Lima - Canada and Colombia signed a free trade agreement in Lima as their leaders prepared to attend an Asia-Pacific summit there.

"We are taking a very important step at a moment of great difficulty because of the world financial crisis," said Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, who with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper witnessed the signing of the pact Friday by the two countries' trade ministers.

Both Uribe and Harper called on the US Congress to ratify a US-Colombia free trade pact, which was signed long ago.

Toronto, Nov 20 : An Air Canada flight attendant helped land a plane after the co-pilot suffered an emotional breakdown over the Atlantic Ocean, according to Ireland''s Air Accident Investigation Unit.

The Boeing 767 jet carrying 146 passengers and nine crewmembers was headed from Toronto to London''s Heathrow Airport on 28 January 2008, when the co-pilot suffered an emotional breakdown.

The Flight AC848''s captain, whose pilot position is also known as ‘commander’, asked the senior cabin supervisor to take the co-pilot away from the controls, leaving the flight attendant, who had a commercial pilot''s licence, to assist in a landing.

The plane was diverted to Shannon Airport, about 200 kilometres southwest of Dublin.

According to disciplinary panel, the Toronto nurse, who admitted to having sex with a patient while she worked there, will lose her license. Formerly employed at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, the nurse admitted in an agreed statement of facts presented today at her disciplinary hearing that "she sexually abused the patient by engaging in sexual intercourse... among other things" during the man's inpatient and outpatient treatment. She was fired in 2007 when the affair came to light and the five-member disciplinary panel will now order a formal reprimand and recommend revocation of her professional license by the College of Nurses of Ontario.

Toronto, November 19 : A 44-year-old stripper has filed charges against a Mississauga strip club claiming she was sacked because of her age.

Kimberlee Ouwroulis, who had been a waitress before she began stripping at the age of 40, launched her complaint to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario against the club ‘New Locomotion’, reports the National Post.

Kimberlee revealed that when she asked her then manager the reason for being fired, he offered to provide her solace by saying ‘another older girl had been fired the same day’.

Going by the latest figures released, Canada's health care spending is growing faster than the economy, outpacing inflation and population growth. Representing 10.7 per cent of the gross domestic product, health care spending has reached $171.9 billion or $5,170 per person, the highest share ever recorded in Canada.

When it comes to province-wise per-person spending, the figures for Alberta and Manitoba stand at $5,730 and $5,555 respectively. The provinces that spend the lowest are Quebec at $4,653 and British Columbia at $5,093.

New Delhi, Nov. 18 : Joseph Caron has assumed charge as Canada''s new High Commissioner to India. High Commissioner Caron presented his credentials to President Pratibha Patil on November 10. He will present his credentials as Canada’s Ambassador to Nepal on November 21 in Kathmandu.

On the occasion of the presentation, Caron stated, “I am pleased to see the strength of the bilateral relationship and the people-to-people ties arising from our history of immigration, and welcome future cooperation between Canada and India. It is in this spirit that I officially undertake my role as Canada’s High Commissioner to India.”