Average Canadian gasoline prices are less than a penny a litre away from their all-time highs, according to a weekly pump-price survey released Tuesday.

The national average cost of a litre of regular gas rose to $1.252 a litre, up 2.2 cents from last week, Calgary-based MJ Ervin & Associates said.

The record high in MJ Ervin’s weekly look at pump prices came in September 2005, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The average price then: $1.26 a litre.

The most recent survey which looks at prices at 400 stations across the country finds that a litre of regular is above $1.20 in all but two of the 60 cities surveyed. The cheapest gas was found in Kingston, Ont., at $1.146 and St. Catharines, Ont., at $1.199 a litre.

In Yellowknife and Labrador City, on the other hand, motorists are paying just over $1.41 a litre.

Gasbuddy.com a web site that tracks gas prices across North America said the average price in Canada was $1.263 on Tuesday.

During Tuesday’s question period, NDP Leader Jack Layton accused the government of doing nothing to control high gas prices.

“You cannot trust this government to respond to this crisis,” Layton told the House. But Prime Minsiter Stephen Harper dismissed the charge, saying that while other parties want higher gas taxes, his government has lowered the GST by two percentage points to return more money to Canadian households.

“It’s obviously absolutely correct to observe that the price of oil and gas is rising,” Harper said. “But you know, Mr. Speaker the best the opposition can come up with is higher gas taxes. That’s obviously not the right policy.”

U.S. gasoline prices are at a record $3.60 US per U.S. gallon. They’re already above $4 US in some areas.

World oil prices the biggest factor in the rising price of gas retreated from Monday’s record highs to about $115 US a barrel, down $3. But oil prices remain five times higher than were just six years ago.

The oil boom has helped to drive profits at the world’s biggest energy companies to breathtaking heights. On Tuesday, Royal Dutch Shell and BP reported total profits of almost $17 billion US for the first quarter $9.1 billion for Shell and $7.6 billion for BP.

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Saying that “everyone has the right to be treated, and die, with dignity,” the World Health Organization on Monday issued its first guide to planning end-of-life care.

The 51-page document was aimed not at individual doctors, but at national health ministers, said one of its authors, Dr. Cecilia Sep?lveda, palliative care expert with the health organization.

It contains formulas for calculating how many people in a country are in need of such care.

It also outlines typical obstacles to providing it: national laws that make it hard for pharmacists to stock powerful painkillers, lack of training for doctors and nurses, and fears of addiction on the part of patients.

It also cites countries that offer good end-of-life care despite national poverty ? mostly by having it done at home, by relatives given modest amounts of training.

The “most impressive” programs that Sep?lveda said she had found were in Uganda and in the state of Kerala in India. In both places, political leaders and medical doctors had combined their efforts.

In 2005, more than seven million people died of cancer, and 70 percent of them were in poor or middle-income countries where there was little money for diagnosis or treatment, the health organization report said. Unless a cure is found for cancer, more than 11 million people will die of it each year by 2030.

Although the report was initially written for countries preparing national cancer plans, it is also useful in countries with many people dying of AIDS or experiencing any other slow, painful death, Sep?lveda said.

A Canadian-made heated skate blade touted as a means of boosting velocity was approved Tuesday for testing in the National Hockey League.

The Therma Blade will be used by as many as 10 NHL players in games and practices, said the blade’s inventor, Tory Weber of Calgary. The NHL will use this testing phase to examine possible safety issues and the blades’ effect on the ice to determine whether they should be used more widely within the league. Calgarian Tory Weber invented the Therma Blade, a blade that heats the ice and reduces friction.
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A battery in the back of the skate blade heats up to 5C, helping to reduce friction and push the wearer forward with less work, Weber said.

“It’s very simple technology. Awarm blade basically creates a thin film of water and melts the ice,” Weber said. Skaters that use the heated blades, which will retail for about $399, find it’s much like skating on ice that has been freshly groomed by a Zamboni, he added.

Hockey legend Wayne Gretzky has endorsed the blades.

“[This will] really take the sport of hockey to another level,” he said in a video statement shown during a press conference in Toronto on Tuesday. “Not since getting rid of the old blades that we wore in the ’70s that Bobby Orr and Lanny McDonald wore this is the first time we’re going to see a significant change in the blade in probably 30 years.”

