Unpublished Newswire

Over the next five years, every patient treated at Canada’s largest cancer centre will have the opportunity to undergo genomic testing to see if major hereditary health risks lurk in their DNA. The Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto announced Thursday that it would become the first Canadian hospital to join a cross-border collaboration involving 15 hospitals in the United States and Helix, Inc., a private American genomics company, that together plan to sequence the exomes of 1.6 million patients.

While Torontonians are evenly split on their mayor’s handling of the job, the proportion who strongly disapprove of Olivia Chow’s performance is rising, according to a new Leger poll. Older Torontonians also feel differently than younger ones about Chow’s performance. The poll found that as many Metro Toronto residents generally approve (43 per cent) or disapprove (43 per cent) of the way Chow has managed the city’s affairs. In a June...