A study made by University of Massachusetts researchers showed that about 85 percent Canadian currency contain trace amounts of cocaine. Canada and the U.S. topped the list of nations with high levels of cocaine traces.

University of Massachusetts chemistry professor Yuegang Zuo, who led the research team, presented their findings Sunday at the 238th national meeting of the American Chemical Society.

Lightning struck the Brampton Centennial Park in Ontario on Wednesday afternoon, hitting a 26-year old woman and two boys aged 5 and 4. The three were hurt badly by the lightning, but are alive and confined in two hospitals.

The elder boy, 5-year old Kyus Caines and his playmate, a 4-year old who was not identified, are confined at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. The mother of Kyus, Dulce Caines, is at the Brampton Civic Hospital.

New York police officers are investigating how a foot severed above the right ankle ended up at the Casella Recycling transfer station in Seneca, New York. Among the theories being studied is that the foot might have originated from Toronto, where piles of uncollected garbage, due to a strike, accumulated.

The police theory is that the foot arrived between July 29 and Aug. 3, which was about the time Toronto city workers lifted their six-week strike and started to collect the city's trash. For that six-day period 136 garbage trucks dumped their contents at the Casella station, mostly from 15 counties from New York.

The canals of Mars may be a 19th Century myth, but the snow is for real.

Physicists studying data from the Mars Phoenix Lander that landed in the planet's arctic zone last year say water ice crystals were detected during the final days of the mission.

Four Canadian patients got on Wednesday new kidneys from live donors in a simultaneous kidney swap surgeries that took place in Vancouver, Edmonton and Toronto.

The operations were done at 10:30 a.m. at the Toronto General Hospital, University of Alberta Hospital and the St. Paul's Hospital. The organ donors were not related to the recipients of the kidney, although the relative of the recipient will still donate a kidney, which in turn is passed on to another stranger.