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University of Toronto experts lead the discovery of new particles at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini)

Physicists from the University of Toronto announced the discovery of more new particles at Switzerland’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at a press conference Monday in Paris.

The Canadian researchers, operating by 3,000 international colleagues, announced that subsequently rightful three months of auspicious operations different well-known particles consider been “re-discovered.”

“Perhaps most importantly, it means that the LHC is at that time the discovery machinery for the next decade,” said U of T physicist Pekka Sinervo in a press set free.

The discoveries bind physicists are in succession the right vestige to find the Higgs Boson particle, which some summon the God particle. The Higgs Boson would confirm the Standard Model exposition, and explain wherefore particles exhibit the mass they do, and how they came to be.

The scientists studying the LHC results are also hoping to understand dark matter, the mysterious real existence that dominates the world.

The results will subsist discussed further when the University of Toronto hosts the 2010 international Hadron Collider Physics Symposium.

The estate of a Windsor, Ont., woman is suing a topical pathologist, alleging she made distinguishing misprints and seeking damages of $30 million on behalf of herself and other mob pain by the agency of the physician’session mistakes.

The lawsuit, which seeks class action condition, was prompted by the case of the late Margaret Musgrave. Musgrave, who was 80 at the time, was rushed to the Hôtel-Dieu Grace Hospital in Windsor with a ruptured addendum in early 2007.

Dr. Olive Williams was given three slides of Musgrave’s appendix tissue to examine. She only looked at two and declared there was no cancer boon.

A year later, Musgrave was diagnosed with cancer that appeared to have started in her adjunct. She died in May 2008.

A subsequent investigation through the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons led to an admission from Williams that she had overlooked the third glide.

“I am at a deprivation to explain how it is that I did not examine the third slide,” she wrote to the investigator.

The College later issued her a written caution for her misconception.

Williams subsequently had her privileges at Hôtel-Dieu suspended in January after the making known of several other in earnest mistakes in her work.

An spiritual set forth by the Erie St. Clair local health integration one found that the hospital uncovered five mistakes attributed to Williams, single of which led at some unnecessary colostomy from a oppress cancer diagnosis.

A sixth sheathe — which led to an unnecessary lumpectomy — later came to light.

15,000 cases in a state of inferiority to review

Williams worked on 15,000 cases between 2003 and 2010. In joining to working at Hôtel-Dieu, she provided pathology services to Windsor Regional Hospital and Leamington District Memorial Hospital.

An internal rumor obtained by means of the Ontario Conservative Party says the hospital suggests that Williams’s cataracts, which can gravely enervate apparition, may have played a role in her diagnostic errors.

Investigators looking into pathology tests in the Windsor area are expected to deliver their tools and materials to the Ontario Minister of Health at the close of the week.

After that, the report will be publicly released. That could happen next week.

With files from the CBC’s Pat Jeflyn

Capt. Brian Bews successfully ejects from a CF-18 Hornet previous to it crashes and explodes at the Lethbridge airport put on Friday. (Ian Martens/Lethbridge Herald/Canadian Press)

The Canadian Forces pilot who ejected from a combatant jet deserved moments before it crashed and exploded suffered back injuries still is expected to create a full recovery.

“I feel extremely lucky considering the magnitude of the chance — Martin Baker is my new best friend!” before-mentioned Capt. Brian Bews, 36, in his at the outset national statement inasmuch as Friday’sitting smash in Lethbridge, Alta.

Martin Baker is the brand name of the ejection seat in the CF-18 Hornet that Bews was piloting. He was making a low-speed transfer at low altitude on a practice urgent application for the Alberta International Airshow when he had to turn out from the jet seconds before it smashed into the airstrip at the Lethbridge airport.

Capt. Brian Bews, seen in a photo taken in California in 2007, is expected to make a full recovery. (Courtesy John Wright)

Bews suffered compression fractures in three vertebrae and will be wearing a hinder part strengthen for a not many months, the Department of National Defence said Monday.

“Given the incredible amount of constrain in the ejection sequence, this type of injury is self-same common in aircrew who cashier,” said Maj. Rachel Morrell, a military surgeon. She said Bews will likely journey a full recovery except there’session no timeline on whereas he demise be adroit to return to flying duties.

“I will have existence concentrating on rest for the nearest while,” Bews said Monday. The pilot thanked first responders for their agile reaction from the crash and the staff at the Lethbridge hospital at which place he was taken.

“I would too like to thank my family, friends, my demo team and my gentle wind show family instead of their astounding support since the accident,” related Bews, who is from Eatonia, Sask.

The pilot learned how to fly in Okotoks, Alta., and joined the Canadian Forces in 1999. Five years later, he achieved his dream of being assigned to fly a CF-18 Hornet, according to Bews’sitting military biography.

The object of the sound splintering is under investigation. Bews was flying a CF-18 Hornet designated for air shows and demonstrations.

Canada’s aging fleet of CF-18s newly went through a $2.6-billion upgrade. But the Canadian government announced earlier this month that they will have existence replaced by the agency of the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter at a cost of $9 billion.

Industry Minister Tony Clement says his department is reviewing a list of copying exceptions issued by U.S. regulators. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press)

A prevalent by means of U.S. regulators that allows Americans to break certain digital locks on content and devices may throw a wrench into the Canadian government’s plan to better copyright law.

The Library of Congress, the kind of one. oversees the Copyright Office, issued a set of exceptions Monday to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the U.S. law that in clan instances makes it illegal to break digital locks inflict in place by copyright holders.

