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Ottawa - The United States is using subtle pressure and threats to push Canada into joining its missile defence system, a leading American opponent of the plan said Friday. Ted Postol, a physicist and MIT professor said Washington wants Canada on board and isn't reluctant to push. "I don't find it odd that Canada would be concerned about this, because they are a partner that is being pulled into this pretty much without being asked," he said. Natuashish, Nfld. ? A 21-year-old man hanged himself last weekend in the fourth suicide in this troubled Innu community in three months. The man was the nephew of former chief Simeon Tshakapesh, who has been demanding action from Health Canada to prevent such deaths. "It's an epidemic," Tshakapesh said. "I am very scared about what's going to happen next week." Toronto - A nine-year-old Afghan boy who came to Canada for life-saving surgery was breathing on his own Saturday after undergoing heart valve surgery a day earlier. "He is awake and alert," said Alastair Hodinott, an administrator and spokesman for Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children of Djamshid Popal. Toronto - Ontario Health Minister George Smitherman denied Saturday that the province is trying to bribe doctors into cutting prescription drug costs to the poor and elderly, saying the proposal is meant to curb the over-prescription of medication to seniors.
