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Quebec - Pope John Paul II has announced that Quebec City will host a major Catholic conference in 2008, and he hopes to attend if his health permits. The conference of about 15,000 people will be held in conjunction with the city's 400th anniversary celebrations. The aging pontiff last visited Canada for World Youth Day celebrations in 2002. He rallied from poor health due to Parkinson's disease to attend the Toronto event, which drew 200,000 young Catholics from around the world Fredericton - Striking hospital workers in New Brunswick announced a tentative agreement with the province Monday morning. Eight hundred members of CUPE Local 1252 walked off the job Sept. 27 in a dispute with the government over wages. The union, which represents about 6,500 people across the province, had limited its job action to Premier Bernard Lord's Moncton riding, forcing the cancellation of hundreds of surgeries and routine tests at two area hospitals. Ottawa - Canada could use its surplus of flu vaccine to help the U.S. with its shortage, federal Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh said. In recent days, there have been reports of Americans coming across the border to get flu shots in the wake of news that Chiron Corp., the drug company that makes about half of all the flu vaccine for the U.S., said it would not be producing any more this flu season.
