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Politics Majed Al-Ansari, an adviser to the prime minister of Qatar and an official spokesperson for the country’s minister of foreign affairs, says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s categorical rejection of a two-state solution cannot be accepted. Netanyahu says he told U.S. he opposes a Palestinian state in any post-warContinue Reading

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Health 1st-ever experiment shows how pigs might one day help people with liver failureIn a potential bridge to transplant approach, U.S. surgeons successfully externally attached a pig liver to a brain-dead human body and watched it successfully filter blood. Scientists transplanting from pigs whose organs have been genetically modified to beContinue Reading

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Nerene Virgin, a former actor, public broadcaster, anti-racism advocate and educator also known for her trailblazing work, has died in Burlington, Ont., at age 77. Virgin, a fifth-generation Hamiltonian, was a teacher before gaining prominence for playing Jodie on the TVO children’s show Today’s Special in the 1980s. She was also host of the CTV publicContinue Reading