Chief among the exceptions were allowances for consumers to unlock their cellphones and to “jailbreak” them, or put whatever software they approve onto the devices.

The recommend to allow jailbreaking was strongly opposed by means of Apple in a 45-page letter sent to the Copyright Office last year. Apple, that maintains strong controls over what one. “apps” can have existence put on its iPhone, said its tight conduct was responsible for the device’s success. The company also said wireless networks could suffer “potentially catastrophic” cyber attacks by hackers armed with iPhones laden with unauthorized software.

The Library of Congress, which reviews the digital copyright law every three years, sided by an argument induce forward by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The consumer rights group argued that because that consumers had bought the iPhone, they owned it and could therefore do whatever they liked through it.

Other exemptions granted by the Library of Congress on Monday included:

• Allowing people to smash technical protections on video games to investigate or correct preservation flaws.
• Allowing college professors, film students and documentary filmmakers to dispart copy-protection measures upon the body DVDs so they have power to bed clips for educational purposes, criticism, commentary and noncommercial videos.
• Allowing computer owners to bypass the need for superficial security devices called dongles if the dongle not at the whole of longer works and cannot be replaced.
• Allowing blind people to break locks on electronic books to such a degree that they can use them with read-aloud software and similar aides.

Tony Clement, Canada’sitting minister of assiduity, related on Twitter that his province is reviewing the ruling to feel what the implications may subsist during Bill C-32, the copyright improve legislation he and Heritage Minister James Moore unveiled in June.

C-32 proposes enshrining in statute a number of everyday actions, such as unlocking a cellphone, using a PVR, or composition a imitate of a CD for backup purposes. However, breaking “technical protection measures” or digital locks oddity steady content or devices would trump all other rights granted by the agency of the poster, critics have reported.

Moore, who has called opponents of C-32 “radical extremists,” has defended the digital locks anticipation by adage it is that must be to bring Canada in line with its responsibilities through the World Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treaty it signed in 1996.

Prof. Michael Geist of the University of Ottawa, a chief copyright critic, before-mentioned the U.S. exemptions prove that C-32’s digital close fast provisions go sufficiently beyond what is expected of Canada under the treaty.

The proposed Canadian rules would be “far more restrictive” than flat the U.S. digital copyright act, he wrote onward his blog on Monday.

The government plans to initiate committee discussions on C-32 when Parliament resumes in the fall.

With files from The Associated Press

The Canadian Medical Association Journal is voicing summon to arms over the increasing popularity of very much caffeinated energy drinks among kids and teens.

“Caffeine-loaded vigor drinks have now crossed the calling from beverages to drugs delivered as tasty syrups,” senior editors of the journal said in any editorial released Monday.

Health Canada should require producers to use clearer labelling and should shoal promotion targeting the infant and teen market, the authors bandy words. They in addition suggest parents stand in want of to subsist informed about the caffeine content of the drinks their kids are consuming.

“We penury to discipline parents and kids that these things are addictive or are potentially addictive. They carry concerns by use,” Dr. Paul Hebert, the diary’s editor in chief and a contributor to the editorial, uttered in any interview.

The editorial says greater quantity energy drinks contain the caffeine equivalent of 10 cans of cola and notes that the personal estate of high concentrations of caffeine in kids are a reason since concern. Excess caffeine can cause nervousness, irritability, rapid heart reckon and sleeplessness, what one. itself can original a domino effect of problems in kids.

Children not targeted: beverage producers

But Refreshments Canada, an umbrella organized existence representing beverage producers, took exception to the editorial, suggesting it contains a number of inaccuracies.

Alan Grant, boss of communications, declared the cluster’s members — beverage heavyweights same Pepsi Cola and Coca Cola — don’t target children in their advertising.

“Our members adhere to responsible marketing practices,” he uttered.

A statement issued under the name of association president Justin Sherwood also disputed the journal’s intimation that energy-drink labelling needs to be updated to carry warnings about in posse side-effects from their consumption.

“These energy drinks are intended for adults and clearly indicate on the label that this category of potion is not recommended for children, pregnant or breastfeeding women and people who are perceptive to caffeine,” the statement said.

But others supported the clap of the journal’s editorial.

“Parents and independent experts know that kids need to eat more fruits, vegetables and totality grains and less white flour, added flatter and trans fat-laden oils and sugary soft drinks to have fit, healthy bodies and minds,” said Bill Jeffery, national co-ordinator for the Centre for Science in the Public Interest.

“Governments have to render a better do job-work of protecting kids from clever marketers who have no compunctions in all parts of flogging chemical buzzes and mildly addictive junk foods.”

Toronto dietitian Rosie Schwartz said parents need additional help figuring finished the sort of is in products same energy drinks, the kind of abet clearer labelling rules from Health Canada could provide.

“Kids with behavioural problems, with hyperactivity, kids who may acquire sleep problems and vein disorders and behave in a hyperactive scheme — how much of that is due to food and beverage choices?” Schwartz aforesaid.

Health Canada suggests kids age10 to 12 shouldn’t consume more than 85 milligrams of caffeine a day, which is about a can or sum of two units of cola. With younger children, the recommended maximum is even lower: 45 mg notwithstanding children age four to six and 62.5 mg against children epoch seven to nine.

The division doesn’confidentially have a definite recommendation for kids 13 and older, saying it doesn’confidentially get sufficiency data to calculate one. It suggests a weight-based approach be used, through teens not consuming more than 2.5 mg of caffeine per kilogram of body weight by means of sunshine.

&model; The Canadian Press, 2010