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The scientific director and vice president of research at Lawson Research Institute has left the organization, a week after it emerged that clandestine cardiac tests were being performed on dogs at St. Joseph's Hospital, prompting public outcry.

Her departure comes days after St. Joseph's publicly announced it would immediately end research studies on dogs, following consultations with the province. Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Monday that he was "deeply disturbed" by the research.

During an announcement in Windsor on Tuesday, Ford went further, promising to introduce legislation that would ban testing on certain animals in the province, prompting concerns about political interference in scientific research.

St. Joseph's initially defended the research after the Investigative Journalism Bureau (IJB), based out of the University of Toronto's Dalla Lana School of Public Health, revealed dogs had been used for years as part of a heart study at Lawson.

Published in partnership with Postmedia, the report said researchers from Lawson had been inducing heart attacks as long as three hours in dogs and puppies as part of research aimed at accurately imaging post-heart attack injury and healing.

CBC News has not independently verified the reports from IJB.

Sourced from U.S. breeders, IJB said the dogs, some as young as 10 months, would be wheeled into the hospital in blanket-covered crates and taken to a lab on the hospital's sixth floor. Loud music would be blared to drown out their barking.

The dogs would be euthanized, and their hearts removed for further study, the report said, citing two whistleblowers.

St. Joseph's has said the research was conducted to "learn more about how to accurately image post-heart attack injury and healing that we cannot yet decipher using other models," including artificial intelligence.

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Indonesia's Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki has erupted, spewing an ash cloud more than 10 kilometres into the sky.

The country's volcanic agency said the volcano erupted at 8:48pm on Friday night, local time.

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Canadians' electronic health records need more protections to prevent foreign entities from accessing patient data, according to commentary in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

"Canadian privacy law is badly outdated," said Michael Geist, law professor and Canada Research Chair in internet and e-commerce law at the University of Ottawa and co-author of the commentary. "We're now talking about decades since the last major change."

Geist says electronic medical records systems from clinics and hospitals — containing patients' personal health information — are often controlled by U.S. companies. The data is encrypted and primarily stored on cloud servers in Canada, but because those are owned by American companies, they are subject to American laws.

For example, Geist points out, the U.S. passed the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act in 2018, which can compel companies to disclose customer information for criminal investigations, even if it's stored outside the United States. The law allows for bilateral agreements with the U.S. and other countries. Canada and the U.S. began negotiations in 2022.

The companies have "Canadian laws that may say they've got to provide appropriate protections for that data," Geist said. "But they may have U.S. law that could compel them to disclose that information."

Canada's laws, Geist says, have not yet found a way to respond to that.

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