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Niagara Falls, Ont. - A man survived a plunge over Niagara Falls with only the clothes on his back, witnesses said, the first person known to have done it without safety devices and lived. Witnesses described seeing the man float past on his back Monday in the swift Niagara River, then go headfirst over the 180-foot waterfall and pull himself onto the rocks below. The man was hospitalized in stable condition Tuesday. Ottawa - A new report by Statistics Canada indicates city dwellers are more healthy than their rural cousins. "Health risk behaviours, such as smoking and excessive weight problems, were significantly higher in small-town regions, rural regions and northern areas of the country," the study says. Ottawa - Jean Chretien was prepared to dismiss a narrow Yes vote in Quebec's 1995 sovereignty referendum while at the same time moving in troops to protect federal buildings, says a new biography of the prime minister. "I don't want to be the last prime minister of Canada," Chretien told his staff, author Lawrence Martin writes in Iron Man: The Defiant Reign of Jean Chretien. Chretien denied Tuesday that he was prepared to deploy soldiers in Quebec, but acknowledged he'd prepared a speech in case the sovereigntist side won. "The soldiers thing is bullshit," Chretien, speaking in French, said at the APEC conference in Bangkok.
