Advocate honoured
Although Tanys Quesnel died six years ago, the work she did to help London adults with disabilities continues today.

Centre marks decade of help
It's a beacon that brings them home.

Support group for injured workers educates, informs afflicted
Jim Gould was surprised to find a city London's size did not have a single independent support group for injured or diseased workers while smaller Ontario cities such as Sarnia and Barrie had at least two or three.

Law students assist charities
Putting up a Web site devoted to environmental resources was a little trickier than expected for members of Global Action Plan London.

CANOE: Money

Energy stocks ignite investor enthusiasm
Recent comments by U.S. Federal Reserve chairperson Alan Greenspan about the perceived tightening in the long-term demand and supply balances of natural gas, has re-ignited investor enthusiasm for Canadian and the U.S. energy stocks.

Bears in full retreat as markets climb
Stocks have rallied 21 per cent in the U.S. and 11 per cent in Canada since my bullish equity comments March 10.

Buffet's an expert on derivatives
Billionaire investor Warren Buffet is not only one the richest men in the world, he's also one the shrewdest investors to confront Wall Street.

Fund managers need new playbook
Canadian mutual fund managers need to take a hard look at the methodologies they are employing to manage billions of dollars of investor's money and opt for an approach based on absolute versus relative returns.

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More Wealth Manager columns by Neil Murray

TODAY'S BUSINESS LAW: Privacy an issue of rights
A judge recently put a stop to a photographer selling pictures of well-known figure skaters Jamie Sale and David Pelletier.

TODAY'S BUSINESS LAW: DVD piracy poses a dilemma
Twentieth-century copyright law and 21st-century technology are clashing once again, this time in a courtroom in San Francisco.

Limitation law reformed
The Limitations Act of 2002 significantly shortens the time in which a person can sue another in the province.

Free sharing of online music files continues
A judge in Los Angeles recently dismissed almost all of an action launched on behalf of the record industry and movie studios against online file-swapping services Morpheus and Grokster.

Companies need policies on privacy in business
All businesses in Canada must comply with the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act by January 2004.

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More business law columns by David Canton

Trojan lands major deal
Trojan Technologies has landed the final contract to battle a groundwater pollution problem that has shut down six wells in a Los Angeles-area community.

CAS reaches tentative deal
London-Middlesex Children's Aid Society workers, who were on the verge of being able to strike, reached a tentative agreement with their employer yesterday.

Workers angry at company, union
Former workers at Canada Bread are calling for a boycott of Dempster's food products as they fight for a better severance package.

Diamond trainer top 10 all-time
London's Diamond Aircraft manufactures one of the top 10 training aircraft in aviation history, a prestigious U.S. flight magazine says.

Alliance helps disabled prove their abilities
London area employers have recently been on the receiving end of high praise from the Employment Alliance, a local non-profit group of 15 member agencies.

London records job losses in health
The London area lost about 2,000 health-care and social assistance jobs last month.

THE CITY: Raise wage or kill job hopes
Critics say if we do it, we'll kill jobs. I figure if we don't, we'll kill hope.

Leadership begins with personal responsibility
"Everything rises and falls on leadership."

London companies in top 500
Three London companies have cracked a listing of Canada's largest corporations.

'There's been a surge'
At the Health Network, there's a Zen room with Japanese writing on the wall, a Mediterranean room with ocean waves and a serene western room with native art.

Joining the job hunt
Erin Schned is a second-year student at the University of Western Ontario.

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FYI London's Careers guide

Parkwood gets spinal cord research boost
London's Parkwood Hospital Foundation is trying to fill Canada's first scientific research chair in rehabilitation and geriatric care after 3 1/2 years of fundraising.

St. Joe's demands mental health action
St. Joseph's Health Care London has gone public with complaints the province is dragging its feet on implementing mental health-care reform, including getting psychiatric patients out of institutions.

Heart attack survivors give rescuers heartfelt thanks
When Theresa Griffin went to Goodwill last November in search of bargains, she found more goodwill than good deals.

London holds on to health ranking
London hospitals are holding their own in quality of care compared to other cities, a just-released ranking shows.

Robarts aims to peer inside lungs
Researchers at London's Robarts Research Institute are developing a way to look inside lungs, a multimillion- dollar project that could help find new and better treatments for asthma and allergies.

When baby screams
It's a weekend and your baby is crying. You don't know whether it's colic or illness or what. Who do you call?

Fire strikes LHSC X-ray lab
Two floors of London Health Sciences Centre's university campus were evacuated after a fire yesterday in an X-ray lab.

Mosquito war heats up across area
A second front in the battle to control virus-carrying mosquitoes was opened yesterday when applicators began dumping larvicide into the first of 65,000 sewer catch basins in London and Middlesex.

Boy, 7, tested for West Nile
A seven-year-old Walpole Island boy is being tested for the West Nile virus, the London region's first scare of the year from the illness.

