An audit on the Canada Revenue Agency has revealed that it issued at least $3 million in salaries to employees who no loner work for the agency.

The CRA has been making the erroneous payments since 1999, with the number of involved former employees going up over the years. In fiscal 2005-06, there were 1,922 ex-workers who continued enjoying the salaries even if they were no longer officially connected. In fiscal 2006-07, their number went up to 2,258.

Physical, emotional, financial and sexual abuse incidents involving elders in Massachusetts are on the rise partly due to the difficult times residents face.

Dale Mitchell, executive director of Ethos, a nonprofit agency based in Boston, explained that the bulk of cases they have witnessed are linked to overload. As residents lose their jobs, witness their investments shrinks and suffer from foreclosed homes, they often take out on senior citizens who live with them the stress these situations have created.

Physical, emotional, financial and sexual abuse incidents involving elders in Massachusetts are on the rise partly due to the difficult times residents face.

Dale Mitchell, executive director of Ethos, a nonprofit agency based in Boston, explained that the bulk of cases they have witnessed are linked to overload. As residents lose their jobs, witness their investments shrinks and suffer from foreclosed homes, they often take out on senior citizens who live with them the stress these situations have created.

A leading Quebec provincial leader is again agitating residents to push for independence from Canada.

Bloc leader Gilles Duceppe announced Saturday at the party meeting in St. Hyacinthe the revival of the separatism movement following the 94.8 percent vote of confidence he received from party members.

Five Atlanta fire stations had to close on Super Bowl Sunday after 27 firefighters called in sick, more than double the usual number.

All the sick firefighters at the same time were not viewed as a coordinated situation, or a political statement, but more a situation of the firefighters simply being run down and susceptible to becoming sick.