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One of the babies is breathing with the help of special equipment, while the other boy is in the special care unit. Doctors say both are doing well. The twins will be kept in hospital until they reach a specified weight and can breathe on their own.

Hayer’s case has raised many ethical questions about how far to push the frontiers of medical science, even from the Calgary specialist who took on her case.  “We can do so much but the question is, should we do it just because we can do it?” said obstetrician Dr. Colin Birch, who was excited by the challenge but says he has yet to reconcile the social implications.

“It all sounds very fine when this age group — isn’t it fantastic what medical technology can do, how we’re stretching the boundaries and everything else — but there’s so much more involved in this. It’s not just having the babies and being born,” he told CBC News.

“There’s not just one generation gap here, there’s two generation gaps. They’re really what would be like the age of grandparents.”

Hayer, who is originally from India, tried for years to get pregnant with her husband, but she miscarried three times.  After becoming a permanent resident in Canada, an obstetrician gynecologist diagnosed a problem with Ranjit’s womb and recommended surgery. She had the surgery in Calgary but she still couldn’t conceive.

Woman got pregnant through fertility treatment in India

About 10 years ago, the couple paid a doctor in India for in vitro fertilization, but he took off with their money.

The couple spent years working and saving up their money in Canada. After being turned down for IVF in this country because of her age, Hayer returned to India for the treatment using donor eggs last year — and got pregnant with triplets.

“I thought it was a joke because the referral said 60-year-old patient with triplets, and I thought one of my colleagues or somebody’s just playing jokes with me or up to mischief and then actually the patient turned up in my office,” recalled Birch.

One of Hayer’s embryos had to be terminated for medical reasons and the pregnancy with twins left her with high blood pressure and diabetes.

She also had a condition called placenta previa — where the placenta is attached to the bottom of the uterus and covers part or all of the cervix and can cause severe bleeding. Hayer spent the last four weeks in hospital so doctors could deliver the babies at a moment’s notice if necessary.

Hayer began to hemorrhage this week so Birch performed an emergency C-section to deliver the twins. The bleeding was so severe he had to take out the woman’s uterus. Hayer was admitted to the intensive care unit, where she required blood transfusions to stabilize her condition.

According to doctors, Hayer said she’s just happy she gets to be a mother. She said she has enough family support to help through what might be a tough time.

“I couldn’t imagine if I was 65 having two five-year-olds running around crazily. The energy to do that is incredible,” said Birch.

With files from Dr. Brian Goldman

The Vanguard has learned from several people connected to the event that Yarmouth is expected to be named as the host of the 13th annual event.

Scott Long, executive director of Music Nova Scotia, would not confirm or deny the news, however he said an announcement would come sometime early next week about the host site of this year’s event.

Nova Scotia Music Week is a four-day event celebrating music, musicians and the industry in the province. The event features live performances, tradeshows, workshops and an awards show and gala.

Past host sites include Halifax, Liverpool and Pictou County. The event in Liverpool in 2007 attracted around 500 people.

Yarmouth has been a hotbed of musical activity for years, but much of that has remained a well-kept secret unless musicians left to make their mark other places.

A local organizing committee was established last spring in an attempt to bring the event to Yarmouth and it appears those efforts were successful.

This will go down in history..and i’m happy to know that i’ve seen this… here in Canada.

The eyes of atheist and humanist groups across Canada are on Toronto, where a group is proposing to plaster ads that question the existence of God on the city’s transit buses.

The Toronto-based Freethought Association of Canada wants to buy bus ads that say: “There is probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.”

The message comes from a campaign recently rolled out in the United Kingdom, sparking similar campaigns in Washington, D.C. and the Spanish cities of Barcelona and Madrid.

Atheist groups in Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver are keeping a close watch on Toronto’s efforts.

“We’re going to see how that flies,” said Cliff Erasmus, co-ordinator for the Center for Inquiry in the Calgary area.

Atheist, humanists and agnostics should have the same opportunities to voice their opinions as people of faith, without discrimination, Erasmus said.

There are a lot of misconceptions about what it means to be an atheist, he added.

“For some reason, we’re labelled as devil worshippers and all sorts of nasty stuff,” he said.

Those misconceptions are part of the reason for the campaign, said Katie Kish of the Freethought Association.

“So often you see (atheists) portrayed as kind of gloomy and angry. We really wanted to counter that stereotype,” said Kish.

The other goal, said Kish, is opening a dialogue with religious groups.

“I think discussion is really important and that’s what I’m hoping will happen from this campaign.”

A spokesman for the Montreal chapter of the Center for Inquiry said there could be conversations about Toronto’s concept if it works well.

For Guillaume Loignon, the ads would provide an alternative for non-believers in Montreal since there are numerous publicity campaigns run by religious organizations in Quebec.

At least one faith group appears to be open to the ads.

“If it helps to foster dialogue in our society, that might actually be a good thing,” Rev. Susan Johnson, national bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, said in an interview from Winnipeg.

The British brainchild behind the ads says she’s pleased that the message could soon spread to Canada.

“As long as it’s a peaceful campaign,” Ariane Sherine said from London.

Sherine started the campaign after noticing ads on London buses that led curious readers to a website that suggested non-Christians would spend eternity in hell.

Initially, Sherine hoped to raise enough money to post ads on 30 buses in London. The campaign received enough donations to buy ads on 800 buses across the U.K.

In Toronto, the group has launched http://atheistbus.ca/, a website through which they hope to collect between $6,000 and $7,000 to purchase the bus ads. Hours after it was set up Friday, the group had received $6,800, according to its website.

The ad has been submitted for approval to CBS Outdoor, the firm that handles advertising for the Toronto Transit Commission, said Kish.

Though they’ve settled on the message for the campaign – it’s identical to the slogan used in the U.K. – the actual layout is still being worked out. They want “something happy, something bright,” Kish said.

If approved, the month-long campaign would start in the spring.

The father who is 54 was not named but he sure made a lot of effort to make himself look like his son, according to his identity card – the police found out.  And how was he found out..?? the examinar thought he looked older than his ID.  So what did the father do.. when he got busted..??  he apologized and confessed.  Looks like the father who wanted his son .. to work with him selling drugs needed to take an exam to get a license to handle drugs and his son never knew his father was planning to do that.  Looks like good intention.. but really bad idea.  The father will be charged, lets hope he doesn’t lose his own drug license.