promise to hold interest rates steady for some time.

The consumer price index witnessed a decrease of 0.3 percent in December from November, Statistics Canada said on Wednesday.