Drowning is the second leading cause of injury-related death to Canadian children ages one to four. Do backyard pools ...
The London area's top public health official wants to shut a local gate on one of Canada's biggest child killers -- backyard pool drownings.

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Doc targets backyard pools
The London area?s top public health official wants to shut a local gate on one of Canada?s biggest child killers ? backyard pool drownings.

Saving fuel, spreading misery
FOSTER, R.I. - The bane of Steve Charette's once-bucolic existence is partly hidden behind a roadside stand of trees across the street from his house. It's little more than the size of a shed, topped by a short smokestack with a stubby nose in this uncrowded corner of rural Rhode Island.