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Halifax - Nova Scotia's hospitals will be overburdened this winter because the province doesn't have enough flu shots to meet the demand, a Liberal MLA warns. More people may end up in emergency rooms because the province decided to limit its remaining vaccine to people who face the highest risk, Liberal MLA Dave Wilson said Wednesday. The province, which ordered 340,000 doses of the vaccine, refused to apologize for initially urging all Nova Scotians to get a flu shot, before restricting supplies when they ran low. Vancouver - Convicted bomb-maker Inderjit Singh Reyat had a bigger role than he admitted in blowing up an Air India jet, a Crown prosecutor told a Vancouver court. Gordon Matei made the charge Tuesday as he began the Crown's three-week long closing arguments in the case of Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri, who are accused of plotting to put bombs on two 747 jets in 1985. One blew up on an Air India flight, killing all 329 passengers and crew, most of them Canadians. Toronto - A plan to lift the mandatory retirement laws in the province of Ontario may not apply to older workers already forced off the job, the provincial labour minister said yesterday. Ontario Labour Minister Chris Bentley warned that it might be too hard for a company to rehire retired workers if their jobs have already been filled.
