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• A cyberattack on the Canadian government, traced to computer servers in China, has given foreign hackers access to classified information at the Finance Department and Treasury Board as a result of stealing the key passwords that unlock the data systems. (CBC)

• A $5.50 head tax to enter the U.S. by air has been proposed for 2012 by the Obama administration, which would generate an estimated $110 million annually to pay for border security, $90 million of which would be paid by 16 million Canadian travellers. (Postmedia News)

• Michael Ignatieff is "campaign ready" for a May 2 election, according to federal Liberals speculating on a date when Canadians might go to the polls, based on speculation that the Conservative government will fall after a non-confidence vote over the Mar. 22 budget. (Toronto Star)

• The average family debt in Canada has now hit $100,000, and the debt-to-income ratio is at a record 150 per cent,

Sean Aiken speaking to students from Scott Collegiate in ReginaIt is not uncommon for Canadians to graduate from university without knowing what they want to do with their lives.

But instead of backpacking across Europe, joining the family business or taking a year off, B.C.'s Sean Aiken chose a different path toward self discovery: 52 jobs in 52 weeks.

Working one job per week for an entire year, Aiken began the One Week Job adventure across Canada and the U.S. in February 2007. Though he had earned a degree in business administration from Capilano University two years earlier, graduation had left him pondering his life's direction.

"I remember all the pressure that I had put on myself to come out of school and try to figure out what to do with my life," said Aiken, 29, during a presentation at Martin Collegiate in Regina that appeared in a Vancouver Sun story. "I felt like I was the only one stuck in that situation."

Aiken earned more than $20,000 during his travels, donating every cent to the ONE/Make Poverty History charity.

He took jobs from

A Toronto couple may have the world's greatest love story, at least according to Live with Regis and Kelly.

Howard and Nancy Kleinberg appeared on the U.S. talk show Tuesday as part of a Valentine's week segment to share their story of surviving a Nazi death camp together, being separated and finding each other again in Toronto.

Their story about love and survival begins when both Jewish teenagers were imprisoned in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

When the camp was liberated on April 15, 1945, Howard, 18, was barely alive and buried under a pile of corpses. Nancy, 16, saw his body move.

"We went into the men's side, all you saw were corpses," Nancy said in a pre-taped interview before the show.

Howard thought he was going to die when he heard Nancy's voice. "I heard this young girl say, 'You know he's still alive, we'll try and save him,' " he said.

Another woman with Nancy at the time told her to leave him as he was almost dead, but she refused. "I said, 'He's not dead, if we

Tim Hortons is poised to give away a record amount of free donuts in the next few weeks.

And, it may not be because they expect a surge in sales for the 25th year of Roll Up the Rim to Win.

Rather, it seems like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are the reason why the number of available food prizes in the contest have spiked from 31 million in 2010 to more than 47 million for 2011.

With more customers using social media to keep public tabs on how few of their Tim Hortons coffee cup purchases have generated a prize, especially once Twitter gained popular traction in 2009, it has become increasingly apparent a relative small number of rims turn up a winner.

The chain made it clear last year the odds of winning any prize was 1-in-9, and has claimed those odds are audited daily while producing the Roll Up the Rim to Win cups, which will make their annual debut across Canada on Monday.

Bigger prizes for the 2011 contest include Toyota Matrix cars, Panasonic 3-D televisions, Napoleon barbecues,

Bottled water has been banned at city-owned sites in London, Ont. since 2008. And, despite an effort by Nestlé to have the policy reversed, the city upheld its decision.

Mayor Joe Fontana, who was elected last fall after 22 years in federal office, was among three politicians at a committee meeting who backed the company's argument that users of municipal facilities were being denied a healthier option than cans of soda pop.

Yet, three London city councillors reinforced the view that water fountains were dispensing water for free, without the estimated one-quarter to one-half of plastic bottles ending up in the trash rather than recycling bins. A tie vote meant the ban remains intact.

"Denying people the opportunity to buy water is philosophically dumb to me," Fontana said after a presentation from a Nestlé official, who likely wouldn't have had any greater luck attempting to overturn similar bans in the City of Toronto and all of Nova Scotia.

The Polaris Institute, established in

As the U.S. and Canada prepare to test the North American Aerospace Defence Command (Norad) system over both countries Thursday, it's interesting to note the organization once had a hand in arming our country with nuclear weapons.

Not typically taught in schools are Canada's links to the development of nuclear weapons and the fact we had surface-to-air nuclear missiles in Ontario and Quebec dating back to 1963.

Known as the Bomarc Missile Program, the weapons were brought into Canada by former prime minister John Diefenbaker. The controversial deal with the United States killed the infamous Avro Arrow interceptor because it was deemed unnecessary.

The Bomarc was designed to fly into incoming Soviet bombers near the Arctic and detonate its payload before the Russians could dump their nukes on Canadian and U.S. industrial complexes.

After much debate about whether to equip the missiles with nuclear or conventional warheads, which split Diefenbaker's cabinet, his government  was

With more people constantly pulling the virtual lever on smartphones, with pretty good odds of a fresh text message or news update as the potential payoff, how can a VLT possibly compete?

The need to update the digital lottery machines, which typically have a seven-year life span, has spurred the Alberta Liquor and Gaming Commission to seek new games for its network of 6,000 terminals in 1,000 locations.

Critics have inevitably expressed concern about whether the goal of rebooting VLTs, after an estimated $200 million decrease in Alberta gaming revenues to $1.3 billion in 2010, will come at the expense of social responsibility.

Pop-up messages to remind players about how much money they've spent, or cards that limit the amount they can spend in a day, aren't considered compelling enough to curb the behaviour of gambling addicts.

While the recession was blamed for the decline, Alberta Gaming Research Institute specialist Gerry Smith found almost 40 per cent of VLT revenue comes from

The supercomputer known as Watson managed to destroy Jeopardy! superstars during the second round of play, but had no clue that Toronto was not a U.S. city.

Flesh-and-blood contestant Brad Rutter entered the second day of the three-day competition tied with Watson while fellow air-breathing contestant Ken Jennings was only a few thousand dollars behind giving some hope to humankind.

But on Day 2, the computer took off, buzzing in first almost all the time opening a massive lead of more than $30,000 going into Final Jeopardy! But that was when Watson finally stumbled.

The category: U.S. cities.

The question: "This U.S. city's largest airport is named for a famous World War II hero, its second largest for a famous World War II battle."

All-time Jeopardy! money winner Rutter and 74-game winner Jennings both answered correctly with Chicago, but Watson wrote down: "What is Toronto???" as the audience gasped.

Host Alex Trebek, a native of Sudbury, Ont., read the answer slowly as if he was