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Calgary - A newborn baby discovered Tuesday night in a garbage bag in Calgary is in the care of child welfare authorities while his 15-year-old mother is at home recovering. The unnamed boy will go into foster care when he is released from hospital. Police say the newborn's life was saved when a woman out walking her dog found the baby in a garbage bag in a Calgary driveway. The girl gave birth alone in her room while her 12-year-old brother and three-year-old sister watched television downstairs, police say. The girl's mother, who police say has no support from the children's father, was at work during the birth. She didn't know her daughter was pregnant and has offered to take in the baby. Saskatoon - Five dogs have died in Saskatoon during the past week after eating poisoned food left in city parks, the third such incident in the past four years. Each of the animals suffered strychnine poisoning after eating wieners or sausages filled with rat poison. Seven poisoning cases have been confirmed since last Thursday, all in or near the city's Grosvenor Park. Whitehorse - At least two First Nations languages in the Yukon are on the verge of extinction and more will follow unless something is done, according to a new study by Yukon's Aboriginal Language Services. The report's conclusions, which come after years of work and fluency assessments, says the Han and Tagish languages are in the most dire state.