About 150 players across Canada have tested the blades in pre-launch testing.

Weber said the idea for the blades came to him as when he was studying thermodynamics the study of the transfer of heat one cold February morning.

“I went outside to get the newspaper and my running shoes were sitting on the heat register and I slid them on,” he said. “My hot runners [came into] contact with the icy stairs [and] caused my feet to slide out from under me, and the rest was history.”

The blades, which are manufactured north of Quebec City, were created in 2001.

Average Canadian gasoline prices are less than a penny a litre away from their all-time highs, according to a weekly pump-price survey released Tuesday.

The national average cost of a litre of regular gas rose to $1.252 a litre, up 2.2 cents from last week, Calgary-based MJ Ervin & Associates said.

The record high in MJ Ervin’s weekly look at pump prices came in September 2005, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The average price then: $1.26 a litre.

The most recent survey which looks at prices at 400 stations across the country finds that a litre of regular is above $1.20 in all but two of the 60 cities surveyed. The cheapest gas was found in Kingston, Ont., at $1.146 and St. Catharines, Ont., at $1.199 a litre.

In Yellowknife and Labrador City, on the other hand, motorists are paying just over $1.41 a litre.

Gasbuddy.com a web site that tracks gas prices across North America said the average price in Canada was $1.263 on Tuesday.

During Tuesday’s question period, NDP Leader Jack Layton accused the government of doing nothing to control high gas prices.

“You cannot trust this government to respond to this crisis,” Layton told the House. But Prime Minsiter Stephen Harper dismissed the charge, saying that while other parties want higher gas taxes, his government has lowered the GST by two percentage points to return more money to Canadian households.

“It’s obviously absolutely correct to observe that the price of oil and gas is rising,” Harper said. “But you know, Mr. Speaker the best the opposition can come up with is higher gas taxes. That’s obviously not the right policy.”

U.S. gasoline prices are at a record $3.60 US per U.S. gallon. They’re already above $4 US in some areas.

World oil prices the biggest factor in the rising price of gas retreated from Monday’s record highs to about $115 US a barrel, down $3. But oil prices remain five times higher than were just six years ago.

The oil boom has helped to drive profits at the world’s biggest energy companies to breathtaking heights. On Tuesday, Royal Dutch Shell and BP reported total profits of almost $17 billion US for the first quarter $9.1 billion for Shell and $7.6 billion for BP.

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Average Canadian gasoline prices are less than a penny a litre away from their all-time highs, according to a weekly pump-price survey released Tuesday.

The national average cost of a litre of regular gas rose to $1.252 a litre, up 2.2 cents from last week, Calgary-based MJ Ervin & Associates said.

The record high in MJ Ervin’s weekly look at pump prices came in September 2005, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The average price then: $1.26 a litre.

The most recent survey which looks at prices at 400 stations across the country finds that a litre of regular is above $1.20 in all but two of the 60 cities surveyed. The cheapest gas was found in Kingston, Ont., at $1.146 and St. Catharines, Ont., at $1.199 a litre.

In Yellowknife and Labrador City, on the other hand, motorists are paying just over $1.41 a litre.

Gasbuddy.com a web site that tracks gas prices across North America said the average price in Canada was $1.263 on Tuesday.

During Tuesday’s question period, NDP Leader Jack Layton accused the government of doing nothing to control high gas prices.

“You cannot trust this government to respond to this crisis,” Layton told the House. But Prime Minsiter Stephen Harper dismissed the charge, saying that while other parties want higher gas taxes, his government has lowered the GST by two percentage points to return more money to Canadian households.

“It’s obviously absolutely correct to observe that the price of oil and gas is rising,” Harper said. “But you know, Mr. Speaker the best the opposition can come up with is higher gas taxes. That’s obviously not the right policy.”

U.S. gasoline prices are at a record $3.60 US per U.S. gallon. They’re already above $4 US in some areas.

World oil prices the biggest factor in the rising price of gas retreated from Monday’s record highs to about $115 US a barrel, down $3. But oil prices remain five times higher than were just six years ago.

The oil boom has helped to drive profits at the world’s biggest energy companies to breathtaking heights. On Tuesday, Royal Dutch Shell and BP reported total profits of almost $17 billion US for the first quarter $9.1 billion for Shell and $7.6 billion for BP.

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