Wanted doctor may be living overseas
A London doctor who fled to escape prosecution may be living overseas.

Lucky to be alive
Wayne Delanghe survived a 24-metre fall off a Chatham grain elevator in 1999, only to contemplate suicide after his recovery.

War on W. Nile mosquito begins
Armed with hoses, pellets and protective uniforms, workers yesterday began their battle to head off mosquitoes that could carry the deadly West Nile virus.

Mosquito control plan starts
The Middlesex-London Health Unit today begins a larviciding program aimed at controlling mosquitoes that could spread the West Nile virus in the community this summer.

THE SMOKING DEBATE: Smoking ban a drag for ailing vets
At 85, Ralph Hammond doesn't have a lot of pleasures left in life.

Bosses told to take action on virus
With the sweltering days of summer fast approaching, employers have to know their legal obligations for protecting workers from West Nile virus.

Elgin smoking bylaws under fire
A move to toughen smoking bylaws in St. Thomas and Elgin County begins tomorrow.

Mad cow crisis felt in region
A dead cow more than 3,000 kilometres from London caused chaos at border crossings yesterday, devastated area livestock markets and left local cattle farmers holding their breath waiting to see if they still have a financial future.

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CANOE: C-Health
Your health and wellness source

CANOE: Lifewise: Mirrors: Body and Mind

Melanoma can't wait to be caught
June is summer tune-up time.

West Nile virus panic endemic
You can run, but you can't hide.

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More Your Health columns by Marilyn Linton

Post-traumatic stress can respond to treatment
DEAR DR. GOLDEN: I recently had a terrible experience.

Mature students can benefit from education
DEAR DR. GOLDEN: I am trying to decide whether to go back to school.

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More Shrink Rap advice columns by psychologist Dr. Gail Golden

Schools' rank misleading, say board, psychologist
Two London schools came out on top of the Fraser Institute's ranking of Ontario's elementary schools, but school board officials aren't rejoicing.

School board's golf project helps kids take swing at life
Leanne Tavares, a Grade 6 special- needs pupil, walks to the back of a golf cart and pulls out an iron.

School board tries to tackle divisions
Trustees on the Thames Valley District school board are attempting to patch the divisions left over from the 1998 amalgamation that created the board.

Groups lobby for school board funding
The public got their say about the preliminary, $580-million budget for the Thames Valley District school board last night.

CCH student wins excellence award
Genevieve Mortera's trips to her homeland have made her an advocate for social justice.

Universities await replies from applicants
Tensions are high among university officials as they wait to see if their best guess about enrolment was close.

'It's a real pressure cooker'
Kyle Johansen is so desperate to get into university, he jokes he's willing to eat Kraft Dinner for a year to pay for it.

School board budget passes easily, early
The London District Catholic school board approved its $160.6-million budget last night, two weeks ahead of the deadline.

Researcher urges schools to stop selling junk food
Area public schools should stop selling chocolate bars and junk food to raise funds, says a London researcher who led a study on obesity among schoolchildren.

Trustees say new funds not enough
If the Ontario government wants small and rural schools to survive, it will have to ante up the cash, says the Thames Valley District school board.

Catholic schools budget up 4.3 per cent
Special education was the big winner last night as the London District Catholic school board posted a $160.6-million preliminary budget, up 4.3 per cent from last year.

Baha'i school to buy Weldon
A school dedicated to Baha'i-inspired religious principles is set to take over Weldon Park Academy, slated to close at the end of the month.

Web site lets parents take kids' attendance
Playing hooky has become a lot tougher at London's John Paul II high school since technology turned parents into Big Brother.

London teacher rewarded for TV-based curriculum
It's clear the extra hours London teacher Marc Hodgkinson puts into developing creative lessons is time well spent.

Pupils wired into computers
These kids are wired.

Stage set to close 60-pupil school
The Thames Valley District school board has decided to close a small Tillsonburg school.

School board budgets increase of 6%
For the first time in years, the Thames Valley District school board will have the luxury of debating where to spend its budget dollars -- instead of where to cut them.

Up to boards to look after succession
Once the purview of old boys and golfing buddies, the corporate board of directors is now being called upon to do real, tough work and businesses have to get the right team in place to do the job, a business conference heard yesterday.

Empress to be French school
After more than 75 years as an English elementary school in London, the Thames Valley District school board decided last night to convert Empress public school into a French immersion school.

Tax credit proposal upsetting to many
The provincial government will double the tax credit for parents who send their kids to private schools from 10 per cent to 20 per cent for 2003 and if the Tories are re-elected and the legislation goes ahead, the tax credit will be worth 50 per cent by 2006.

United Way announces money split
Twenty-six agencies will receive funding increases from the United Way this year as they share the proceeds of a record-breaking 2002 campaign.